The sun., 1917-09-13

tlOn.
Mr. Perkins had not received the let
ter UP to last evening.
brown Answers 'Pretences.
Mr.. Browns reply was as follows:
DEAR SIR To avoid any possible
misunderstanding in the mind Of the pub
lie. l should perhaps reply to your last
advertisement framed as an open letter
to me. You do not think have been
sufficiently explicit about you. I will
endeavor to repair the fault
THE reasons for your rejection as
stated In the Senate would seem to be
sufficient. / will not repeat them. but
confne myself to your letter. which Is q
mass Of Misrepresentation and deceit.
81. Your pretense that you were part
Of a movement to cooperate with Presl-
dent Wilson by the enactment Of a law
In aid Of the Federal Administration in
food production and distribution.
"At an interview with you in the
Executive Chamber near the close OF
the regular session. suggested that any
legislation at Albany should be auxiliary,
supplemental and subordinate to Fed
eral regulation. You scofYed at the sug-
sestion. at the President and Congress,
and urged that New York take inde-
pendent action to outfoot them. al
though 1t was less than two weeks after
war was declared. Such has been your
consistent attitude on this point.
1T now serves your purpose, however,
to mask yourself as cooperating with
Washington. You also praise the Presi-
dent for calling to his aid some men who
have been associated with you in the
Harvester Trust. but nobody has dis
covered when the President placed any
Of these men in control of trade in agri-
cultural machinery and tools.
Calls Perkins "AntaEonistic."
THE point Of objection was not the
placing the organiser Of that trust
in control Of trade in such ma
chinery in this State during the
war. Agricultural machinery and tools
are declared to be one Of the necessaries
Of life in the food law. Your purpose
has never been to cooperate with the
President but to 60 II alone and ahead
Of him. Your antagonism to Washing
ton constitutes one Of the objections to
you at Albany.
'2. Your pretense that opposed food
legislation at Aloany.
''There has been no food bill prepared
at Albany except under my personal di-
rection and principally by me. The first
food bill prepared at the close Of the
regular SeSSlOn lNCOTpOTdteu, HI your
quest, for consideration your wild pro-
posals for purchase and sale by the
State, summary seizures of food stores
and .monopolistic corporations in food
products. You were offended because
would not rush this legislation through
in manuscript or on an emergency mes
sage. without considera ton or hearings
'When it became apparent that there
was to be no opportunity to perfect the
a1uV Vtnv, iart cd Sn eAL
ton at the regular session. On my
motion a committee was appointed to in
vestigate and prepare bill. AZ a mem
ber Of that committee ! visited Ottawa
and Washington for consideration and
study and collected such information as
was available from England and France
for the use Of the committee. The COM
mittee then charged me with the prep
hration Of the bill which was enacted
into law.
Medication in Food Bill.
'Tt Is true that some details Of the
bill were modified on consultation with
the Governor and other members Of the
Legislature but the committee bill was
not changed in its general outline, Your
impracticable and unwse suggestions
which you tried to crowd through the
Legislature. were all rejected. but IL
served your purpose in seeking the Of
nee Of commissioner to publicly an
nounce on the passage Of the bill Z
triumph over the Legislature, as II
serves your purpose now to knowingly
misrepresent my attitude and relation 4
the bill The bill whose passage yo,
praised was in substance the Same bill
you had previously stiSmatized in th'
public press as a sham There IL onl!
one material change-it does not nam
the commissioners.
20. Your pretence that have pur
posely delayed the bill and its enforce
ment.
This Is as false as the rest sough
an arrangement with the Governor .
the close Of the regular session to ex
tend the session for two weeks 50 tina
We might take up and act upon ~thi
legislation, and failed through the oh
lection Of the Governor and the Assem-
bly,. After passing the bill At the ex
traordinary session convening on July 8
the Legislature adjourned to a date nxe
by the Governor (September 81 for tn
purpose Of receiving the nominations.
AFTER your rejection on September
the Senate stood in recess for an hou
and a half to hear from tho Govcrno
and to give him an opportunity IL h
desired to rearrange the commission an
send in a new name in place OF yours
On reconvening word came from tn
Governor that he desired the presen
adjournment, as he needed time.
An these facts are we'll known t
you. You need not be concerned abou
President Schurman and Mr. Wietinl
The Senate was ready to- confirm ther
as soon as word came from the Gov
ernor whether either OF them was TO be
come president Of the commission.
Not Allied with "Hoardeys."
e. Your pretence that ! am workIn
with the middlemen. or. IS you prefs
- speak Of them, the hoarders. gan
blers and spectators who infest th
State
you know that the distributing forcl
OF this State. the produce exchanges
boards OF trade. wholesalers and retail
ers taken together constitute one OF ou
hest forces in citizenship. They an
their employees comprise more tina
100000 souls. with an investment
more than 500.00O,0 900. They have III
men. the equipment, the 9aonsy and u