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Show 146 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER connection between the proposed gigantic power dam at Bridge Canyon and the project.169 The dam, said Downey, was merely brought into the project so that a very valuable power project in the Lower Basin could be used as a means of financing a project that otherwise could not be considered feasible. Bridge Canyon Dam was, McFarland retorted, part and parcel of the project. O'Mahoney stopped the argu- ment. Senator McCarran was not present, but he sent a message stating his opinion that "no Senator would vote to build a million dollar structure on land whose title was in dispute. This project involves a thousand times a million dollars. Nevada and California are not afraid to submit their cases to the Supreme Court. If Arizona will not risk her case in the Supreme Court, let her not ask Congress to risk a billion dollars on the same gamble." 17° Once more the American Federation of Labor advo- cated that the controversy be settled by litigation,171 and once more the Upper Basin states joined in a resolution opposing S. J. Res. 4.172 O'Mahoney inserted both in the record. Senator Kerr suggested that S. 75 was merely an authorization bill, and carried no provision for appropri- ations, and Knowland told him: 173 "Getting an authori- zation bill is like a camel getting its nose in under the tent." Once the authorization bill was passed, its pro- ponents would be before the Appropriations Committee asking for money. And who was chairman of the Ap- propriations Committee? Senator Hayden of Arizona. Downey injected questions into the debate that had not been brought out in the previous Congress. Cali- |
