Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-16 | Page 2 | Action on Colo. River Pact to be Decided Monday

ACTION ON COlO C RIVER PACT TO 10 Of BE DECIDED MONDAY Emergency Committee Meetings Called REPEAL BILL READ Gov Dern Ca Calls ls Co Conference Confer Confer- f rence r- r ence of SC i A special emergency meeting of of the senate committees on lion irrigation and drainage has been called for Monday morning at 11 o'clock to determine w at action to take toward the the state state six Cola Cola- rado river pact Senator A. A D. D lr- lr vine vine president of the senate senale announced announced an- an Saturday night The Auerbach bill which provides for repeal of the pact Is bein being printed he said and will be re ready d for the senate Monday morning and andin In thEY the hands or of an all the ready for immediate action the line to be chosen Samuel M. M Jorgensen speake peak dC the house has called a meeting cf tho house committee on Irrigation for the same purpose as the senate committee meetings Governor George IT H. Dern has or 1 dered his committee composed of three senators three representatives tives and prominent citizens to meet with him Monday afternoon Rt at WASHINGTON Jan 15 AP A dispute between Utah and CaU CalI fornia Cornia over provisions J. J the proposed construction O de Boulder Canyon dam across across' the Colorado river further complicated the legislative situation I Ing that project toda today The rhe controversy came to a focus when hen the Utah delegation In con gress sent telegrams to both tlC tle Utah governor and legislature which Representative Colton Democrat Utah said in effect suggested sug- sug that the state stale withdraw front from the six state Boulder Doulder Canyon pact it if California persisted in its opposition opposition op- op op position to amendments proposed by Utah TIc Representative Cotton Colton predicted that if Utah repudiated the Pact the whole Boulder canyon development develop develop- ment plan topple and legis certainly could not be ass d at this session The Arizo Arizona a. a del gation Is fighting the measure known as the SwIng Johnson bill bUL The amendments In dispute provIde provide pro pro- vIde for or a formal protest agaInst any I plan Jan for the entry of the United States Into the water pow r try and would prevent diversion o of water from om the Colorado river except ex cx by the unanimous consent of the signers of the pact HOLD CONFERENCE While the Utah delegation v. v was s preparing its message to state the state legislature the California delegation tion was In conference with Mayor lla or John L. L Bacon and City Attorn Attorney e S. S J. J Higgins of San who urged prompt action on the After Arter the conference Senator Johnson Republican ma public a statement by Maor l Bacon which declared there is not one clause in the Johnson Sving-Johnson bill that gives California any advantage advantage ad- ad vantage over any other basin state Mayor Ba Bacon n Senator Johnson said cited the recent earthquake as additional reason for prompt action on legislation as there was no way of knowing when one of the mud volcanoes in Mexico would woul come uP under the levees along the time river and turn the how flow of th th Colorado river ln into o the Imp valley The bill is now on the calendars o of both the senate senale and house anlis and is standing third on the preferential legislative list of- of the senate while supporters wIn argue before the th house rules committee next day dar in an effort to give it status In the house 3 t New Mexico May T Sue Colorado SA SANTA TA FE 1 N. N M I. I Jan 15 c Possibility o of suit being filed bY by bythe the state or of New Mexico against the state of Colorado was seen today today to- to day with a r renewal of the discus slon sion over oyer the question of ot water rights o of the two states For so some e Continued on pa page e 5 f ON O LQ RIVER PACT TO BE DECIDED MONDAY S Continued from page 1 1 time this state has been considering consider consider- ing litigation with Colorado on the subject of the rights in the rado river while toda today the water situation was again brought in tee 6 limelight b by a telegram sent y J Attorney Genera Hobert C. C Do Dots Dots' o J-o o Delph E. E Carpenter In demanding that the terms of te IA Plata r er compact be carried out immediately S. S The was d by t the le legislatures s of both states and y congress some years ego and COt cop I tamed the provision pro that a pro r i distribution of at water be d dat at some point on the border t Colorado man was placed In the distribution ot of supervising super The people are that the provisions of this are not being equitably carri carrid out Mr Ir Dow stated today a unless we can make some somo agreement agree agree- meat ment that hat will wili hold the b ot of the state will have to be after atter t