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came about this particular bill. We had the votes and we knew it. By this time Murphy had given the nod to report out the bill. I learned that partly by the underground and partly by hints that Smith gave me. The bill was reported out in the Assembly and in the Senate both. In the Senate it went through at a reasonably early date without amendment and just as it came. McManus was the hero of the occasion, as were Wagner, Jim Foley and the other Democrats who had voted for it. Quite a number had voted for it - a strange number of Republicans we'd won over, including Newcomb and Mayhew Wainwright, who were always for it. That strange Mr. Harvey D. Hinman from Painted post voted for it. I don't think my friend from Oswego ever did, although the man from Buffalo tried to get him to. Henry Grady, a Democrat but conservative, voted for it among other people. He was quite drunk that night, but we got him there and he voted for it. It went through with a good, big vote in the Senate.

Then it had to make its way in the Assembly. There it was a little harder going. The canner's lobby had concentrated on the Assembly where they had, of course, many more members from the upstate cannery districts. They finally got through the canner's amendment to exempt canneries. The Consumers' League and all the rest of the social organizations had proclaimed from one end of the