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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 145 Now all the mass of economic, financial, engineering and legal data which had been presented in the previous Congress began to pour into the record once more, and once again all of it was explained, defended and de- nounced, according to the views of each witness to ap- pear. Once more McFarland repeated his tearful plea that unless the project were approved 150,000 people would have to leave Arizona and would become homeless wanderers, banks would fail and business houses would collapse. The economy of his state would go to pot. There was, he insisted, plenty of water in the river for the project, and he cited the previous testimony of Ari- zona witnesses to support the assertion. He did not cite the Reclamation Bureau's statement that if the con- tentions of California were correct there was not enough water for the project. In McFarland's view, the con- tentions of California simply were not correct, and the Lower Basin was entitled to 8,500,000 acre-feet of water. Out of this the 1,200,000 acre-feet necessary for the pro- ject could easily be taken.168 Senator Malone promptly did a little arithmetic out loud. Using McFarland's figure of 8,500,00 acre-feet, he told the committee: 4,400,000 acre-feet for California; 2,800,000 acre-feet to Arizona; in addition to one million acre-feet from the Gila River . . . 300,000 acre-feet under contract to Ne- vada. There is 1,500,000 acre-feet to old Mexico . . . Instead of adding up to 8,500,000 acre-feet ... it adds up to more than 10,000,000 acre-feet of water. McFarland ignored Malone, but he could not ignore Downey, who stated that the Federal Power Commission and other agencies had pointed out there was no logical |