Edited sentence: After being re-elected in the 1930 election, things began to get worse for Brownlee.After winning the 1926 election for the UFA, Brownlee achieved a number of successes.Agricultural prices collapsed, throwing many of Alberta's farmers into abject poverty.At the request of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) caucus, he took over from the indecisive Herbert Greenfield (in whose cabinet he had served as Attorney-General).Bennett named Brownlee to the Royal Commission on Banking and Currency as a representative of western interests and unorthodox viewpoints.Brownlee tried to broker deals between farmers and banks, but found neither side eager to compromise.His government also introduced a controversial sexual sterilization program to prevent the mentally disabled from procreating.In 1928 he divested the government of the money-losing railways it had acquired after the syndicates that founded them went out of business, by selling them to Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.In 1929 he signed an agreement with the federal government that transferred control over Alberta's natural resources to its provincial government, which had been a priority of Brownlee's three immediate predecessors as Premier.In 1933, Prime Minister R.In 1934 Brownlee was sued for the seduction of Florence MacMillan, a family friend and a secretary in his government's attorney-general office.In deference to public outrage over the charges, John Brownlee resigned as premier July 10, 1934, and was succeeded by Richard Gavin Reid.In this capacity Brownlee travelled the country questioning witnesses, especially bankers and farmers.MacMillan claimed that she and Brownlee had carried on an affair for three years.Political radicalism increased, as communism, the new Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and William Aberhart's social credit movement all gained new adherants.The UFA itself elected as its president radical socialist Robert Gardiner.This was part of his program to balance the provincial budget, at which he was successful beginning in 1925.Though Brownlee denied MacMillan's story completely, and though his lawyer exposed some inconsistencies in cross-examination, the jury sided with MacMillan.Urban unemployment shot up, and the government had no choice but to return to deficit spending.While he concurred with the commission's ultimate recommendation for the creation of a central bank, he also made a series of recommendations of his own, including that the central bank be controlled entirely by the government