Show DUTY ON OR PULP AND ANID I PAPER AN ANI I 1 OUT OUTLAW rAW DUTY Senator Brown of Nebraska Leads the Fight Against Robber Trust QUOTES FACTS AND FIGURES IN PROOF WEAK DENIALS BY ALDRICH ND HALE DEBATE TO BE RE RESUMED RESUMED SLIMED TODAY Washington June 17 The fight to place wood pulp and print paper upon the free tree list lIet was opened up In the senate today under the leadership of Senator Brown ron of Nebraska Going over to the portion of the chamber in which Senators Aldrich Hale Frye Lodge Gallinger Smoot and an other leaders have their seats the Ne Xe Nebraskan stood Mood in the midst of the opposing opposIng ing log force toree and with good nature parried thrusts that came to him from all quarters quarters quarters as he be delivered a telling speech in behalf of the cause he had espoused Told Them the Facts Showing familiarity with all available information on the wood pulp and paper schedule Mr lIr Brown frequently quoted quote l from various authorities to sustain his contention that wood pulp and print paper are both produced in the United States with cheaper chea r labor and cheaper material resulting In a cheaper product than can be obtained in Canada Turning to his Republican colleagues he asked them how in view of that fact they could Justify a duty on these prod products products products for the protection of labor Flatly Contradicted Senator Aldrich and Senator Hale flat flatly flatly flatly ly contradicted these statements In ref reference reference reference to wages and cost of production They insisted that the Mann committee of the house of ot representatives from which Mr Brown quoted was lacking In Inaccurate Inaccurate accurate testimony and contended that even accepting that report it could not be maintained that the United States had hadan hadan an sn advantage in the production This dis die dispute dIspute rn r n along for two hours There TIler Them was a large attendance of Dem Democrats Democrats Senator Oilman asked how It was that newspaper newspapers Advocating a protect protective protective tive tire tariff desired free trade in fn the ma materials materials materials they the use Tillman Butts In InThey InThe InThey They The are humbugs the South Caro Cam Carolinian linian declared Senator Bailey suggested that an amendment should be drawn giving the benefit of free tree paper to free trade pa papers paI papers pers pera and levying a duty on paper used by I protective tariff journals Mr Brown still Ill held the floor when the senate adjourned earlier than usual to permit a tlc caucus lire Hie will re resume rb resume sume consideration of ot his amendment nt for tor free tree paper tomorrow The senate adopted the window glass schedule placing a lower duty than Ulan la is provided by b the Dingley law or the house bill Hilt Because of intense competition by Ger to manufacturers the duty on illus i ti tl Grated postcards was increased per percent perI percent cent above the Dingley law lawne I The ne schedules relating to lithographic papers pap rs calendars clear cigar bands and such products product were adopted Senator Browns Speech Denouncing as Inexcusable and inde lode feasible any proposition of ot the finance committe committee to increase the low rate fixed by the house bill for tor the protection of the print paper Industry Senator Brown of ot Nebraska declared that that Industry needs need no protection These paper mills be Insisted Instated have hae an advantage over oer every foreign print mill whether they are in Scandinavia Germany or Canada Canada is our only competitor in this market said Mr Brown The spas seas s as and the inferior product t of other countries ton tin Canada protect the mills of or the United States against 11 competition worth mentioning This l question depends on the cost coat of production at home and abroad If Jr the foreigners can manufacture ture tute print paper for tor less than it costs Americans that amendment of the finance committee might find justification tion If the fact tact be as I shall ahall prove it Is that print paper is being made at a aless aI alees less lees I cost here then than elsewhere then any am duty in any amount is wholly wrong wro g in m In principle and unendurable and extortion extortionate ate in practice Cost In Canada Canada had an n Investigation R into the subject in 1101 which shOwed owed that the American mills milia had an advantage of I f Iper iper per ton t In the cost of production of t paper Following that report the man maD manufacturers of ot Canada petitioned their government to continue the S per cent I ad valorem duty on paper importations The statement of the Booth mills in Canada shows the cost of production to be Wll 1411 per pel ton The testimony I the house hou e committee shows the cost OIt per ton of ot the print paper made By D the In Paper company of ot the United States sates to be 2771 Another significant I fact shown in to the hearings bearings before the I house committee is that western pub ushers lishers bers testified that they bought paper peper from the Booth mills in Canada and paid the duty and then got It for tOI less lees than they could have purchased It from the trust frost Our consul in the province of Quebec reported that the laborers In the Can Canadian Canadian Canadian adian mills mill receive as high if not trot higher wages wac than those tho e in American Amerlean mills It ItIs Itis Is hi undisputed by the testimony taken by this committee that many of ot the work worl workmen workmen men In the Canadian mills are American Amerlean citizens and receive higher wages than when In the United States Question of Wages In news print paper mills mill In Inthis Inthis this th country cotry he said there are em employ emmes mes ploy white while the newspapers new Dew papers and periodicals periodicals cals cIa using their output employ persons Every one oae of these newspaper employee employee he M said is affected by the Increase e In the price of paper which has haa taken place In Inthe Inthe inthe the lat last Ja t mw years y rs The print paper mills milts hi In had lis an annual pay y roll of 18 11 while the pay roll of the Continued on Page 10 DUTY ON PULP AND PAPER AN OUTLAW DUTY I Continued from Page 1 pers and periodicals in 1905 was as The testimony te before the house committee com committee committee said Mr Ir Brown shows that the International Paper company Itself went into Canada and aud purchased JL large amount of print paper to keep the th f Ameri American can publishers from buying it It and this they the parcelled out among their foreign customers Because of this purchase of foreign paper the trust had too great a supply on hand and was compelled to shut down paper machines while the surplus was being consumed in American presses And the protected laborers on these machines were re compelled to find other jobs The paper industry has grown and pros prospered prospered prospered he said until today American mills produce more than tons tona of print paper annually and are able to sup supply supply supply ply the American market Ground wood pulp Is made very largely the spruce tree with a limited amount from the hemlock tree he said The spruce is already nearly exhausted In the tIM United States The government forest service estimates that there are fifteen million acres of or spruce forests east of the Rocky mountains The spruce on the Pacific coast is more valuable for lumber and is used only in limited quan quantities titles for tor Dr making paper Senator Brown drew the following con eon conclusions at the end of his argument Our pulp supply is nearly near exhausted The pulp wood supply of Canada Is apparently Inexhaustible Free putt putu would tend to conserve our pulp wood The T e production cost of pulp paper is less in the United States than it is ia in Canada A A ton of news print paper costs in i I l Canada to manufacture in the i United States Stales Stal s it rH 74 per ton I The he print paper market Is controlled In the United d States by b combination and II whatever duty the law may fix will m as aa assist assist slat the combination in that control in violation of the law to the injury and andI outrage of the public I By reason of such control the cost of print rent paper to the consumer has been arbitrarily arbitrarily advani adan ed d to an unreasonable and unconscionable price profit to the manufacturer Print paper advanced ed from 23 38 In 1907 to t 42 and 50 0 per ton Iri In 1008 The importation of ef print paper for all time has been negligible The proposed duty on pulp and print paper is s therefore not necessary for protective purposes nor useful for revenue purposes It is there therefore therefore therefore fore an outlaw duty dut and should be stricken from the bill |