Stanford University Libraries [COMMITTEE PRINT] 3 6105 119 629 868 DIGEST OF CERTAIN SUPREME COU STATEMENT OF THE CHAIRMAN To the Members of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insur The members of the committee will recall that during eac hearings in the 84th Congress on S. 863, Senator Ba water rights settlement bill, I suggested that a digest of the of the United States Supreme Court pertinent to by the proposed legislation would be helpful to 220 2 Senator Barrett himself stated that in enacting his bil would be "acting as a court of last resort" with recent decisions of the Supreme Court, such as tr Pelton Dam, First Iowa, and Twin City cases. We are in effect overruling the Supreme Court over er Senator Barrett stated in describing his bill— and to my way of thinking the Supreme Court is gads back on the beam, and we will attend to our be would be better if the Court would stick to s po a That is the whole thing in a nutshell. It was in order to try to understand Sec prior rulings with respect to the relations and the States in the acquisition, con States that I requested Elmer F. Benzer 2 the Department of the Interior, to c I repeated the request in the hea bill (S. 555). Mr. Bennett, who is the Solicitor has sent me such a compilation in the hope that it may be as mittee as I know it will be :: :: made of it. approval. Publication of the |