AZ vs. CA:20 California Exhibits, Vol. XX; Nos. 4050-4092

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-28- Public statements by officials of the Department of the Interior in recent years with the approval of the Department are in conformity with this practice. (1) Secretary Ickes' letter of June 2, 1944, to Senator Bailey, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, commenting on the Flood Control Act of 1944 in the form in which it had been passed by the House of Representatives (H. R. 4485, 78th Congress, 2d Session). (2) Statement in the report of the Regional Director, Region 2, Bureau of Reclamation, dated December 1, 1947, in his "Report on comprehensive plan for water resource development, Central Valley Basin, California." (3) Answers to certain questions in the so-called "Barnes Questionnaire." (1) Secretary Ickes' letter of June 2, 1944 Pursuant to a request received from Senator Bailey, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, on June 2, 1944, commented by letter on H. R. 4485, which became the Flood Control Act of 1944, in the form in which the bill had been passed by the House of Representatives on May 9, 1944. In the course of that letter Secretary Ickes stated: "Fifth. The Missouri River Basin project proposed to be authorized by the paragraph beginning at line 13 on page 12, and ending at line 10 on page 13 of this bill is not, in my opinion, truly comprehensive in character. The reasons for this conclusion were indicated in the course of the hearings had before Senator Overton's Subcommittee in connection with the rivers and harbors bill. Accordingly,