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Show THE WESTERN WEB 93 But the report did not come that morning, nor did it come on other mornings, and at last Millikin instructed Miss Nell McSherry, a committee clerk, to summon officials of the Interior Department before him. In his voice was a suggestion of dire consequences to come should his order be ignored. The report arrived as the fourth and last morning of the hearing began. Simultaneously in the House, Rep. Poulson was at- tacking the Central Light and Power Company of Ari- zona, charging that it was "begging California for electric energy to alleviate a shortage in Arizona, [and] at the same time, officers of the company are promoting a billion dollar Central Arizona Project that could only be built by stealing Colorado River water that legally belongs to California." 73 "Arizona is afraid to go before the Supreme Court," cried Rep. Hinshaw over the radio. "She knows her scheme is not honorable and that she will lose. Out in Arizona the land grabbers have been busy. These un- scrupulous gamblers are hoping to make a killing at California's expense." In the Senate committee room, Rep. John Phillips told Chairman Millikin that until the controversy was legally settled, neither state could know "how much water each one owns. The water supply of the future cannot be determined." 74 The first witness to give legal testimony was Northcutt Ely, a Washington, d. c, attorney and special counsel for the Colorado River Board and other California agencies. * : Ely and Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior in the Hoover Administra- tion, were authors of the Hoover Dam Documents, a compilation of all compacts, statutes, agreements and contracts which comprised the law of the Colorado River. |