Show FiGHT STARTS J ARIS IN SENATE NAI ON SIX SIX-SIAn PA 1 Dern Sends Message tc Senate on Receiving Wire From Young QUICK ACTION SEEN California to Act on Bill Next Week Governor George H. H Dern Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day sent a message to the state senate recommending that it ratify the Colorado river compact on a state six basis before the end of the thi session The special communication tion W was prepared following receipt of a telegram from Governor C. C CYoung C C. Young of California stating that a state six ratification bill would be introduced into the California state stati legislature early next week and that it undoubtedly would be passed Tile darn dam ratification bill was ted reported out to the floor loor of tile the senate by tile the Elft ng commIttee shortly after the session convened tillS this afternoon with t ons that it be made the Immediate I order of business President Hamilton Gardners Gardner's ruling that the committee was not out of oC order In making such a recommendation recommendation rec- rec immediately drew a volley ot of criticism from tile the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic side ot- ot the house Senator Burton Musser declared that methods meth- meth ads of the committee were atrociOuS atro ciOuS and autocratic l Knox nox Patterson took the floor to protest tile the committee Lion tion and the ruling of tile the chair im- im mediately after Senator Musser sat down lown In Ills his recommendation Governor G Dern suggested that it might be prudent to def defer r final of the lIe house ratification bill now before be- be rove fore the senate for a few days longer to permit California to act first Jn In case action IS taken In advance of California he advised amendment di C tile the ratification bill billo to o make it effective On condi- condi Continued on page 5 I FIGHT STARTS IN SENATE ON STATE SIX PACT Continued from page 1 tion that California agrees Irrevocably bly and unconditionally to provisIons provisions pro pro- visIons of the Boulder canyon project act limiting her supply of water QUICK ACTION LOOMS There Is a possibility according to members of the senate sitting sifting committee that the ratification bill may be brought up before the close ot of the session today W. W D. D C Candland said that the committee commit commit- tee was desirous of getting the issue settled and that it would be placed on the calendar the first of next week if not today lIe expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the opinion that It will pass with little or no opposition The rhe complete message of the governor governor gov- gov to the senate follows I am this morning In receipt of ofa ofa a telegram from Governor C. C C. C Young of California which reads as follows QUOTES tELEGRAM Since early agreement with Arizona to the end that Colorado river compact be approved by all alI seven states does not look hopeful we have prepared bill for state six approval by California ThIs bill will be introduced early next week and I have every confidence that it will be speedily passed In view ot of the fact that a measure mess mess- ure Is is' is pending in the senate prOviding providing prO prO- viding for Utah's reentry into the state six agreement I have felt that your honorable body should be kept advised as to developments in California Call Call- fornia and hence I hasten to transmit transmit trans trans- mit the foregoing telegram to you ou In my message I concluded my discussion ot of the Colorado river pIo problem lem by saying that I might possibly pos pos- sibl sibly at a later day submit a communication corn com dealing with the ques- ques further When n I addressed the legislature orally on February 12 I discussed many of the details of the problem and suggested that the legislature defer action until the probable outcome ot of the Santa Pc Fe conference was as knOwn DISAPPOINTED To my disappointment nt it has become I Increasingly apparent as Indicated by Governor Young that thata a state Ui-state agreement of the stat s sot ot of the lower basin which would lead to ratification of the Colorado river compact by Arizona is not likely to uc be reached before the adjournment adjournment ad- ad of the Utah legislature if at all Under the circumstances It seems to me that It would be appropriate appropriate ap- ap and opportune and for forthe forthe the best interests of Utah to re- re ratify th the state six agreement before be- be fore fOIe the lose close ot of the present legislative legislative legis- legis session The house of representatives representatives rep rep- has already taken action action ac- ac tion to that effect uy by passing house bill Xo No I suggest however that it might be prudent to deter defer final action on bill for a few da days s In order to permit California to act first It Utah were to ratify on ona ona a state six basis in advance of California It would probably be advisable advisable ad- ad to amend the pending bill by adding to section 1 thereof the I following Provided further That this act shall be of no force or effect until the state ot of California by act ot of Its legislature shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the states ot of Arizona Colorado Nevada evada New Mexico Utah and Wyoming as an express covenant and In consideration ot of the passage of the Boulder canyon project act annual consumptive consumptive con con- th that t the aggregate Rg use diversions less returns returns re- re turns to the river ot of water of and from the Colorado river for use In Inthe inthe the state ot of California including all uses under contracts ma made under I the provisions or of the Boulder canyon can can- yon yen project act and all water necessary necessary sary for COI the supply of any rights which may now exist shan shall not ox- ox x- x feet acre of the waters waters wa- wa apportioned to the lower basin states by paragraph a of article III of the Colorado river compact plus not more than one halt of any excess or surplus waters or- or by said compact such uses I always to be subject to the terms tOrms of said salil compact NOT NECESSARY This amendment would not be necessary If California had already ahead basis with state stat ratified on a the foregoing provision as a part of her act ot of ratification other reservations reservations reserva- reserva in fn my opinion no should be attached to Utah's ratification because th they might have the effect of destro destroying ing the Colorado river compact and hence defeat the segregation or of an acceptable accept accept- able quantity ot of water for the benefit bene- bene fit of the states tates of the upper basin de- de which is vital for their future |