ABSTRACT
As Franklin D. Roosevelt rode home from his Chicago triumphs, the Auburn penitentiary broke out in another revolt which exposed how little had been done since the riots of the previous summer. Only the day before, The Times had demanded that Roosevelt match words with "works." Roosevelt faced the Legislature with confidence. He offered co-operation but he taunted them relentlessly. Louis Howe tackled the job of comparing consumer rates for the public power area of Ontario and the private power area of New York. The idea had come from the State Conservation Department, but Roosevelt was enthusiastic. Roosevelt suspected that his enemies' show of co-operation was only a dodge to bail the dangerous issue out of politics for the 1930 election. Roosevelt might dismiss the majority report as a "wishy-washy document." Frankfurter might protest that it had lacked the courage to adopt the "conclusions of its own analysis."
