He had been trying to get me to promote a certain Judge X over the head of another Judge Y.I wrote: "There is a strong feeling among the judges and the leading members of the bar that Judge Y ought not to have Judge X jumped over his head, and I do not see my way clear to doing it.

I am inclined to think that the solution I mentioned to you is the solution I shall have to adopt.

Remember the breakfast at Douglas Robinson's at 8:30." There were various measures to which he gave a grudging and querulous assent without any break being threatened.

I secured the reenactment of the Civil Service Law, which under my predecessor had very foolishly been repealed.

I secured a mass of labor legislation, including the enactment of laws to increase the number of factory inspectors, to create a Tenement House Commission (whose findings resulted in further and excellent legislation to improve housing conditions), to regulate and improve sweatshop labor, to make the eight-hour and prevailing rate of wages law effective, to secure the genuine enforcement of the act relating to the hours of railway workers, to compel railways to equip freight trains with air-brakes, to regulate the working hours of women and protect both women and children from dangerous machinery, to enforce good scaffolding provisions for workmen on buildings, to provide seats for the use of waitresses in hotels and restaurants, to reduce the hours of labor for drug-store clerks, to provide for the registration of laborers for municipal employment.