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Show ' ' ' " A T . ' ' . l' . ; Ccnr":r:n (oLvestljr.tc " it: Iaterc:.tio::l Water v?J2lils. ; TVASHINGTOX, Arrtf' 13.'-Th President Presi-dent has appointed a special commission to deal with three Important auestlona which have rlseri relative to the diversion diver-sion ct and lnterierenc with the course of international rivers. This commission consists of Judge Penfleld. . solicitor for the State department; Special Assistant Attorney-General McBurch and Prof.F H. Newell of the f eologrlcal survey, and has Just had lu first meeting. ( ' All the Questions before the commission have formed the subject of extensive correspondence cor-respondence between the ' State department depart-ment and Mexico on the south and the Dominion of Canada, as represented by Great Britain, on the north. On the south there Is that long standing controversy growing out of the damming of the Rio Grande and. the use ef the waters of the '.upper. river ior irrigation purposes-on- the right bank of the .river. The Jtlexicans claim that the Rio Grande Is navigable, and consequently that this diversion 9f the water, is In violation of the international interna-tional law. To the westward the commission Is to deal with the Colorado river, where the upper waters -in American territory also are about to 1?e diverted, to the losa of the Mexican ranches In lower California. , On the north the Milkf river projects In Montana ' have alarmed the (Canadians. Arising In the United States, this river flows into Canana and back again Into Montana. The Canadians have been making large use of the-waters on their side, which has led to a project by the I people of Montana to cut out 'the entire bend In the river on the Canadian side by a canal,- the effect of which would be to completely, deprive . the Canadians of water. 1 - The commission will have to deal with some entirely new questions referring to riparian right. . As a reeult of the conference with Secretary Sec-retary Taft It was decided-that as projects pro-jects " such as the International dam across the Colorado river had been "authorized "au-thorized by Congress there was nothing to do but to proceed with the work, leaving leav-ing the broader question of International riparian rights to be treated diplomatically, diplomati-cally, r |