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Show of the lower Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River compact, and for other purposes, which had been reported from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation with amendments. The Vice President. The pending question is on agreeing to the first committee amendment. Mr. Johnson. Mr. President, it is my intention to ask the substitution of the companion bill passed recently by the House of Representatives in order that the orderly legislative procedure may be preserved. The bill which has just been laid before the Senate by the Vice President is S. 728. In the closing days of the last session House bill 5773,1 entitled the same, with the like purposes and with the like designs, passed the House of Representatives, came to the Senate, and was laid upon the table, where it now rests. Of course, the logical mode of procedure is to go forward with the measure which has gone halfway upon its legislative career. I want to make plain, however, that my purpose is subsequently, if the House bill is substituted for the Senate bill, to take up and present every amendment that the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation presented to the Senate bill or to substitute in toto, after the enacting clause of the House bill, the Senate bill upon which the Senate committee acted. Either one of those two courses I shall be very glad to pursue, and the latter one apparently is the course which has met with some approval of my colleagues in speaking to me upon the subject. iCal. Exh. No. 2005. |
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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. |