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Show 102 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER most important naval base on the Pacific Coast. The protection and development of this military installation is dependent upon the full utilization of Colorado River water. Forty per cent of the full water supply of San Diego is used by the United States government." Rex Hardy, an assistant city attorney of Los Angeles, stepped forward to present statements prepared by Reps. Gearhart and Poulson supporting SJR. 145.88 He also introduced a resolution from the California Legislature urging that the controversy be taken before the court,89 and a number of memorials to Congress from California irrigation districts, local governmental units, and others. Arizona, aided by Judge Stone, Tipton and others, had laid well the groundwork for bringing its Upper Basin supporters into the fight against SJR. 145. McFarland and Hayden were relying largely on the Upper Basin voices to give weight to the Arizona con- tentions, not only from a legal standpoint, but from a political standpoint. Millikin, the chairman, was from an Upper Basin state. So were O'Mahoney and Robert- son of Wyoming, Watkins of Utah and Hatch of New Mexico, all members of the Senate Interior Committee. Obviously when SJR. 145 was put to a committee vote these men would be fully apprised of the wishes of their constituents. So Arizona opened its case against SJR. 145 by showing at once that it had the unqualified support of the Upper Basin states. Arizona's first witness was J. A. Howell of Ogden, Utah, a legal adviser to his state's engineer.90 Howell revaled that after SJR. 145 had been introduced, the Colorado River Basin States Committee had met in Salt Lake City and had adopted a resolution opposing it. |