Show Colorado Pact Urged On Wyoming Legislature CHEYENNE YEn YEn- Wyo Feb eb 1 AP By no other means than through Interstate compact entered Into between be- be tween t the states with the approval ot of SS tan can the states ot of the upper basin of the Colorado river be protected against the application of C the decree of 01 priority lion This was the thO warning sounded to of oC Wyoming's s twentieth twentieth legislature assembled I In joint session today Iy by Governor Franl C C. C Emerson In a special message dl di reeled against the two senate bills advocating of the states state's ratification ot of the Colorado river compacts Governor Emerson said three Upper upper up up- per basin states will wiIL be left far tal behind In any allY raCe for tor development It if they have to face a situation that will cause this fundamental nn amen tal principle pe or of western water law to hand cap can their progress In continuing his reply to claims of proponents pro ot of the repeal bills billa that V Wyoming's water r rights al' al are not adequately protected b by the tho compact the tho governOr said STRESSES PROVISION I What argument over nominal discrepancies lp In figures 11 Fes as to stream flow as to irrigable abl acreage or other questions of lesser significance cap set asIde the great objective of 01 securing se se- curing in definite tangIble form Corm an agreement that reserves to time the upper up up- per basIn states II a water sUPPly of sufficient amount to provide for tor what now appears appealS unlimited development devel- devel In the upper basin and make secure this supply as against as-against the vItal threat that otherwIse would come from the establishment of priorities through early development In the tho lower basIn Another provisIon of the compact which the governor said Is of oC great value to Wyoming and the other up upper er basIn states Is that whIch specifies that this impounding and use of water for fOt the generation ot of electrical power shall be subservient nt to the use and consumption of water wa ter for agricultural and domestic purposes 1 and shall not interfere wIth or prevent US use for the dom purposes The governOr explained explained ex- ex that under ot of the Johnson Swing hIlI the federal power commission is directed not to issue or approve any ny permIts or licenses license li- li censes cense under the federal water power act affectIng the Colorado river dver only Or of its tributaries e except ex- ex the Gila river until the act shall become effective FORESEES MENACE It may well he be assumed Gov- Gov Governor Emerson saId that If through the wIthdrawal of Wyoming of 01 its ratification of tits tit's Colorado river rI compact or 01 any other othel action that would cause the collapse of the whole compact matter nn and thereby the failure of the act of congress authorIzing the Boulder canyon project to become operative the restraint re re- placed upon the federal power power pow pow- er commission would no no doubt be removed by congress Permits would then be issued under the prevailing law and the establishment of 01 priorities through use of water for tor power purposes would become a most serious menace men men- ace against the use uso ot of water in the states o of the upper basin buln |