Show a t CULBERTSON NIS Is HEARD ON 1 TARIFF ARiff Tells Commission Why He Resigned SAYS NO FORCE OR ORT T TEMPTATION USED defends Coolidge in Relations Relations Rela Rela- a. a With Body WASHINGTON May 19 AP summoned from Rumania where he Ic Is American minister WilliamS William V S S. S Culbertson former tariff commissioner commissioner com com- missioner today told the special senate Senate enate tariff Investigating committee commit commit- tee fee ee that he resigned from the commission commIssion commission com com- mission because his position had become Intolerable and not because he le was either forced off olf or tempted tempt- tempt ed d otto DEFENDS COOLIDGE lie defended President Coolidge In n his relations with the tariff commission com com- mission and criticized Senator NorIs NorrIs Nor- Nor Ts rIs Is Rep Nebraska who brought bout about about the the Investigation with a seles series series se- se les ries ries ot speeches of In the senate and Commissioner Costigan for using lils its ils private papers without his con con- on- on sent ent These papers he declared were were pu purely ely private and were were never Intended to to be anything else Emphatically denying Senator Norris orrIs charges that efforts were vere made nade at the White House to coerce ilm Im into changing his stand on the he sugar case he asserted that the president never so much as intimated that I change my position in n the sugar case and I never did change it it RESPECTED VIEW The president always ys respected my view Of course I respected Is fey he continued He lie never tried to o urge I me unduly nor was he at any ny time a party to the efforts which Which TV were ere made by disappointed applicants and lobbyists to frighten me Into a more tractable position on n the tariff commission So So far tar as I was ever aware my personal relation with the presIdent president pres- pres Ident dent continues as friendly after he the the Incident concerning the sugar case aee as it was before His attitude attitude atti- atti tude ude tude led me lo to believe that he viewed Jewed the sugar sugar incident as I did namely as an honest difference of of f opinion on what would promote the ie public Interest FOREIGN POLICY i While e r I disagreed at times with with- the fie pr president on tariff and tariff matters I agreed with his Is foreign or policy polley and I was glad glado to o accept under him the post of minister to Rumania I resigned from rom the tarl tariff commission lon therefore there- there fore ore not because I was forced off not ot because I was tempted off oft but I wanted to leave To stay stayn on n th the t tariff commission was w worse th than ban n futile it was to continue to lend nd my name as a a sanction to a situation which for tor me had become intolerable R |