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Norman S. Case was Governor of Rhode Island at that time. He was a Republican. He was tremendously interested. He also asked Douglas and me to draw the preliminary outlines of a bill that would be adapted to the Rhode Island situation where unemployment was getting to be terrible. It's a high manufacturing and textile state. Winant was Governor of New Hampshire and his intentions were good, of course.

William Tudor Gardiner was Governor of Maine. His intentions were good, but I remember his saying to me, “What chance have we got to do that? You know Maine.” I knew that Gardiner would recommend it and that Gardiner would give a good understanding to it, but the chances of doing it were almost nothing. He was defeated for re-election on a project so sensible for Maine. Maine has an enormous amount of water power and can develop a great deal of electricity, which it hasn't got population to absorb. You can make electricity anywhere in Maine because there are ever so many rivers and the falls of the river are at different intervals. Maine hasn't got population enough, or didn't at that time, to absorb all that electricity. His idea was to export it to places like Massachusetts where they were screaming for it and couldn't make any. They just had to run a wire over to Massachusetts and sell them current which can be generated in Maine because they had the power.