Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-01-28
OFFER IS
ACCEPTED
BY Swing;
Would Grant Additional
Protection to Upper Bias
in States.
JOHNSON is READY
Prepares to Call Bill
Up in Senate Early
Next Week.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

WASH NGTON. Jan. IS The
! House Irrigation Committee will re
/ port out the SWING Johnson Bould
or Dam bill the first week of the
! 10Th congress next December if the
. House Rules Committee continues to
! hold up the measure at this session,
Chairman Smith, Republican, Idaho.
, said today.
! This action would insure House
! action next session. The crowded
! calendar this session caused pro
! poncnts of the measure to ask the
! Rules Committee to ask for q spc-
| cial right Of way for floor consid-
! Grafton, but that committee has de
I laycd action rs a result of Utah S
! withdrawal from the Six State Col
orado River Compact aud other OPP
position on the Boulder Dam pro-
jcct.
/ Smith said his committee would
! not sanrt on intyaductiou of the dis
! puted Lcatherwood amendments,
! proposing federal power commission
supervision Of power generated at
the dam, and eliminating the pro
! posed govcrnmcnt-built power plant
/ Representative Swing, Republican,
California, co.author of the measure,
i today issued statement agreeing
to the Cotton amendment to give
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico more prot, ction. of water
! rights. but did not yield from his
support of the other features of the
bin in its present form.
4 Senator Hiram johnson, Republi-
can, California. the other sponsor or
the bill, intends to call 1t up IN the
senate as soon as the privileged ap-
! propriation bills are out Of the way
! probably next week.
The Cotton amendment approved
bv Swing specifies that the provi-
sions of the Colorado River Com
pact will be applied to and observ-
ed by all future projects on the rlv,
or, including those under federal
mower act authorization.
! as to the Boulder dam PROJECT
itself. there can be no doubt bu'
that bv the terms of the bill 1t IS
:, be- built and operated strictly un.
! der the limitations of tine compact
Swing said. ct was pointed OUT
/ bv Vtah ut the hearings before the
rules committee, however, that
! there was a possible danger from
licenses and permits that might be
granted by the federal water COM
mission and this amendment was
drafted to cover that possibility.
, We are glad to accept II just as we
have accepted all the other amend.
ments which have been Suggested
to give the upper basin states the
benefit and protection of the terms
of the Colorado River compact.
81 have felt all along that the
action of the Utah Legislature IN
withdrawing from the Colorado
River compact was the result of a
misunderstanding regarding our at
titudc. | want to repeat that the
proponents of the legislation A.
piad for Utah to have this add
tional assurance. With this point
cleared up and with Utah s rights
under the compact completely safe
guarded, shall confidently expect
Utah to re-ratifv the Colorado R'v-
or compact.
Congressman Phil d. Swing he
lieves it will be impossible to get
the Swing johnson bill before the
House until after February 7, ac'
cording to n telegram received here
this morning by the FL Centre
/ Chamber of Commerce.
The telegram is in answer to on"
sent Wednesday by Secretary Car
michael at the direction of the
board of directors, offering the co
operation of the chamber IN any