The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-04-11

dSem0nC OF business OF Lno lnCornd-
tional Paper Company of New York
and other corporations, joint stock
companies or combinations engaged
in the manufacture of wood pulp or
print paper or. the sale thereof, as
said bureau of corporations is author
lied to do by law"
Explains Object of Resolutions.
In reply to a question as to the pur-
pose of the resolutions Speaker Can
non said:
/. "The duty on print paper is Is per
cent ad valorem and has been the
same since 1890 under the Mckinley
law, the Wilson law and the Dingley
law, covering a period of eighteen
years. 1t is claimed that the price
has been advanced within the last few
months, largely more than equal to the
duty.
"The publishers of the United States,
represented by Herman Ridder, claim
that the manufacturers of wool pulp
and print paper have by agreement
and combination, even covering ar
rangements with Canadian manufac-
turers, arbitrarily limited the produc-
ton and advanced the price of print
paper. If the claim of the publishers
is correct the manufacturers of print
paper are subject to penalty and the
trust can be dissolved and enjoined by
proceedings in equity in any of the
United States courts, where they are
or any of them can be found, and if
the claim of the publishers is correct
the advance in the price is not due to
the duty, but results from the illegal
trust and combination. If the duty
we're repealed it would not interfere
with the illegal trust agreement.
The object of the two resolutions
is to ascertain, first, what investiga-
ton the department of commerce and
labor, through the bureau of corpora
tons, has made, If any, touching on
the premises; second, to ascertain
what steps have been taken by the de-
partment of Justice, If any, to investi-
gate touching the premises, and If
there is reason to believe that the law
has been violated or is being violated,
what steps are being taken to enforce
the same"
Committee Denounced.
Later in the day Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri denounced
Speaker Cannon and the twelve re-
publican members Of the committee
on ways and means for persisting in
their refusal to bring in bill placing
wood pulp and white print paper on
the free list. He said that the repub-
lican editors and publishers IF they
were worth the powder and shot to
kill them" would lash the speaker,
chairman and the other republicans
of the committee.
On a point of order by Mr.. Little
field of Maine there was stricken from
the agricultural appropriation bill a
paragraph authorizing an inquiry into
the subject of the best methods for
making paper.
Mr.. Littlefield's action was de-
nounced by Mr.. Hitchcock of Nebras-
ka, who declared the refusal to au-
thorize that inquiry was not only a
notification to the newspaper publish
ers that the republicans did not pro-
pose to revise the tariff and compel
the paper trust" to reduce its price,
but also that they. stood against any
effort to discover II any methods or
processes Of making paper could be
found.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Mann
NJ TI1inoia woc odn1rfnd a,,flrrsx9rer . -
appropriation of $4,000 to enable the
secretary Of agriculture to test by Gull
tivation such plants as may require
tests to ascertain II they be suitable
for making paper.