Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-16

MIR. Brooks, the only champion the neWspa-
per publishers have sent here, and it has
come out during the argument that Frye
himself is counsel for the Dennisons, a large
wood-pulp manufacturing firm in Maine.
Messrs. Wood, Gibson and Tucker have tax
en- neutral stand, at least SO far as one can
gain from what they have said, while Messrs.
Carlisle and Morrison have remained in the
background, asking but few questions.
Mills, of Texas, an out -and-out free trader,
became so disguised this morning when
new pulp man from Cincinnati was intro
duced at the beginning of the fourth hour
that he demanded from the chairman some
information as to
WHEN THE HHARINa WOULD END,
and, failing to elicit a satisfactory response,
he sprang to his feet and said: eff the COM
mittee of ways and means intends to stay
here any longer, spending its valuable time
In considering the matter of a revenue 80
trifling that man can put it in his pants
pocket, I shall Co." At the door Mr.. Mills
turned, and, facing the committee, said:
eve have been hearing these men two hours
yesterday and nearly three hours to-day, but
the committee has heard nothing in favor of
the people of the United States, who have
sent hundreds and thousands of petit
here, praying for reduction of this un-
necessary tax"
In the course of his remarks, while pay
ing his respects to the Chicago Tribune.
Mr.. Russell said that paper, while clamoring
for reduction in the price of paper, had
never thought to reduce Its own price. On
the contrary, it had recently advanced
its price, and afterwards was obliged
to reduce to the old figure. After
he sat down Mr.. Russell was reminded that
this statement was untrue; that the Chicago
Tribune had made no such advance, and
that he must have had III mind another Chi
cago newspaper. He promised to make
correction of his statement, but neglected to
do SO. He made the further statement that
none Of the leading newspapers of the coun
try had ever reduced their prices, although
material had gone down very much since
war times. He was promptly met,
however, by the publisher of the
New York World, who called his attention
to the fact that two or three years ago near
~ all of the New York newspapers, including
the Herald, Times, World, Post, cypress,
and others, had reduced their price from
four to three cents, and one of these even to
two cents. Brooks, of the New York Er-
press, spoke in sarcastic terms of the two
congressman who so far forgot the dignity
of their position as to come before the COM
mittee az lobbyists in their own personal in
terests He insisted that the plain inten-
ton of the law of 1871 was to place wood
pulp
ON THE FREE LIST,
and again quoted Boutwell's letter of March
8, 1873, to the collector of the port of New
York, giving to the law the construction un-
der which wood-pulp has ever since borne a
duty of 20 per cent. He also gave the
amount of revenue collected from
this source for several years, to
show that the duty is not for revenue, but
for protection only. In 1873 the amount of
this revenue was 1914; in 1874, nothing; in
1875, nothing; in 1876, 1886; in 1877, 1924;
in 1878, $128. This exhibit shows more
clearly thap any arguments can that the duty
goes into the pockets of Messrs. Russell,
Miller, ct al. MIR. Brooks refuted the argu-
ment that paper in advancing from six to
nine cents per pound is simply partaking of
the impetus given by the business boom by
showing that, with the exceptions only of
iron and brick, largely used in building pur-
poses, no other articles had advanced in any
thing like the same degree. IN coffee, since
October last, there has been no advance; in
sugar, 20 per cent; wheat, so per cent; cot
ton prints, from 8 to IL per cent; printing
paper, so to 80 per cent.