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Show BANANAS ON PIKE'S PEAK 213 have been a tasty dish to set before the hearing. They had been successful in prevailing upon the Budget Bureau to withhold its letter until the hearings had been concluded. However, a statement from the Budget Bureau was a legal requirement. The hearings had not yet been printed when Belcher's letter was received. Then, so it could not be said that the committee was not obeying the law, it was printed in small type and buried near the back of the thick volume containing the printed record of the hearings. The second letter also reached the committee on March 17. It was addressed to Senator Anderson, chairman of the subcommittee which had conducted the hearings on S. 500, and it was signed by S. W. Crosth- wait, Acting Commissioner of Reclamation. The crsp, said Crosthwait, would cost the nation's taxpayers $1,153 billion in lost interest.254 Like the Budget Bureau letter, the staggering blow from Acting Commissioner Crosthwait, who obviously would not make such a statement without the approval of his superior, the Secretary of the Interior, was not disclosed to the public. It also was buried in the printed hearings. But it was not to remain undiscovered. The author spotted it, and quickly gave it to the news- papers.255 Although he attended each House committee hearing and made witnesses supporting the crsp sweat under cross-examination, Rep. Hosmer did not neglect his homework. His favorite subject of the moment was the geology of Glen Canyon. Hosmer had received information from prominent geologists that the site selected for Glen Canyon Dam |