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Show -75- The States of Arizona, California, and Nevada are authorized to enter into an agreement, which shall provide. Then go ahead and put down the provisions of the Hayden amendment, and at the end of the Hayden amendment put in a seventh paragraph, which shall read: Said agreement to take effect upon the ratification of the Colorado River compact by Arizona, California, and Nevada. The Constitution requires that before States may enter into an agreement they shall be authorized by Congress to enter into the agreement. I start out by having Congress, by this act, authorize an agreement. I make the agreement specific by reason of the fact that otherwise it might be held that they would have to come back to Congress for approval of the agreement they entered into. They approve a specific agreement in advance and authorize it. The terms are set out. It does not take effect unless all three States ratify the Colorado River compact. Mr. Hayden. It should not. Mr. Pittman. It should not. It does not require California to enter into that agreement. It does not require Arizona to enter into that agreement. It does not require Nevada to enter into that agreement. If they do not enter into that agreement, then we have the bill as it stands. Whatever States do not ratify are not bound by this measure. That, then, becomes an optional matter and not a coercive matter. I am confident, however, that if the State of Arizona were willing to enter into such an agreement she would, of course, ratify the Colorado River compact, and if she were not willing to ratify the Colorado River compact she would not want California bound by these conditions, because she would not be in the 7-State compact, and would have nothing to do with it. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |