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Show MIDWEST STATES TO SETTLE WATER FIGHT TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 26. The old Irrigation water controversy between Kansas and Colorado came Up In the legislature today with the introduction of a senate concurrent resolution for nppointment of a commission to thresh out the nuesllon as to who Is : titled to the water In the Arkansas river. Tllf resolution recites I ll ' 'nb.rinlo has been taking an unfair I hare of (he water and that Innumerable rosily rosi-ly lawsuits have resulted. The commission com-mission would consist of se en members, mem-bers, the governor, attorney general, two senators, and three Irrigation commissioners, com-missioners, with power to settle the luestion which Colorado Is willing to arbitrate. Failing agreepjent. Kansas Kan-sas would Join other aggrieved states and carry the fight into the federal courts. |