Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-09-24
ARIZONA AGREES
TO LESS WATER
Will Accept Upper Basin Of
fer of 5000, 900 Acre Feet
on Certain Power Condi-
tions.

DENVER, Sept. 22.-Arizona to-
day accepted the offer OF the up.
per basin Governors OF 100000
acre feet OF water from the main
stream of the Colorado River, thus
surrendering 100000 acre feet
FROM her previous demands, at
taching, however, several strings
Of notable proportions.
She via accept, according to
Commissioner H. S. McCluskey,
who read the lengthy statement,
if her claims to revenue from
Federal-built hydroelectnc power
plants are recognized; if assured
of the waters OF her tributaries,
and if she is not called upon to
surrender water for lands below
the international boundary. What
Is more, Arizona contends that
this acceptance afterwards must
not be used against her provdide
there is NJ settlement of the river
control problems at this confer
ence.
The Arizona reply wSs referred
10 the four upper basin Governors,
along with the California reply
submitted yesterday Inasmuch as
California declined to accept the
offer of 100000 acre feet and
persisted in her demand for the
"irreducible minimum" of $500
900 acre feet, ArizoEa's action
was construed as thrust at the
coastal state, as we'll as def
mite admission that what she is
after is not so much water Tor
irrigable lands as profit from
hydroelectric power.
The Arizona reply given today
is not the one prepared yesterday,
wheE she beat a retreat after
California refused to recede from
her water demands.
AS Arizona seems assured OF
adoption of the States rights res
olution, California apparently can
bring about seven-state ratifica-
tion of the Colorado River COM
pact by surrendering her position
on water division. Tomorrow
morning United States Senator
Pittman's committee will bring in
its report on his states rights
resolution, which proposes that
the rights of the states to their
LANDS an1 waters and reTeEue
from Federal development be rec
ognized. The committee struggled
with the wording and changed
some phrases in order to suit all
hands. Whether or not there will
be extended discussion OF the mat
ter is on the laps OF the go&s, as
six states will vote for it, the Cali
fornia commission. a part OF the
Swing johnson. crew, which wants
the Swing Johnson bill left Alone,
probably declining to vote. Gov.
Young is absent from this meet
ing.
The Arizona statement is a
lengthy affair, inclined to touch
in hysterical manner at times the
realms of history, philosophy and
classical allusion. AS Gov. Hunt
and his cohorts have convinced
his constituents of the rightful-
ness of his contentious, the ex-
tended reply of today Is regared
as being mainly for home con-
sumption. Many accusations are
heaped uRn California, Mr., Nc
Ciuskey indicating his BELIEF that
California already has seized the
whole river, and now asks Arizona
to accept the legal dollar for a
quit claim. He offers again the
suggestion of a dam site higher
up the river, so Arizona highlands
might be irrigated by tunnels and
long bitches. He reiteratesS Ari-
zona's plea for delay in passage
Of the SwiEg-Johnson bill. or any
power development on the lower
river, pending the solution of some
means of acquiring revenue fer the
states.
He takes several digs at the all
American canal, and makes the
statement that 1t was to be fia-
anced through the sale Of power,
and that while it has been con-
tended it will bring water to lands
held for sx-service men, it viii in
truth irrigate the property OF priv
ate corporate owners.
The Swing-Johnson bill will fail
of passage in the next Congress
the statement says, offering to aid
California in any attempt to oh
tain development which will bring
oflk and anna.