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Show -157- manner provided for in the, Act. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized -to make advances from funds appropriated by the Act to the tobacco commission es- tablished in any state entering into a compact under the consent given by this act, and provision is mc.de for the repayment of such advances. The Secretary of Agriculture is also empowered to designate tobacco producers or other persons to meet with the state tobacco commissions for the purpose of advising in con- nection with the administration of any compact which is negotiated. Activities of the States The states which seem to be leading in the development of the ap- plication of state compacts to interrelated state problems are Massachusetts and New Jersey in the east and Colorado in the west. The initiative of Mass- achusetts and its perseverance in drawing up the first of a series of compacts relative to the maintenance of labor standards has already been referred to. This compact has had the indorsement of the national administration as the only means of retaining certain standards established under the code system of the NRA..' , . . • •: - • New Jersey, through its very active and compact-minded Governor, ': Harold G. Hoffman, recontly instigated a move toward the formation of an inter- state pact on.milk. He notified Governor Lehman of New York on March 14., 1935 *"" that New Jersey would give its full support to any equitable plan to end unfair competition in the dairy business which would furnish adequate protection for the welfare of the consumers and producers of his state. The motive for Governor Hoffman's action is found in a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seelig v. Baldwin, 7 F» Supp. 776, order aff*d por curiara. 293 U.. S* 622) "in which it was held that the New York Milk Control Law gave the State Control Board no authority to establish the price for the sale of milk brought in from another state. In view of this decision, Governor HoffSman felt that this could best be handled by a mutual agreement between the sto/tes. In an address delivered in New York Governor Hoffman emphasized thAt the development of interstate compacts is one of the necessary essentials or progressive administration of the nation's affairs in the future, that they represent one of the most progressive steps taken in recent years towards co- ordination of the "various borderline problems of government •" He went on to review the problems and pointed* out that his own state was the first one to appoint an interstate compact commission'. Expressing his belief such a com- mission is best fitted to handle interstate problems of crime, taxation, labor, and motor vehicle legislation, he saidj Legislators of both New York and New Jersey are familiar with, repeated threats made by .industry to move back or forth aoros.s our* borders in response to proposed changes in taxation methods.'" They know, too, by sad-experience that liquor control and crime preven- tion hatf© boen nc.de oxtremeVy <^4?£ieult because of the interstate situation along the Delaware and Hudson Rivers. In the field of motor vehicle regulation we have had numerous conflicts between New York, Nev; Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other states resulting from |