Show OF comm 81 SWING JOHNSON IN SAME corm SURE TO BE offered TO CONGRESS move to tack it on mississippi flood control act now Is foreshadowed foreshadower Fore shadowed washington some sort of 0 bill look ing to the regulation and partial development of 0 the colorado river Is almost certain to pass congress next session what form the final enactment will take will depend on many things to a large extent it will depend upon the success of 0 negotiations now in progress among the states of 0 the colorado river basin the simple solution ot of the colorado river problem would be unconditional ratification aton ot of the seven state compact by all of 0 the states ot of the basin failure of arizona to ratify except with reservations and withdrawal ot of utah from the six state compact lie at the bottom ot of most of 0 past difficulties which thich beset and brought about the defeat ot of the swing johnson bill once the seven states are arc in accord and their assessment has been ratified by congress as was contemplated when the santa fe conference was called most of the difficulties in the path of colorado river legislation would be removed and there would remain then only tile the one big issue not necessarily a parc part of 0 the first enactment by congress shall the power bc be developed by the federal government ot of other agencies |