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Show 14 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER California was satisfied, and it was Poulson who made the motion in the House Interior Committee to approve the Upper Basin Compact. It carried by unanimous vote. California's support was not appreciated. The Yuma Sun declared that the Upper Basin Compact "backs Arizona's method of measuring beneficial consumptive use as against California's. It gives firm moral support to Arizona." 10 The Upper Basin Compact was a blow to California, said the Denver Post, and quoted Judge Clifford Stone, Colorado's compact negotiator, as saying that, "California was hoping Colorado , Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico would get into a fight that they couldn't settle, and that the meeting would break up without a compact." X1 California thought the amendments made at its re- quest in the Upper Basin Compact legislation would protect its own legal contentions from being adversely influenced. The truth, which was soon to be learned, was that the Upper Basin States had readily agreed to California's demands only to prevent a fight in Con- gress. The Upper Basin politicians had no intention of giving heed to any California interpretation of any legal question whatsoever, if that interpretation hindered the progress of their plans in the slightest degree. And those plans strained the imagination. Development in the Upper Basin had been slow and spasmodic, largely because there had been no agree- ment between the states for dividing the water ap- portioned to them by the Colorado River Compact, a total of 7,500,000 acre-feet per year, but that situation had not prevented either the states or the Bureau of |