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Show 86 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Dam," said California Congressman Carl Hinshaw,63 "Arizona emerged with a cash pay-off of $300,000 a year for fifty years, which is paid by the power con- sumers of California. Out of the All American Canal Project in California, Arizona got a new canal to serve the Yuma project in Arizona. California pays for it. Arizona pays nothing. Out of the Parker Dam project on the Colorado River, Arizona got the right to use the dam to divert water to Arizona and half the power pro- duced by the dam. California paid the entire cost of the dam. "If Arizona wants consideration of her equities on the Colorado River, let her sometime start to practice equity." Poulson inserted in the Congressional Record a state- ment of Samuel B. Morris, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power,65 in which Morris said of the controversy: "There is no compromise possible now, and none of our rights on the river can be relinquished except under the persuasion of a decree from the Supreme Court." Congressman Richard F. Harless of Arizona 66 struck back with the charge that California public relations agents were using the tactics of Hitler. He cried: "Do not be deceived by the dishonest artifice used by certain California interests in their merciless attempt to raid and invade the fundamental rights of a little state. In their depraved endeavor to rape a little state, they publicly turn the accusing finger on my state of Arizona, while backstage they are preparing to make a grand steal." "The state of Arizona is spreading the propaganda and fighting the issue of having it [the controversy] |
