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Show 108 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER pressing doubt that the committee had a right to make such a request, Millikin, nevertheless, agreed to do it. Inasmuch as Arizona had inserted in the record large blocks of testimony from her witnesses at the S. 1175 hearings, Millikin permitted California to insert portions of the testimony of Matthew and Elder105 regarding the availability of water for the Central Arizona Project. Millikin's request for the Budget Bureau report from which Krug had quoted brought action faster than was expected, and the revelations were hardly less than startling. Within a few hours after hearing of the re- quest, both Budget Director James E. Webb, and an assistant, Roger W. Jones, had held telephone conver- sations with Downey and with staff members of the Millikin committee. The staff members promptly prepared a memorandum for Millikin, and he read it aloud on the afternoon of May 13, 1948.106 It revealed that Downey's fears had been fully justified. All proposals involving large expenditures or new programs must bear the approval of the Budget Bureau. Approval or rejection by the Bureau reflected the view of the President. Now it was disclosed that the Budget Bureau had never seen Krug's final report on SJR. 145, which had been sent by the Secretary of the Interior to Millikin's committee. All the Budget Bureau had seen was a previous preliminary report, which had been prepared by the zealous Bureau of Reclamation and approved by Krug. The Budget Bureau had done nothing more than write informally to Krug, stating what it believed to be wrong with his report. After that, Krug (or the Recla- mation Bureau) had rewritten the report, but the final |