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Show A84 APPENDIX 210 HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM IN RE COLORADO RIVER, AND BRIEF OF LAW OF INTERSTATE COMPACTS (Submitted by Delph E. Carpenter to Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, 67th Cong., 1st sess., on June 4, 1921, at hearing in re H. R. 6821) Historical Memorandum The object of the pending legislation is to permit a settlement respecting the future utilization and disposition of the waters of the Colorado River, and of the streams tributary thereto, by compact between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The object is to determine the respective rights of the States to the use and disposition of the waters of this great river prior to any further large construction or extensive utilization of these waters, in order that the rights of the States and the Government may be settled and determined in advance of construction and before interstate or other controversies may arise. The pending bill was introduced pursuant to resolution adopted and signed by the governors of the seven States above named at Denver, Colo., May 10, 1921, wherein it is recited that each of the seven States, whose territory includes in part the drainage of the Colorado River, has already provided for adjustment respecting the future utilization and disposition of the waters of the stream and has appointed its commissioner to serve with commissioners from other interested States and with a commissioner to be appointed for the United States for this general purpose. The resolution reads as follows: Whereas the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have by appropriate legislation authorized the governors of said States to appoint commissioners representing said States for the purpose of entering into a compact or agreement between said States and between said States and the United States respecting the future utilization and disposition of the waters of the Colorado River and the streams tributary thereto; and Whereas the governors of said several States have named and appointed the commissioners contemplated by the legislative acts aforesaid: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be, and is hereby, requested to provide for the appointment of a commissioner on behalf of the United States to act as a member of said Commission; and be it further Resolved, That the proposed draft of a bill for presentation to Congress, a copy of which is hereto attached, be offered as a suggestion for legislation for the purposes aforesaid; and be it further Resolved, That Gov. Thomas E. Campbell, of Arizona, and the governors of the other States in the Colorado River Basin, or such representatives as they may severally designate, be and they hereby are, authorized to present his resolution to the President and to the Congress of the United States. |
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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] : |