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Show PRINT PAPER MAKERS FIGHT CANADIAN PACT WASHINGTON. Feb. C Manufacturers of print paper faced a lire of questions today when they appeared before the ways and means committee of tho house to argue In favor of tho retention of the present duty imposed upon their product by the Payne-Aldrlch tariff, act rather than the reduction contemplated in the reciprocity agreement with Canada. Roth Republican and Democratic members of the committee plied tho paper men with Inquiries as to why a decrease In the dutv was feared when the reduction eighteen months ago had been followed bv an increase in-crease in the price of paper rather than by a decrease. The general rfeply was that the Increase had been a mere return to normal prices after the low prices Incident Inci-dent to tariff agitation. |