Show The Paper Tariff Washington 13The henrine on tho piper question was reumed before the House committee of ways and means to diy Warner filler concluded his argument ar-gument urging the iiijuslice of removing theduty on wood pulp Erastus Brooks urged the removal of the duty by simply giving proper construction fo the existing exist-ing law The rise in the price of paper was entirely disproportionate to the rise in the pricn of other commodities and was duo to the combination of western manufacturers He believed t > e removal re-moval of the present duty on wood pulp would result in a reduction of at least 2c per pound on printing paper that unless some action of this character was taken by Congress there would be no guarantee that paper might not be freed to most exwtionato prices No duty was imposed im-posed on wood pulp in Eng and where it entered largely into the manufacture of paper 1 1 |