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Show 244 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Still Adams refused to give up. He demanded that the bill be placed on the House calendar forthwith, and the leadership obeyed. July 26th was set for the begin- ning of the floor debate. On July 25th House Republicans were summoned to another secret caucus. The situation had not changed A majority still were in favor of postponing action on the bill until the 1956 session. On the morning of the next day, July 26th, House Republican leaders marched down Pennsylvania Ave- nue to the White House. They went over Adam's head, and demanded an audience with Mr. Eisenhower. They were with the President only a few minutes, but that was all they needed to convince him that the crsp would be defeated if it were called to the floor. Over the strenuous protests of Adams, Mr. Eisenhower ordered a postponement until the next session. It was 11:30 a. m. only half an hour before the debate was to begin, when the decision was announced. During the latter months of 1955, two studies in- volving thousands of miles of travel were conducted by the author for the purpose of gathering material that would strengthen the argument that the crsp was an unjustified expenditure of public money, a menace to the nation's economy, and unsound from an engineering standpoint. Terrell visited Soil Conservation Service offices in seventeen southern and midwestern states, and from the Service's official land classification surveys he learned that in these states there were more than twenty million acres of idle farm land in classes 1, 2 and 3. This total |