| Show WOOD Ob PULP PRINT PAPER rAPER AND TARifF Special Committee of House Ip Ap Appointed pointed to Investigate Ques Queston lion Submits Two Reports ton MAJORITY WANT MORE TIME Passage of Stevens Bi Bill in Pres Present Present ent Form Might Spell Ruin For Paper Industry the thc Ic lii ls lis Its Ia Li I I fl MI May I ot of six member of the Iho house upon complaint or of orthe the file Newspaper to the II and print paper In rt re laton to the th tariff and with rc nr to an ale alleged el conspiracy In cr f trade today n a I nd n fl minority report The Tho report which 11 sl n nn rd n Iw b Mann of 11 Ill nol nn Mier Miller of Kansa Stafford of arid and Bannon of oC Ohio hio Is I 1 a preliminary report antI ahll tit no le affecting woot wood pUlp ind nd print paper be until the committee further reported The Tho which II Is Filmed b by Sims ot of Tennessee and R an of Now New York recommends ot of the bi bill to place wood pulp and print pa er on the tre free list MAJORITY REPORT The majority report Is i summed up In the following words Al As tho present price of paper not to nn any considerable IC de I greo he bo Immediately affected by the tho repeal or of tle tho tariff and ns as the pas passage sage or the tho Stevens bi bIl In Is Its present form mIght spell ruin to tho paper and ruinously hIgh prices for forI I paper per In the near future YO your con com believes it the part of oC wisdom making recommendations for to awai await until Is its has been completed and andT T thoroughly thorough digested Tho committee wih with In Interest terest attention and care from Apri April 25 to te May Ia H 14 sa the tho report to 0 the th appearing izi In behalf or of ortle tle the contentions of oC the tho American merican r and ton ed with 1110 cure the Iho made and evidence pre pie ly by John Norris ls who hil appeared as the sp or of that Ever Every u ni his has been given to the Ien newspaper HI to Present evidence bore the though not al all publishers who offered to appear or whom the corn com would to hear have havo yet ct been examined 1 The report says a that the of returned or of b bli by li cenus census but fel few of the tho metropolitan which are arc the hUt consumers Froin these reI urn the Iho a y erue price lt at present including in 10 cn 1 freight ht chars charges to 10 I is pt per hUldred hundred tha that ef Df usIng In iii mils hate tn nn average price of at 25 and have hae In an of at for tor II In choel I I It seems probable that publish publishers Irs ers high prices most readily l ye to the InquirIes of the tho corn com The he report Continues there a PlIc Il to have been beCO int on tho th part o of Ihl the paper rl thaL the selling price ur of paper for fOl 1906 WUI was to low to bo be fairly yet We vo are arc inclined to think I it was as not until the summer or of 1907 that there sas a general In Crae In print paper prices That Thul 1 a increase wa II in tact put into Inlo contracts appears to 10 ho unquestioned As to the charge o of tl tiu of ofa n a In restraint ot of mile the report IlYS says The Tho evidence before the Iho FO fa far I tolls to prove an any of print paper pape to 10 nd ad ln aci primes O or otherwise In restraint of it trade but was Presented which exell excite suspicion tIia uch R a ha hind been nade modo non al 11 In existence nf IVAL OF OF U lATIF tn L III the subhead IC of the Iho Tariff the report In t says RI The Tho question ni ns to 10 tl tue rc J 0 1 I of tile the on pAper all Viol I Is the Inn con of the firest eS It C th ti States af as wel eti 11 85 Is its fe 1 upon th the pe II lie tho I og 11 i I I leo i not nol ye t to lalo llon 55 to 10 thin permAnent of the United In to the duty lut on paper Ind except that Ihl I lie i I tee II Is I ti Im y or of Iho ho I ha t Iho ho t a ml ft 01 I n 1111 print p I r alil a nil Oi Cli Wood not ho be s to papel 01 coming ul I try am 01 Place wIt ich H he if pulp wood nt 01 which o 1111 2 v es any export ty on PU I or wood or 01 un ILI higher 1 II an way upon WOle wood 1111 Pulp ur or p I n for ax po nation to 10 11 LI I Il so o fat ai would 1 tl ti I to 1 ha t Ih I h I nun iuru u 11 UI entire of C Iho ont tariff would lot ha 11 greet effeCt fud I it the tariff Is hi rut nt sin line It 1 lie vi I Ii lie tho I t oC it tree 10 o Jutt ta tau J u on ot of wood flu I P Iho he t n muni iso frest Ihl I of I the ho tariff r 01 oil Print a nil PUlP If I t toi j hr by 11 en dily ii uty oi on l 00 Im 1 hiI g tiani Ca lie ii ii would I 10 me I oh 1 t II I m 1 a lon co Pie I fleta so III i mu 11 I Ii a aPrice Price or of 1111 the o of t the II wood II lii time tho f 01 ANAr AADA ANArI I 1 t 01 hi scott el lint fOI am ii II tu II lie a I t lo i iiiI n to til I It II Is 1111 i mills II I U tho he I I iii I eul tc A IY 1 loll 1 t iii t 0 I I give he t eQI q In U UIn In I us it II IS i a Ill II I ii go ler over limo Iho maS mia 11 Iii 11 lOll t nit I nt itt 1 it aCm rul rk Iii lii list 1101 I It oM resul t In I ii I Ia ml lit Ii n g ot 01 Amol A llon iL 0 Ii I uI Iho t iii uI I m If ut U I shots holl In on ona a nd sa ii mi iii Ills it in iii levy dillies 01 Print 1111 lie list I lou I I II iii Irl I I I he n II iii 5 If of I I I t ton loin A 0 1 It pa imet tim C committee rl Ih limo I vacation to 10 11 Its ld Ia 10 be 0 a ubie II to IIO e I 1 to Iho hou e H lon oC mit Con upon complete 10 1 II I In ton I d I Time semi or iii pa IIII con Upon th ho bl If of tw the country it less I ril for lullI wood and 1 he be 10 Prices a con return to In I I PO Flip he report endorses th thou I hil iii I i In I n I ts t I ls lends III its ns Discussing the II is SUCa thi Ih the Iho pa per r the tho states 11 pOll that nn an which might bc l termed trade hysteria IS ms ed cd In iii iti news print II nOIH I I pc when I n group or of 16 10 known void Ills ns as the con ln pulp association bought roo colds of t Pulp In the lie Province of Quebec Canada which entailed 1 a or of Irni 1 a dil dis In once leo of 1500 mie allIes It introduced I a new for factor Into Inlo what Wil was mor more 11 in of at n a speculative oll alon says the report WOOD PU PULL J AmI TS DE I it demoralized th ha wood pulp of oC the tho United as aR 11 of Canada nearly cords of oC puti wo wood Ile tue bought fO foi export to the United Sla States Ic IcI I It started I per quotations upward until paper trade journal report reported Id ed that tIme tho current prices for leW print apor on JulY 1 90 rn e efrom from to per ton Ion This nil Vance hA hind I been foretold h by paper Imper salesmen others nearly 1 a year jiri 01 or to I a paper famine WOOD FROM CANADA The report points out the tho roc tact that 1011 niome than one half of at tho the produce wondus wood us used d In iii American mills for making news print paper comes collies frol from and States that at tim tho tulle Ih the Vi purchase or of Quebec wood caus ed Cd time the trade hurry the of at the company n a corporation Producing about oC o tl supply ot of newl news prin print paper rel II in he I United States com computed that lint the tho United cost or of their h lV reason or of shorter hours hour hal had per annUl or 60 6 cents per ton to their and that wood cost additional or 2 0 up on each ton or of paper IL total of at l 1 pr per tal oh their entro entire output ot of for Manila Ild and Other oiher of oC paper They also that of their print output oll only 55 5 per cent could ho he wih with these burdens the Iho other 45 43 11 cent of their print pro iro been con ted tied up III lea prIced coverIng covering the tho year eur ftc Ac AcI I cordingly decided upon 50 PI per I OE a their upon al eli future sales which substantially fixed that price for the Iho entre entire market This carried It nn an of 10 pr per ton Ina in a period of two year cn The acton action w too to abrupt I It pro yoked trouble Ind l nt at 1 a lime when whon now newspaper revenues were shrink In ing because o of business Con I It to the ot of the Country countr a situation that thaI demands following the panic It of October 1301 It Is Ila stated d publishers fought to Offset their lo c caused by diminished a t revenues and hy by co t tuC ut uC paper b by reducing tIme the of pages or o G resulting Ino in ln diminution of at ton In Iii conSequence 1 mills which had Juen tl d io supply the market soon oon found their stocks hating wih with a a de for product Tho t WiS viLs glutted Confronted wih with the tho te live or of reducing helm prices om 01 closing theIr mis mills nail and thel labor the Iho paper manufacturers It Is stated staled hoso t to maintain the tho high 11 h prices The They their prices eo me far above the levei leel sats fiats lie tho report that mills welo ere Ible able to pay time the duty ditty ot of 6 i I a ton and undersell Amell Amen In t he inn do In log this hlo payIng wl wages es tom fOI labor that compared favorably wih ith th thio wages paul h by the tho American mis mills The Thc m o of high prices under such conditions It Is stated blon brought ht about time for result ot oC giving to Canadian ibor some somo of oC that wor work which otherwise would hn gone to 10 American labor Many cn cases s of hardship among putu Ushers In con or of tile tho tou of at n a Increase In price are cited It Is l Pointed out P porn welo were forced arced to the alternative or of contracting It at higher price or I ii of |
