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Show COMPACT-REPORT BY CARPENTER-COLORADO A87 Resolved, That the league favors the early development of all possible beneficial uses of waters of the stream upon the upper reaches of the stream and its tributaries along the lines set forth in the resolutions adopted at the Salt Lake conference of January 28-31, 1919, and that tha present and future restrictions upon such development by withholding or conditional granting of applications for rights of way across public lands for irrigation works should be discontinued and that such applications should be granted with that degree of dispatch which will permit the construction of all such projects while financial and other means are at hand and opportunity for construction exists: Be it further Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that the present and future rights of the several States whose territory is in whole or in part included within the drainage area of the Colorado River, and the rights of the United States, to the use and benefit of the waters of said stream and its tributaries, should be settled and determined by compact or agreement between said States and th9 United States, with consent of Congress, and that the legislatures of said States be requested to authorize the appointment of a commissioner for each of said States for the purpose of entering into such compact or agreement for subsequent ratification and approval by the legislature of each State and the Congress of the United States. Pursuant to the last-quoted resolution, and at the request of the Governor of Arizona, president of the League of the Southwest, bills were drawn and submitted to the legislatures of the seven States involved, and were thereafter enacted by all of said States. Each of said bills provide for the appointment of a commissioner for each of said States by the respective governors for the purpose of formulating the compact or agreement provided for by the concurrent legislation. The legislation by each of the States also provided for a representative of the United States to act on behalf of the Federal Government in the formulation of the interstate compact or agreement. Pursuant to the above legislation, the governors of each of the States have appointed their respective commissioners. May 10, 1921, the governors of the seven States, or their duly accredited representatives, met at the city of Denver and there formulated resolutions calling upon the President of the United States and upon Congress to provide for the appointment of a representative for the United States in harmony with the above-mentioned legislation by the States, and directed that the resolution so formulated be laid before the President and Congress by the governors of the States. The resolution adopted by the governors at Denver was presented by the governors, or their duly accredited representatives, to the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, May 17, and to the President of the United States, May 19, 1921. |
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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] : |