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Show 132 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Kuchel had arrived just in time to hear his state and its officials bitterly attacked by Upper Basin attorney John Geoffry Will. California groups, said Will, enjoy and propose "to perpetuate the existing situation in which a large part of the water to which the Upper Basin states are en- titled races downstream to turn their turbines and multiply their wealth. In order to perpetuate this situ- ation they have followed the consistent tactic of urging everywhere possible the adoption of water resource policies strictly designed to be beyond our ability to meet. If this is not sufficient, they would, notwith- standing the lack of justification therefor, involve us in litigation to which they would then point as a barrier to our development." 148 Kuchel had heard enough, and he stopped the assault with a demand that Will document his accusations. Will promised to do it, but he never did, and the com- mittee went on to other things. Undersecretary Tudor stepped forward to repeat the performance he had given in the House committee re- garding Echo Park, and Engineer Larson was on hand to submit testimony virtually identical with that he had previously delivered. The committee might well have adopted the printed House hearings and have ad- journed. However, that would not have satisfied Senator Anderson. Anderson was getting mad. New Mexico was being left out of things. He demanded to know why the Navajo Project had been omitted from the bill. Larson squirmed, and Reclamation Commissioner Dexheimer arose in the audience to state that the Navajo Project had been omitted because the Budget Bureau had said |
