The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02
u. $. CHAMBER
 ! OF COMMERCE HAS
 NEW PRESIDENT
ROosevelt's Friendly Ene-
 my Elected - Secretary Hull Got Back at Critics

By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press stan COrrespoRdenf)
 Washington, May 2- (UP)-. Business as represented by the United States Chamber of Com merces and the Roosevelt adrninis- tratoion appeared at the parting of the ways today. The chamber elected as its new chief, Harper Sibley, a friendly enemy of Presi- dent Roosevelt, to carry on a viz orous fight against the new deal.
 President Roosevelt withheld the customary White House message to the convention of business men from all parts of the United States. The chamber met in it's final con- vention session to adopt strongly worded resolutions criticizing the new deal. <
 President silent
 Some significance was attached to the speech of Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the final session He denounced selfish business in terests. No official announcement was made, but the chief execu- tiye's silence created interest Heretofore, the president has either sent a message or appeared in per son before the chambers annual meeting.
 Sibley's election as president of the chamberf, succeeding Henry l. Hartman, virtually was by ac- clamation. As c successful busi- nessman farmer, and banker who believes that governmental regu- lation of business has gone too far, he had no opposition.
 He pledged himself to seek full fillment of the convention's man. dates, urging modification of the pending banking bill, cersuring the measure outlawing utilities'holdinG companies, and demandin further thought on the part of congress before President Roosevelt's social security program Is turned into law.
 schoolmate of Roosevelt
 Thetal.. grayreyed Sibley, 2 schoolmate of President Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard. and resi- dent of Rochester, N. T., said he considered the new deal merely 2 bridge to future prosperity. He said that the president had done a magnificent job in the dark days of 1893. expressing in the same breath his fears that MT RooSe- welt now is going too far.
 Election of Sibley and presenta . ton of the resolutions followedrtwo days and nights of oratory--hun- dreds of thousands of words di- rected in one way or another against MT Roosevelt's recovery program.
 Hull Turns the Tables
 Then, when the 2,000 delegates had said all that there was to be said in criticism of the administra- : lion. Hull turned the tables on them. In an unusually frank and caustic address, he accused busi- neses itself of running the nations export trade, through its selfish in- sistence upon tarift protection.
 He called the collapse of world trade one of the most important factors in prolonging the depres- sion and said:
 "The tendency to seek special preferences abroad is coupled with the stubborn and frequently un- scrupulous resistence encountered by the government when even the most moderate reduction in a tarir is proposed, regardless of how clearly this may be to the advan- tage of the country as a whole.
 'The pressure which is currently being brought upon both legisla- tors and offfcials in Washington by those who fear that they are to be deprived of even a small part of the artificial advantage given them by an over-indulgent government too often at the expense of efficient producers and consumers in gen. eral. would incline one to believe that much of the sturdy 'seff-reli- ance, hardihood, and vigor of this country are definitely on the de- rliua"