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Show differences in our respective laws and regulations« He further declared that those states which have established inter- state compact commissions have definitely marked "the entrance of the United States upon a new phase of representative government." "With the New Jersey and Massachusetts legislatures taking the lead in the establishment of interstate compact commissions, Nebraska, North Caro- lina, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire have also established through legislation similar commissions. No less than seventeen other states have standing committees which have the power and the authority to negotiate com- pacts. It is safe to say that through representation in national organizations every one of the forty-eight states is on record as active in the development of the compact field as applied to its own particular needs. In some of the states, bills contemplating the establishment of such commissions are pending. Colorado Vtras the first western state to establish an interstate compact com- mission. Former Governor Tv'inant of New Hampshire, in an address before the New England Council, pointed out that state compacts could be applied to inter- state problems of health, standards for agricultural commodities, and trans- portation problems, and concluded: "If we plan to stop the increasing trend toward centralization we must in some way provide for the efficient handling of such matters by the states. People turn to the federal government for action when and because they fail to get satisfactory action by the States." In October, 1935, the New Jersey Commission of Interstate Cooperation arranged a nation-wide crime conference to study into ways and means of pro- moting law enforcement throughout the country. An Interstate Crime Commission was created with Judge Richard E6a.rtsborne of New Jersey as chairman. The Con- ference "Indorsed the use of interstate compacts as an appropriate and effective means of aooperation between the several states in the supervision of probation- ers and pa-rolees«w It recommended that uniform compacts be drawn and that studies be* made of forms of compacts on subjects of interstate interest, and outlined various provisions for consideration in drawing up compacts. In November, 1935* a joint meeting of representatives of the Com- missions on Interstate Cooperation of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania was held f*or the purpose of discussing among other things the application of interstate* agreements or compacts to crime control, milk regulation, water pollution/ taxation and liquor regulation. The Federal Motor Carrier Act of 1935* while not embodying provisions for intersstate compacts, contemplates closer cooperation in the regulation of motor carr-iers by the establishment of joint state boards. In an article in State Government for December, 1935* it t"818 said: Y/hat is most needed, however, is the building up of the basic machinery of interstate cooperation. Commissions on Interstate Cooperation should be established in every state-and those commissions |