The border vidette., 1928-03-31
GOV. GEO. w. P. HUNT MAKES
STATEMENT ON DAM BILL


STATEMENT ON DAM BILL
! Under date of March 16, Gov.
Geo. w. P. Hunt sent OUT the.
following statement concerning
the action of the house of repre-.
sentatives in reporting favorably
on the Swing-Johnson Boulder
Canyon Dam bill. The state
ment follows:
The lower house of congress
has reported the Swing Johnson
Boulder Canyon Dam bill to the
house with the expected favor
able recommendation. This had
been long anticipated.
It was not expected, however,
that the committee on reclama
ton, which had the bill in charge
would accompany it's recommend
alton that the bill do pass with
the most insincere report that
has ever been made by house
committee to the main body.
The accompanying statement of
the committee bristles with false
statements, misinterpretations
and half truths. The report is a
mass Of sanctimonious deceit.
! The report of the reclamation
committee to the house is dis
grace to the congress of the Tn.
tied States. Itsets forth as facts
and truths statementafter state.
I ment, the falsity of which was
shown by reliab bic witnesses and
expert testimony before the com
mittee. Ia the face of over,
whelming evidence presented
showing the lack of foundation
of the major arguments of Cal
ifornia for the bill, the commit
tee makes an acquiescent report
that contains statements which
| it is difficult to believe emanated
from men of integrity and in
telligence.
| The report states that the
| additional time granted by the
/ committee to enable the river
commission of the seven Colora.
do river basin states TO continue
| their negotiations for compact
allocating thewaters of theriver
among the states had brought
| no intimation of the perfection
/ of any agreement"
i But it fails to tell all the truth
/ by stating that failure to reach
| an agreement by the states was
due entirely to the adamantine
position of California in demand
ing the liens share of the river
and refusing to concede single
point in the interests of a com
promise.
! The committee did not hesitate
to make a deceitful appeal to
human sympathy by stating in
it's report that the protection of
human life and property in I'm
perial Valley, California, which
is under constant menace of de-
struction from treacherous and
/ IlVCI dS Uu0 pal
amount purpose of the bill.
Any person who has followed
the shifting developments in the
Colorado river controversy
knows this to be untrue. The
committee knows that it untrue.
They know, as does everyone
else who is at all familiar with
the subject, that the main OBJ
jective of the Swing johnson
bill is to corfscate the water and
power resources of Arizona and
Nevada tor the benefit and use
of California and American own.
ed lands in Mexico.
The further statement of the
committee that one Of the justi-
fications for the passage of the
bill is that navigation would
thereby be improved on the Col
orado river is only another shall.
low pretense, as shown by their
qualifying statement that the
river in it's regulated form will
be susceptible to use by power
boats and other small craft"
Imagine a committee of the
Congress of the United States
seriously putting forth the pro
position that the taxpayers of
the United States are going to
dig up $125, ,000. 900 to make the
Colorado river navigable for mo-
tor boats and canoes
The crowning and eliminating
untruth in the committee report