Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
.GRUNDY IS QUOTED
AS CALLING HOOVER
!. SHY IN KNOWLEDGE
SIurring Remarks Said to
Have Been Made Before
Wool Meeting in 1923.
LOBBY COMMITTEE
PUTS WORDS IN RECORD
Views Not Nine" President
Hobbs of Association Declares
on Stand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Testimony that Joseph r. Grundy
now Republican Senator from Penn
sylvania, had said at meeting of the
National Association of Wool Manufac-
| turers prior to Herbert Hoover's inau-
guration that the latter never ran for
even the Office of dog catcher and
doesn't know anything at all from ex-
perience what legislation means" was
given today to the Senate lobby COM
mittee.
Grumpy was quoted in a speech be-
fore the wood manufacturers on Deem
Der ID, 1928, as expressing concern be-
cause of the President-elect's lack of
knowledge of legislative procedure, and
because his mind runs on many other
subjects than economic subjects"
The Pennsylvania Senator, until he
was named to succeed William S. Ware,
was vice president of the American
Tariff League, and as such gave lengthy
testlm ony before the Senate lobby COM
mittse.
Was mot My View"
Franklin W. Hobbs of Boston, presi-
dent of the Wool Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, was on the stand when
Grundy's speech was introduced into
the record from the minutes of the
wool association, and he remarked that
this view of President Hoover was mot
my view"
I'VE have had hard enough times, u
Grundy said, when we have had Presi-
dents who have had experience in eco
nomic problems, with tariff and taxa
ton and things like that, let alone a
man who has never had any experience
OF that kind that we know.
To get what we know is essential
for the continuance of our business,
and not only for the continuance of it.
but for the development and for the
expansion of it, and of what has been
responsible for the great growth and
development of the country to the point
OF where we are today"
They are the personal views of
Senator Grundy and not of the associa-
tion," Hobbs added.
Views From Minutes.
The minutes also quoted Grundy as
In Congress, from my experience.
the fellow that makes the most noise
and the fellow that makes the most
demands, that keeps his problem In
front of them all the time. he gets
service. If he doesn't; If he depends
on some body else to do it for him. he
is going to get what we all get when
we don't go after the thing the way we
ought to-nothing.
There Is no use of our preparing
schedules If we are going to allow Com
gress to drift along and let somebody
get TO Mr.. Hoover and influence him
70 let the thing 60 until Fall, and not
get it done as quickly as possible, as it
ought to be done"
Asked what he thought should be
done before Congress, Hobbs said:
think we should present to the
committees of Congress our views of
the situation That's ALL"
Everybody Till agree with that"
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana,
said, but they should then go home
Just as lawyers do when they appear
before the Supreme Court"
Views on Women.
The minutes also purported to give
Grundy's views on women as related to
the tariff. He was quoted as saying:
Then we have the electorate
adulterated by about one-fourth or 40
per cent of the women, who never
who, think, from natural instinct,
| because they have been left to believe
that it makes things that they buy cost
more, are not sympathetic with u.s."
Hobbs said the wool association had
a representative in Washington, James
P. Reynolds. who, he said, was a close
friend of former President Coolidge and
former secretary of the Republican
national committee.
Did his intimacy with the White
House have anything to do with your
employing him?" Walsh asked.
mot the slightest" Hobbs replied.
The witness said Reynolds was paid
$4,000 year, but he had done nothing
in regard to the tariff bill, being en-
gagged in other matters He has beer
with the association 10 years, Hobbs
added.
Questioned about the budget of the
association last year, Hobbs said about
$4,000 was expended, but he was not
asked how much was spent on the tariff
| bill.
Hobbs said he and other members Of
the association represented it in tariff
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