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Show 204 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Larson's answers, given with long explanations, were "Yes." 229 Reclamation Commissioner Dexheimer arose to give support to his expert, and for nearly an hour he and Larson assured the committee that a dam seven hundred feet in height could be constructed in Glen Canyon with perfect safety. Senator Watkins suddenly came up with the idea that the entire Colorado River Compact should be printed in the record.230 He thought this would be a convenience for senators. No one seemed to recall that the document was already printed in every volume dealing with the river, including the federal papers, and had been issued scores of times in various formats. It went in. Watkins winced when he saw Governor Johnson of Colorado, former senator, enter the room. If there had been any parliamentary maneuver by which Watkins could have prevented Johnson from testifying, he would have used it. There wasn't. Johnson was not only too much of a realist to suit the members of the committee, but he was too honest and too forthright. If he thought the opponents of the crsp had made a good point, he had no hesitancy in saying so. Johnson had given the same committee fits on previ- ous occasions, but his testimony this time made his former renditions innocuous by comparison. In fact, Johnson stole the show. He had eighteen Colorado projects he wanted put in the bill. They would cost about $218 million,231 and consume about 399,000 acre-feet of water a year. John- son submitted amendments for the bill, and the com- mittee, showing its fright, bent to the work of considering them. Johnson did not let them forget that his state of Colorado produced about three-quarters of the water of |
