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Show LAST LEGISLATIVE FIGHT 253 River water, the Central Arizona Project, and at that time I brought up the question, if it was not necessary to have some adjudication by the courts of the water before progress could be made. "If we had started at that time on some kind of a program to get an adjudication through the courts this thing might have been settled by now. "It seems a shame that the water in the Colorado River now going to waste cannot be used either for pro- duction of power or for irrigation and domestic uses. "I hope the committee will take some steps to get the thing before the courts as quickly as possible so that we can go ahead and develop the resources that we have in this area." If he had not known it before, Murdock knew then that he had heard the death knell for the project in the Eighty-second Congress. His voice was emotional as he appealed to the committeee to have the motion changed to a resolution which would do no more than postpone further hearings for a time.356 Saylor replied that the motion had not been made in any sense of levity, but for the purpose of settling the controversy.357 Rep. Aspinall, a supporter of the project, attempted to come to Murdock's rescue with a substitute motion. Taking priority under the House rules, it proposed "that further consideration of HR. 1500 and 1501 shall be postponed, subject to a call in writing by any fourteen members of the committee." 358 Speaking against the proposal, Engle said: 359 "The difference between the substitute and the original reso- lution is that the original resolution makes it perfectly plain that the majority of the members of this committee |
