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Show THE WESTERN WEB 105 With a strong objection to Howard's argument that Arizona might not be a party to the Compact, after all, Mrs. Bush subsided, and McFarland took the floor. Having sat for hours both in and out of the committee listening to lawyers, McFarland had absorbed points of argument, and he advanced them as if they were his own. He claimed that the executive branch of the gov- ernment had jurisdiction in the matter at hand, and Congress could not tell it what to do. Millikin was intrigued enough to ask him several questions, and there appeared to be some doubt in Millikin's sharp legal mind of the correctness of McFarland's theory. McFarland saw the wisdom of turning in another direction. He made an emotional appeal for sympathy for a little state, a state that wanted to grow and which California was trying to stunt. When McFarland sat down, Arizona's Rep. Murdock asked if the record could show that he had been on hand most of the time and that he subscribed to the stand taken by McFarland and Hayden. The record would so show, said Millikin.98 Senator Johnson of Colorado98 also wanted to be in the picture, and he presented a letter to Millikin from Governor W. Lee Knous of his state in which the governor set down his firm opposition to SJR. 145." Millikin also had received a letter from Governor Vail Pittman of Nevada 10° which took an opposite view. He read it into the record, and adjourned the hearing for the day. When the committee resumed the next morning, May 13, 1948, Senator Hayden was on hand. He endorsed McFarland's statements, declared the Gila belonged exclusively to Arizona, and gave way to Nevada Senator George W. Mai one.101 |
