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Show HI HO, AQUALANTES 195 cedure can be called nothing more than a farce. It makes a hearing a mockery of justice. In the House the situation with regard to committees was hardly different from that in the Senate. Chairman of the House Interior Committee was Rep. Clair Engle of California, who had turned against the wishes of the people of his own state to throw his weight behind the crsp. Chairman of the House subcommittee on Irri- gation, which would conduct the hearings on the projects bills was Rep. Wayne N. Aspinall, the author of two measures for the project. The only difference between the committees of the two bodies was that the House subcommittee had twenty-eight in contrast to the five on the Senate subcommittee. Every member of the House Interior Committee was also a member of the subcommittee on irrigation. Thus, action by the sub- committee made final action by the full committee virtually a formality. The astute and alert Rep. Hosmer had come into posession of some rather amazing correspondence. Presented to Congress, the letters cast serious doubt whether the great Glen Canyon Dam, chief power cash register for the crsp, would stand up after being built. Eyebrows raised as Hosmer told his colleagues: 222 Proponents of the Upper Colorado storage project are asking Congress to authorize an appropriation of $421 million for a gigantic power dam at Glen Canyon, Ari- zona, without knowing whether the rock foundations at the site would support the immense structure. This amazing fact was disclosed in a letter written November 30, 1954, by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay to David R. Brower, executive secretary of the Sierra Club. In his letter, Secretary McKay stated that the materials |