Show ROAST Of PAPER TRUST BY NORRIS I Says it Overcharges Newspaper News News- Publishers publishers' Six Million Nillion Nil Mil paper lion Dollars Yearly BUYS LAND INSTEAD I OF IMPROVING PLANTS I Closes Mills lills and MarKet MarRet I Starves p to Boost Prices WASHINGTON Feb Teb 22 The The pulp of ot the thc Canadian reel reel- d paPer clause claUZe agreement was wa defended before r the tte finance nance committee of ot the senate by byJ John J hn Norris chairman of ot the paper I 3 ommittee 8 of ot the American Ne Newspaper aper publishers association He elaborated ed tie thi arguments w which ch he lie presented in inthe the same behalf ehl before fore the tho ways waya and K meW mans en c committee of or the house houie of ot rep rep- r s declaring that ho spoke for newspapers which pay per pr annum for the print paper 6 6 o oooO more than they would pay if conditions were permitted He e especially upon the following t The increase of a ton in the theof fp iee of prin paper by paper makers ite th the h enactment of ot the Payne Payne-Md- UnA rl tariff law aw notwithstanding the ilie roof rec ro re- re- re diction c on of per ton in the duty the increase of price from 32 32 to 45 45 a aon oi oD on since ainee two thirty-two mills were merged 4 i t th the Iho International Paper company the th aUe alleged d effort of paper makers maker to ft irve the market and increase e prices prees the complete upon sd for pulp wood to keep the paper mills mills' going the mac inac- em e character of information supplied supplied supplied sup sup- I plied to senators about the supply of wood d in various arious parts of ot the Unit Unit- led fed States the somewhat higher labor fust Md in Canada of makin making a ton of d paper the ability o of American in to t to ta mate make make paper cheaper than can Canadians i the toe failure of wood from to obtain pulp p and nd the effective application of ot per sper clause dause in tho tho- pending g agree agree- oo- oo tto to the serious situation now conD con- con Gating D American paper papel users t Array of t Facts p Mr Mi Norris submitted an mar amy of exhibit exhibits in support of hie his argo IUds These included include much that was before the w ways s 's and means l committee recently and also important which h he be said ho bo submitted No to the con congressional committees in hm agog 1909 Kt Julu Au August and September Septem Septem- ber ber lut Mr Norris orris said the larger larRer paper companies refused to to o quote any pees for the year car 1911 Subsequent Subsequent- 17 ly Iy an aD s agreed reed and uniform price of 45 45 per J-per ton ron was demanded by them The luger er user of printe paper in the Unit- Unit States whose contract will wilt soon expire ex ox pire will will probably pay an advance ance of f per pcr annum upon hi his present time Lar Largo o. o newspapers whose con con- are arc expiring are unable to obtain da at any price except from the mill millow BOW ow supplying them What else can we expect when whon conUs cont con- con t Us fattens and fosters concerns like the h International Paper company which together two thirty mills most nr 1 which were tributary to denuded timber tim Um- ber tracts and to exhausted water It consolidated th them ra into what I 11 now noir a sixty dollar corpor- corpor tion most of its Its' capitalization tenting water It took over paper a. a but ill IB now op operatIng less than even seyen paper machines In thirteen en tar it has haa add added d only two now new ma- ma f to Its equipment In thirteen years lit has nU added only onh two new machines to iti Hi equipment nt When It was organized lulf It of tho the machines were cro then out of date Ite What must bo ho their condition toI to to- I Its paper machines turn tum out anI an I aVe average le of or one twenty tons per machiner machine Mr ir r day while modern machines turn out x tons per da day Wh Why should the n pers b be forced to carry tho the burden o that load loada a Lumber Speculation r Instead of or using its resources to deop de- de op ip its machinery and improve its Plant ant t. t the International Paper company Sti u used ulea cd Its funds to speculate in wood n 1 eo so that today it controls between and square miles of ot timber tra tract s. s and is flirting with the provincial of or Quebec about the thc location set Pier plants Pants in that section It has hns th Ir three NJ t times mes the wo wood land necessary for tor Fit pits a supply of oft wood to provide pro provident bt Present nt production Its representative hit ht th a cong congressional committee fI figured lad nd these L lands were Worth 13 O O that the e company had made 10 OO land the appreciated Value of ot ll Its wo wood d hOldings o Eti 1 o as Strengthen W weli 0 Its ava available monopoly ab timber of power It hO bold 8 areas hOn horsepower of 9 eater o. o ty r POW Power r which Is ls valued aluM at 99 9 1 t and and Will not rot develop P these itself no ot cf t possIble 8 can get hold tariff tec t his former assertions that Coddling ng had enervated American nto Per makers until now ow they converted only 7 per Pcr nor c cent nt of the Put MS the tho f m mill 17 Mr Air Norris said I h e American n paper makers In nt l y YO o to et th their lr Pulp pulpwood wood rp dlly bich them upon conditions ket bt ena enable e them to capture the tho ream f th the world and to realize that Li WhIch Ch n th the organizers of tho the Inter- Inter taper Paper 8 Cr company avowed their t to J accomplish |