The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-29

Y Hearst were for paper delivered at the newspaper offices s
 Mann. you think MT. Hearst Is getting about the same price as The New York .rhat is rigiit.s said Mir. Norris; .our contract having been signed three years ago" ls., -'-7
 At this point the bells rang, :indicat- ing that there was no quorum in the House.
 ~ssThat. means.- MT. Mann remarked, that your seff-appointed prophet in the House and spiritual ally twiii- iams) has demanded that we stop here" he added with some degree Of sarcasm. "and in doing so Is to help you to hasten this hearing"
 Several times since the hearing be- gan Mir. Mann has made similar re- mark. but MT. Norris did not respond until today.
 If our professed friends in the ma jority." he said. !" were to do what they avow themselves extremely anx- ious to do. this proposition would have been passed about four weeks ago and there would not have been any roll calls on that account"
 "I don't see how you can say you have any professed friends in the ma jority." Mir. Mann retorted. consider ing the abuse you have given the ma jority." M
 Mir. Norris protested that he had given no abue. unless" he said. you Etalk to me as the representative of a number
 .oh. we'll" declared Mir. Mann. dis missing the subject and declaring q recess until 2 o'clock.
 At the opening of the afternoon ses- sion. Chairman Mann read q letter which he had caused to be addressed | to all the members of the House. ask | ing if they have any Constituents who are users or manufacturers Of wood | pulp or print paper and saying that | if they have, the committee would be ! glad to hear them regarding the effect | of the tariR on paper: whether they have any knowledge Of a combination | or a conspiracy to control prices. or any other facts they may have bearing on the case.
 aIr. stone's Letters. | Mir. Mann then read communication from Melville F. Stone. secretary and general manager of the Associated | Press dated April 2i, 1908, transmit
 ting an address adopted at the annual
 meeting of the Associated Press. ask
 ing the president and congress to grant | immediate relief from the actions of 1 combinations of paper makers. An | other communication by Mir. Stone
 was read. in which he stated that he
 transmitted the address in a purely
 ministerial capacity. without assuming
 to know any of the facts. He did not own paper. he said. and. therefore
 had no personal information that l would be of special value to the com | mittee. There also was read by Mir.
 Mann. letter dated April 2b from Francis M Hugo seeretary of the
 Remington Martin Paper Company
 Watertown, N. r., ssaylng that the pa per manufacturers In that distrie,
 we've a1sxfeus to place hefnHa sths com. nasrgess defafIs of the sSaper hnaiHsss I MT Norris then resumed hts testi. many by putting in evidence the state.
 ment of publishers from every part oi
 the country that there was constant Interchange of information of paper
 makers respecting prices and the,
 knew of quotations made by otnel
 agencies or mills. Almost without ex.
 ception the publishers stated that tn,
 paper makers were In. collusion. ane
 that the quotations seemed to be yer,
 uniform.