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state to the other that we would never accept a canner's amendment - it could not be. But it went through the Assembly.

I went to Al Smith to complain about it. “Well,” he said, “I'm afraid that was intended.”

I said, “What do you mean?”

He said, “I can't tell you any more about it, but I'm sure that was intended.” I was learning.

I remember I had an awful twenty-four hours. The way the modern opposition operates is that one bill goes through the Senate, another amended bill goes through the House, and then the House bill comes over to the Senate. If the Senate doesn't accept the House bill, well, then you haven't got a law. If the Senate accepts the House bill, you've got a law, but it isn't the law you wanted. It was a terrible twenty-four hours for me. Everybody that I knew up there, all these men that I'd met, all advised me. I was in constant touch by telephone with our board of directors and lawyers. They all said, “No, we cannot accept it. It's out of the question.”

I remember Miss Pauline Goldmark, one of the members of the board, came up to strengthen me in this fight and to say again that we couldn't accept the canner's amendment.

I talked to McManus, but he was kind of dumb and didn't