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...through an all-night filibuster on the Boulder Dam bill; laid it over as first unfinished business of the Senate next session (see below...
...Passed a resolution instructing the Secretary of the Interior to have the Boulder Dam project surveyed anew and report next autumn; sent the resolution to the House...
Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...
...causes of Boulder Dam controversy...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...