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Show BANANAS ON PIKE'S PEAK 203 saying ". . . we want to get these hearings out of the road as soon as possible." 225 The hearings already had consumed an hour or two. He showed his delight when Attorney Will announced that a number of Upper Basin experts, including himself, intended to rely on the testimony they had made in the previous hearings. All they asked, said Will, was that it be incorporated in the present record. Anderson assured him that would be done.226 But the wheel horse of the Reclamation Bureau, Engineer Larson, had no intention of resting on his oars. If this was bad news, Larson's next remark was even more distressing. He made it clear that the Interior Department and the Administration had recommended a crsp containing only two power dams and eleven irrigation projects, and were not in accord with the gigantic project called for in S. 500. The committee members seemed to have suddenly been afflicted with deafness, and some gazed into space. Larson proceeded to give a repeat performance, com- plete in every minute detail. He put into the record, one by one and with a suitable explanation of each, all the mass of maps, diagrams, reports, tables and other materials he had introduced in his testimony for S. 1555.227 Presumably because Larson was an engineer, the committee saw an advantage in questioning him at some length on legal aspects of the case, but Senator Kuchel, a guest, deviated from this program by asking some practical engineering questions.228 Was Glen Canyon a good place to build a dam? Would the dam be safe? Were the foundations ade- quate? |
