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Show 664 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS (2), (3) and (4) set out in the fourth paragraph of the above message and pointed out that, "in addition to the technical report on the effects of an increased diversion into the Illinois Waterway which has been made by the Joint Lake Ontario Engineering Board to the Interna- tional Joint Commission," a comprehensive survey by the Corps of Engineers was nearing completion. (This report, dated January 29, 1957, was subsequently published as Senate Document 28, 85th Con- gress.) He concluded, "I think it would be unwise to proceed with the diversion in the manner proposed in H.R. 3210 until all relevant infor- mation has been obtained, particularly since objections to the proposed diversion have been registered by the Canadian Government in its note dated February 13, 1956, and additional objections filed by legal ad- visers of the States of Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York." He added that he was "asking the State Department to engage in discussions with the Canadian Government in an attempt to work out a solution to these problems as soon as all pertinent facts are available." Two subsequent bills to provide for a study of the effects of a 1,000- second-foot increase in diversions from Lake Michigan passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. See H.R. 2, 85th Con- gress, and H.R. 1, 86th Congress. On the international aspects of these bills, see Senate Report 2482, 85th Congress, p. 5, and Senate Report 808,86th Congress, p. 18. Related documents.-See the notes to the Boundary Waters Treaty, pp. 388ff ante, and the Mississippi River litigation cases, pp. 703ff post. |
