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Show Arizona, at the outset, discarded riparian rights and adopted prior ap- propriation as its primary constitutional policy expressed in unmistaka"ble terms • -^2 The admission of Few Mexico and Arizona completed, at one and the same time, the present Union of American States and the theatre of action for sovereign controversies over the use of waters where there is not water enough for all. It was soon to become apparent, however, that sovereign waters contro- versies, even as to beneficial uses and priorities, may arise in the moist east as well as the arid west; and that the settlement of such controversies by compacts between the States and with the United States is highly desirable * Toward this end, both Congress and the United States Supreme Court have mani- fested a fine spirit of cooperation during recent years when the increasing need of the States have multiplied the causes for friction. Ajn indication of permanent federal policy in one direction made its ap- pearance with the enactment by Congress of the Federal YJater Power Act. creating a commission composed of the Secretaries of War, of the Interior, and of Agriculture to investigate and study water-power.problems; to regulate and control the construction and-maintenance of dams and like obstructions in the waters of the public domain and in the navigable waters of the United States^ to recommend development of projects by the federal government either alone or with the States or other associates, in connection with the improve- ment of navigable waterways; but expressly disclaiming any interference Kwith 1Z1 Art. XVI of the first and present constitution of New Mexico is, as follows? • ¦ Par. !•--"All existing rights to the use of any waters in this state for any useful or beneficial purposes are hereby recognized and confirmed* Par. 2.-"The unappropriated water of every natural stream, perennial or torrential, -within the State of Hew Mexico, is hereby declared to belong to the public and to be subject to appropriation for beneficial use, in accordance with the^law of the state, priority of appropriation shall give the better right. ' Par. 3•"""Beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of the ri^ht to the use of watere Par. !)..-"The legislature is authorized to provide by law for the organi- zation and operation of drainage districts and systemso" New Mexico was admitted into the Union in the year 1912* Proclamation of Jan. 6, 1912, 37 Stat. at L. I723, , 162 ' • ¦' . Art. XVII of the first and present constitution of Arizona provides as followsj * : Pa.r. 1.-wThe common law doctrine of riparian water rights shall not ob- tain or- be of any force or effect in the State, Par. .2, - "All existing rights to the use of any of the water in the State for alL useful or beneficial purposes are hereby recognized and confirmed." Ar*t. II (Bill of Rights), Par. 17 also extends the right of eminent domain |