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Show JANUARY ON CAPITOL HILL 73 Bureau's true motives would be driven away by the clear sunlight of honest arithmetic. Since Governor Warren had ascended to the ethereal heights of the United States Supreme Court, California's official family had been united on the question of its opposition to the crsp. One exception to harmony was Rep. Engle, California's champion in the fight against the Central Arizona Project. Engle was against fighting the crsp on economic grounds, for a reason previously cited. But California did not propose to let the defection of Engle interfere with its battle plans, and, in conformity with the law, the state forwarded to Secretary McKay its views of the crsp as it was proposed in the supple- mental report of the Reclamation Bureau. No semblance of Warren's vacillating, gentle phraseology and his something-for-everybody philosophy remained in the state's revised opinions. They struck hard and without qualification at the evils of the crsp as California saw them. These nine major points were emphasized: 1 - The crsp would have a substantial effect upon the quantity and quality of the Lower Basin's water supply. 2 - There were at least ten paramount questions of interpretation of the Colorado River Compact involved in the crsp. The supplemental report was based on erroneous interpretations of the Compact. All these questions were at issue in Arizona vs. California, pend- ing in the U. S. Supreme Court. 3 - Large scale developments in the Upper Basin should not be undertaken until it had been determined what the effect would be on the quality of the water |