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Show 156 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER National Monument.197 Attorney Felix S. Cohen pro- tested to the committee that the site of Bridge Canyon Dam belonged to the Hualapai Indians, and he de- manded fair treatment and just compensation for them.198 It was 4:50 p.m. on the afternoon of May 2, 1949, when Chairman O'Mahoney abruptly concluded the hearings. No one in the room, certainly not the Cali- fornia contingent, had any doubt as to the outcome. The only question was how swiftly the committee would act. McFarland and Hay den saw to that matter. A month after the hearings had ended, the committee voted to approve S. 75 and to disapprove S.J.. Res. 4. Senator Kerr insisted on having his so-called litigation amend- ments - two sections - incorporated in the bill. Neither Hayden nor McFarland wished to antagonize as in- fluential a supporter as Kerr. So the amendments were included. It didn't matter. Hayden knew he could get them eliminated on the Senate floor, if necessary. California promptly objected to both the litigation amendment, which was Section 12, and to Section 13, which had to do with an alleged prohibition against expenditures for the project. It was California's position that they were based on the "unwarranted assumption that Arizona was correct in her compact and contract interpretations, and threw the weight of the United States into the scales against one state, in favor of another." Said the California objection: "The burden is placed on other states to defeat Ari- zona's position instead of being placed where it belongs, i.e., on Arizona to establish her claimed right affirma- |