Show REPUBLICANS I RULED BY THE I Tk PAPER TRUST Speaker Cannon o Champion of I Beneficiaries of High Tariff PUBLISHERS LOSE THE FIGHT AT OUTSET DEPARTMENT OF JUSTl E MUST GIVE RELIEF CONGRESS WILL NOT ACT i I t f f Washington April 2 Senator f ft t Overman of North Carolina today toda t 4 introduced a joint resolution putting 4 4 4 print paper and wood pulp on the thet 4 4 4 free tree list and asked for Its it immediate 4 4 consideration by the senate but Mr 4 4 4 Hepburn objected and on motion 4 4 1 of or Senator Gallinger the resolution 4 4 was cas referred to the committee on 4 4 finance 4 44 t 4 t t t P t t t H t April 2 In his capacity as asH H member of the houses house Speaker Cannon loda day Introduced a resolution directing the general to transmit to the house the tile papers bearing on the th investigation Into the affairs of the print paper trust The resolution is as follows Text of the Resolution Resolved That the attorney general be directed to transmit to the house if Jf not Incompatible with the public service such papers and Information as may ma be In pos possession poss possession session s of or the department showing what steps step If any an have been taken to In Investigate tho the action of or the International Paper aper company compan of New ew York Tork and other corporations Joint stock companies or cor car corporate combinations engaged In the manu manufacture manufacture facture of oC wood pulp or print paper or orthe orthe the sale thereof and what steps have b been en taken to prosecute the said corpor corporation allon or corporations Joint stock cm com companies anIes or combinations for tor violations of the law in case cae reasons for such prose prosecutions may ma have appeared from Inv sti J I gallon Information from the department commerce and labor or otherwise I One for fol Secretary Strauss StraussA A resolution giving similar directions to th the secretary of or the department of com corn commerce commerce merce nerce and labor abor also was Introduced by br bythe bythe the speaker as follows Resolved That the department of com corn commerce commerce merce and labor be directed if I not Incompatible Incompatible with the public service to trans to to th house all papers and i lD n which may be b in the th possession of or orn ofie im n ie department relating to any an steps Ih h mav have been taken by the bu bureau u reap reau of rn to make the dill Kent gent ent Investigation into the organization induct conduct t and management mam gement of or the tho busl busi neis nes of the tho International Paper company compan of Now New York and other corporations joint tock stock companies or combinations engaged in n the manufacture of wood pulp or print paper Iap t or the sale thereof as said bureau of corporations Is authorized to do by b law lawt of t the United States Slates and all the papers nd In his department which are the result of such Investigation if It any such has been made madeSt St Statement of Cannon In ill reply to a question as a to the purpose of the resolution Speaker Canno said laid The duty on print paper is 15 per perc percent percent c cent nt and nd has tal been the same ame since Ince 1890 1899 under the McKInley law the tue V ilson law la and the Dingley law cover a period of or eighteen years It is that the price has been advanced n the last few months largely largel more moretha than tha equal to the duty The publishers of the United Unit d States represented by Herman Ridder Bidder claim that the manufacturers of wood pulp and anti print paper have by b agreement and combination tion even covering arrangements with Canadian manufacturers arbitrarily lim Urn limited lied the production and advanced the Uie price of print paper Can Be Dissolved If the claim ot of the publishers Is cor correct correct the manufacturers of or print paper are subject to penalty and the trust can be dissolved and enjoined by b proceedings In equity In any of oC the United States courts where they the or any an of them can be found foun and If It the claim of the pub Sabers Is la correct the advance in the price is not due to the duty but re from front the illegal trust and ton on If Ie the small duty were repealed It I uld ld not interfere with the illegal trust agreement The object of ot the two resolutions Is Isto isto 1 to ascertain Object to the Resolutions First FI t that the investigation the de tie department tm rit of commerce and labor labors through the bureau of corporations has made if It any touching on the premises i Secondly to ascertain what steps have been een taken by b the department of justice It If any an to investigate touching the prem prom premises promIses isell arid and if It there s reason to believe bellee that the law Jaw has been beon violated or Is being I A what steps are being taken to i enforce the ihA same i iI I Denounced by Champ Clark I Later In the tiie day da Representative Champ I lark Clark Mo to 10 denounced Speaker Cannon and the twelve Republican members of the I committee on ways was and means for per persisting persisting in their refusal to bring In a bill placing wood pulp and white print paper m n the free fr list He said raid that the Re editors and publishers if it they the Were ere worth the powder and shot to kill kin them tb m would lash the speaker chairman and the other Republicans of the com corn committee committee If It they dont do it he ex exclaimed exclaimed claimed HillY timy ought to hold their peace I and vote yot for tor us in n November I Littlefield for the Trust TrustOn On a point of order by b Mr Ir Littlefield of Maine there was stricken from the agricultural appropriation bill today a paragraph authorizing an Inquiry Into the Continued on Page 2 I IBY REPUBLICANS REPUBLICANS RULED BY THE PAPER TRUST Continued From Page 1 subject of ot the best methods for making paper Mr action was denounced by h Mr Jr Hitchcock Neb who declared that the refusal to authorize that in tn inquiry Inquiry was not only a notification to the i I newspapers that the Republicans did not propose to reduce the tariff and compel the paper trust to reduce its price but also that they th stood against any effort to discover if It any an methods or processes of oC making paper could be bo fOund Mund MundAn An amendment offered by Mr lr Mann Ill III was adopted appropriating 1000 to enable the secretary of ot agriculture to test by cultivation such plants as may require tests to ascertain If It they be suit suitable suitable suitable able for making paper un nn |