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No sir, “Tudor is trying to give away our electricity.” It was the craziest campaign I ever heard, but it shows the state of mind of Maine to giving away something. “This is our own electricity.” They hadn't generated it and had no use for it, but they had a complete misunderstanding of what electricity is.

We also brought in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That brought Gifford Pinchot in. We brought in some other states. We thought that was a good competitive area.

During this conference the idea of a compact between these states, by which they would agree upon certain things by treaty, was developed to a certain extent. That, of course, was a new idea and a very strange idea. I had taken legal counsel on the matter and had discovered that it was probably possible. It was probably legal and a possible thing to do. We had the example, and the legal deductions from this example, of the recently concluded New York Port Authority by which a compact, by that name, had been entered into by the states of New Jersey and New York which agreed to some very fundamental operations for which, except for this compact, there would have had to be legislation in New York State, and legislation in New Jersey, which probably could never have been passed. By making a compact to do certain things it seemed that legislation was not