The New York herald., 1921-11-15
CHANDLER DEFENDS
FORDNEY MEASURE
Denies Suggestion of DR..
Laughlin That Bill Is an
Object Of Trickery.

Repres sentative Walter NJ. Chandler, in
the principal address at dinner in
the Waldorf-Astoria last evening to
protest the american valuation. pro-
vision OF the Fordney tariff bill. de-
clared that If mistakes had been made
in the passage OF that tariff legislation
they We're the result OF "bad Judgment
and bad information" He denied en-
phatically the suggestion Of Dr.. James
Laurence Laughlin. professor emeritus
of political economy in the University
OF Chicago. that the Fordney bill had
been the object of trickery and that a
Bourbon group dominated Congress. lie
also took exception to DR.. Laughlin' s
Interpretation of the elections last week
as indicating disapproval of the work
OF Congress.
If mistakes were made. ard believe
they We're made" said Mr.. Chandler,
they were not due to trickery but to
bad Judgment and bad information. The
Congress of the United States is not bad
and not Bourbon, but it has gone after
strange gods"
Mr.. Chandler then wen. on in defence
of protective tariff policy. but attacked
the American valuation clause Of the
Fordney bill with the charge that ii
created monopoly
Similar unrcserved condemnation per-
vaded the other addresses, which were
made by Thomas J. Doherty, former
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw and DR.. Laugh
lin. The dinner was arranged by the
National Council of American Importers
and Traders. Inc.
Nearly 1000 representatives Of both
commercial and civic organizations. in
Guiding business Representatives from
Chicago. Philadelphia, st. Louis and
Cleveland took advantage OF the occa
sion TO voice their protest against the
valuation clause OF the tariff measure
Resolutions condemning the American
valuation provisions as "a menace &c
the prosperity and welfare OF the Amer
lean people" We're unanimously adopted
"The women of the United States
above all other countries, have reason to
be thoroughly aroused against the pro
posal of the Fordney tariff bill" said
Mrs Laidlaw. speaking in behalf Of the
National Consumers Committee oi
Women. "It matters not whether a
woman is wage Garner or the head oi
family. This bill affects her particular
work as homekeeper. Buttons an6
! thread are included in this iniquitou:
tariff measure. All the things that rep,
resent her particular home economics
are pushed UP in price beyond all rea
son. Even the woman working in the
factory, where she has to buy her owr
needles, is going to have. a few moro
cents squeezed out of her. to the amount
that represents. say. her farfare or her
daily bread ration
A resolution supporting the efforts OF
the American delegates In the armament
conference as adopted by the Women's
Council for Disarmament and informal
ly offered by Mrs. Laidlaw was adopted
as an expression OF the attitude of those
at the dinner.
Among those present were Lee Kohns.
president or the New York Board of
Trade and Transportation Lew Hahn,
secretary of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association Theodore Jones,
George Haven Putnam, N. Il. Franklin.
president OF the National Council OF
American Importers and Traders
George Il. Wilson. vice-president of the
Hartman National Bank, who was
POSTMASTER; Russell r. Whitman OF the
New York Commercial: Horace 7. Saks.
a. w. Willnan and William s. Pitcairn.
!. Also Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins. Mrs.
John Blair. secretary Of the Women S
City Club; Mrs. Pierre Jay, Mrs. Henry
Moskowitz, secretary Of the National
Consumers Committee of Women; Mrs.
George Haven Putnam, Mrs. Raymond
V. Ingersoll, Mrs. George r. Van Nance.
Miss Frances Perkins and Miss Flor
ence NJ. Marshall.
Messages indorsing the purpose of the
dinner were received from John Wana-
maker. Samuel w. Vauclain, the Chi
cago Association of Commerce. Otto II.
Kahn, Dr. George /. Sand. president
of the Arkansas State Farmers Union,
and Eugene \. Foss, former Governor
Of Massachusetts.