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Show CLOSE HEARING ON RIVER PACT; i Hoover Speaking at Cheyenne Chey-enne Says Public Opinion Must Be Sounded ' CHEYENNE, Wyo.. April 3 (By j The Associated Pr's. I -Wyoming la anxloua that the Colorado river com- . mission Write a compaet governing tho ! waters of tho Colorado river and sug- ! gts the compact could he agreed to j by tho seven states throach which tho : river flows, on an allotment basis. I witnesses from Wyoming told the j com mission at .h hearing here Sunday. , After tho session, the commission, which has been holding hearings In I the wost since March 15. disbanded. Herbert Hoover, secretary of com-mer com-mer e and chairman r the eommls-sion, eommls-sion, departed for Chicago and the : rest of the commissioners were en-i route to their homes. MA3ET AGAIN soon. In his final statement to tho com-rslssiiin. com-rslssiiin. Mr Hoover said. With this meeting the present session ses-sion of the commission will stand ad-Joumed. ad-Joumed. It is proposed that 1 the commission will reassemble some time In the latter part of juiv or '-aiij in Augu.n at some point In the basin, by which time It will hae been possible to have digest- d md come to some conclusions with ' respect to both fact and opinions that have been presented, it ap- I pears to ine that some four or five different principles for the formulation formula-tion of a pact have beon advanced, and wo have heard a vast amount of i argument pio and con Out of these principles somewhere m- should In-able In-able to formulate some sort of an I agreement. 1 "1 think every member uf the com- ! ! mission realizes fully that this is no j agreement between seven men that j this is an agreement between seven; stales and the national government , ' thai each member of the commission! only represents what may be the con-I con-I sens-us ..i public opinion In those j Mareas, if we are to secure the ratifi-; ; Cation ot sueli a pact. li, however.; ! requires that public opinion In each 'i i of tho states shall be enlightened and It will require time in Which to do It I'l ItlOs SS WM C sl l I "There is a sad lack of understand- j :iik of ien 'tie must fundamental en- 1 Iglncering faets in the relation of the upper badln to the lower basin. There la a general tendency even on both sides to obstruct by mental deliberation delibera-tion the importance of engineering tacts as they lean both ways, or either ( way. but in time t-he relative weight' of tho rights of each of tho states, I tho relative weight of the different en- 1 glneerlng principles involved, the relative rela-tive weight of the different legal processes pro-cesses that may follow from failure j to make a pact, will all contribute to I drive these stales together with the national government to some solu- tion. "Before adjourning, I wish to express ex-press the obligations of the commission commis-sion to the people of the six states that wc have visited for their hospitality. hos-pitality. We are especially obligated to Governor Carey, to Governor Shoupi to Governor Mabey. to Gov-ernor Gov-ernor Mechem. to Governor Campbell and to Governor Boyle and 1 wish to express my personal obligation to my fellow members of the commission for the flno spirit that they have shown I and the great ability that they have brought to bear on this problem audi I am confident that with a representation representa-tion of this character we will be able I to present some sort of a nact in sun i pie terms that w ill promote the dc-1 I velopment of the C olorado river I basin." I WYOMING WANTS VCTIOIS Frank Emerson, state engineer of Wyoming, presided at Sunday's session ses-sion of the cominlsidun. Governor R. D Carey of Wyoming, addressing the commission, pointed out .t was ImpOS- i slble to do anything without compro- ' mlse, ' Insofar as Wyoming is concerned." said the governor, 'ho desire to protect pro-tect our rights. We have a grave responsibility, re-sponsibility, for we are deciding this important question of water not for today but for all time to come. On the other hand. Wyoming is willing to accept a fair crnproml9e. We warn results from the commission. Wo will do anything to bring about an agfei -ment." N. E. Corthell. a widely known at-, at-, torney of Laramie, reviewed the his-I his-I lory of the law of water, and suggested sug-gested it was inadvisable for the commission com-mission to act hastily. He declared building of dams on the upper reaches of the river would be of great benefit to iho lower basin. Chairman Hoover took issue with Corthell about the desirability of the -.forage ,,n t he upp i river. "Storage capacity." said the chairman, chair-man, "of the upper basin is insuffi-etent insuffi-etent Everything points to the lower basin as more desirable for storage." Governor Einmeit L. Boyle of Nevada Ne-vada questioned W. F. McClure, California's Cali-fornia's member of the commission, as to the amount of lands California could Irrigate. Commissioner McClure Mc-Clure declared California now has 481.000 acres under Irrigation and' 158,000 acres additional are irrigable, making a total acreage In California Involved iu the problem of the river's I waters. 939,000. oo |