New Britain herald., 1923-01-25
GERMANY MAKES GOOD ITS THREAT
TO TIE UP RLl7R ZONE RAILROADS;
FRENCH DISCUSS MILITARY A AC77ON
Local Fuel Administrators Are
Asked BY Russell Not to Resign
Declares That Citizens of
thee State Will Need the
Help of the so Officials for
Next Four Weeks at Least

Hartford, Jan, 2b,--fuel Admins
| traitor Thomas w. Russell today asked
the so local fuel administrators in the
state to continue ION the job" despite
! the resignation of himself and his
deputy. Charles w. Jaynes. rendered
to Governor Templeton last night and
which will be accepted.
The letter Mr.. Russell sent TO these
local administrators included copy
of the letter OF resignation referred
to. He added:
THE history of recent events In as
follows: On January we held a con-
ference with the administrators Of the
eight largest cities in the state when
the situation was discussed al length
A vote. seven 20 one was passed stat
ing that the distribution could no
longer be satisfactorily controlled
without the backing of law.
Proposed Law Drafted.
AT my request the attorney gener-
al drafted a law, which would give
us all the powers we thought neces-
sary. Later this draft was slightly
amended and amplified by a lawyer
who is one of our most capable local
administrators, and was approved by
the attorney general.
This amended draft was presented
to the governor for his approval. The
next day, / was shown a redrafted bill
containing several new features. one
of which would have apparently given
us authority to issue orders to the
railroad / Immediately stated that
this power was so drastic that we
would never think of using it, but
that il the legislature wished to pass
the bill in that form it would make
no difference to us.
Recites Recent Events
"On January is the governor sent
special message to the legislature
stating that an emergency existed and
requesting lgislation to assist in con-
trolling the situation.
"On the same day the redraft bill
was handed to the senate leader with
a request for immediate action. This
bill could on that day have been re-
ferred to the judiciary committee.
That committee could have held a
hearing on the following Tuesday the
O1u luSldHl anu q Dlil SOdlu iiaNS
been reported and passed under sus-
pension of the rules on the gath.
Instead, on Tuesday the 23rd the
bill was referred in the senate to the
judiciary committee and this commit
tee finally fixed date for a hearing
some day next week.
"In view of the above history an.
40 oh nf a tn
the enactment OF amy legislation we
are not willing to continue longer in
the position of assuming responsibility |
without any legal power to help us
You local administrators eighty in |
have been serving your fell |
ow citizens without pay and with no |
motive except that of public spirited |
service to your community. Your |
work has been irritating, difficult
md for the most part thankless.
Needed BY Citizens
Your citizens still need your help
md will for the next four weeks. ]
hope you will continue on
he job and am glad to have the op-
,ortunity to take my hat off to you
III, as one of the most capable un-
efish body OF men / have ever seen.
incidentally you may be interested
o learn that the total expenses to
he state covering all the work of the
organization from it's beginning to the
nd of his month have been only |.
even thousand, eight hundred dol
ars. Ex-Governor Lake recently told
ne that he thought we had SAVED
he citizens of the state at least one
undred thousand dollars a month /,