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Show : APPEAL TO CONGRESS FOR NEEDED ACTION Rejirosciitatires " of Hie Great Newspapers Point Out Evil of the Paper Trust. NEW TOR If, April 21. Tho annual meeting ol! Ihe As&iicinicd Press wat? held at the Waldorf-Astoria hoi el today with an exceptionally larirc attendance of members from over' section of the country. Aside from the transaction of purely rontino business affecting the organization, the most important action taken was the presentation and adoption adop-tion of an address asking I lie PrcsFdent and Congress to "grant immediate relief re-lief from (he exactions of combinations of papernmkers. " The address as adopted is as follows: " RoproHcntativcs of 77-1 daily newspapers news-papers gathered at the annual meeting of tho Associated Press respectfully ask the President and Congress to grant immediate relior from the exactions nt combinations of papcrmahcrs. In September. Sep-tember. 11107. and again in November. 1007, iho attention of the authorities was directed to tho excessive prices then demanded by the paper combination, combina-tion, linp'cdiatcly upon tho aspombliii" of Congress twenty or more bills aimed ro correct these conditions and to put pnper and pulp upon the free list were introduced nnd referred to the ways and moans committee. Persistent efforts ef-forts to obtain a hearing havo been refused. re-fused. Dilatory tactics have been cm- ployed to prolong present conditions and to carry over to another session of ConcrcFS every proposition designed for relief. All newspapers here represented protest against the delay. False Prico Reports. "Attention is also directed to the false reports of news print paper price. which were recently furnishod to Cou-gress Cou-gress bv tho director of the comma bureau, bu-reau, "the newspapers here represented use approximately 80 per cent of tho news print papor consumed in the United States. We dononnce tho quotations quota-tions as submitted to Congress as misleading mis-leading and unworthy of credence. The reiteration of the accuracy of these fig-uros fig-uros of the director after the error had be3ii called to public attention tends to shake public ennfidonco nnd respect uf statistics thus compiled." Tho choosing of directors resulted in the re-election of the five directors whose terms had expired, as follows: Charles IT. Crasly, Baltimore Evening News. W. R. "Nelson, Kansas City Star. W. L. McLean, Philadelphia Bulletin. George Thompson, St. Paul Dispatch. Adolph S. Ochs. New York Times. Xo change in the present rules uid regulations of the service were made. The Associated Pres and the American Ameri-can Nowspipor Publishers' association will sit down to a join banquet tomorrow tomor-row night at. the Waldorf-Astoria, at which William J'. Bryan will bo tho chief speaker. |