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Show __3__ Senate Joint Memorial No. 1 To the Congress of the United States of America: In the name and on behalf of the people of a sovereign State, albeit the youngest State of the American Union, and with assurance that this plea voices the views and commands the earnest support of practically all citizens, irrespective of political faith, financial interest, or occupation, your Memorialist, the Eighth Legislature of the State of Arizona, in regular session assembled, respectfully but earnestly prays: That the Congress of the United States do not pass the bill, "to provide for the protection and development of the lower Colorado River Basin," commonly known and referred to as the Swing-Johnson bill (H. R. 9826), nor its companion measure of identical tenor (S. 1868). In support of this prayer your Memorialist represents: 1. That the passage of either of these measures, in their present form and scope, would constitute an attack upon, and their enforcement a serious and unwarranted infringement of the sovereign power of the arid Western States, as asserted in their water law since time immemorial, and recognized in every important item of Federal water Legislation to date, to control the appropriation, use and distribution of water within their respective borders. 2. That this attempted usurpation by the Federal government of a political power which these arid States, dependent for their growth and prosperity upon the orderly, systematic control of their water resources, hold to be among their most important attributes of sovereignty, would shake the faith of the people in the fairness and justice of their National Government and their confidence in that Government's impartial and unvarying guardianship of the rights of the several 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] : California exhibits. |