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Show TERMS FORCED OT PRESIDENT WILSON Paper Manufacturers Give Up the Fight When the Executive Interferes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Personal action by President Wilson to restore normal prices of print paper and a special spe-cial session of congress to pass remedial legislation confronted print paper manufacturers, man-ufacturers, it became known today, before be-fore thej- gave up their fight against the government 's attempts to restore normal conditions in the trade. The president's intentions were placed before the manufacturers by Secretary McAdoo, who told them that the administration did not intend to see an alleged monopoly through extortionate extor-tionate prices place greater restraints on the press than the government itself was empowered to place. At the same time the federal grand jury in New York was preparing to bring indictments. indict-ments. Relief for publishers from the high cost of print paper apparently was in sight today. The federal trade commission com-mission probably will accept, it was said, the offer of manufacturers to let the commission determine a fair maximum maxi-mum price for paper for the six months following March 1. The manufacturers ' plan was presented pre-sented yesterday just as the commission commis-sion was about ready to report, after an extensive investigation, "that the paper shortage was largely artificial; that prices were extortionate, and that free competition had ceased to exist." Whether the department of justice's grand jury investigation at New York to determine whether manufacturers conspired to raise paper prices will be j stopped has not been disclosed. |