The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-21
Representatives of 774 Daily
Papers Submit an Address
To the President and Congress
on the Paper Trust.
LANGUAGE is PLAIN.
Call Attention TO Dilatory Tao.
tics That Are Employed.
And to False Figures Submitted
by Census Bureau.

New York, April 21-The following
address was adopted at the annual
meeting of the Associated Press today:
Representatives of TIA daily news
papers gathered at the annual meeting
of the Associated Press. respectf,,llv
ask the president and the congress to
grant immediate relief from the ac-
tlons of combinations of paper makers.
In september, 1907, and again in No
vember. 1907, the attention of the au-
thorltles was directed to the excessive
prices then demanded by the paper
combination. Immediately upon the
assembling of congress, 20 or more bills.
aiming to correct these conditions and
to put paper and wood pulp on the free
hst were introduced and referred to the
ways and means committee Persist
ent efforts to obtaining a hearing have
been refused. Dilatory tactics have
been employed to prolong present con-
ditions and to carry over to another
session of congress legislation designed
for relief Newspapers here represent
ed protest against delay.
Attention is also directed to the
false figures of news print paper
prices which were recently furnished
sus bureau. The newspapers here rep
resented use approximately eighty per
cent of the news print paper consumed
in the United States. We denounce the
quotations submitted to congress as
misleading and unworthy of credence.
The reiteration of the accuracy Of these
figures of the director after the error
had been called to public attention
tends to shake public confidence and
respect for statistics thus compiled"
Miller on the Committee.
Washington, April 21.-The report
er of the committee in the Cannon
resolution announced the following
as members of the committee to
make the proposed investigation of
the paper trust.
Mann In..) Miller. (Kan..) Stat
ford (Wis.,) Bannon CO., Sims
CTenn..) Ryan IN. Y.)
The report provides for select
committee of six and was passed un-
der suspension of the rules.
In explanation of the resolution
Mr.. DalzeN (Pa.) said it was a mat
ter of public notor1ety that there had
been a large increase in the price OF
paper. Never, he declared had there
been such an agitation as had been
aroused by the newspapers the last
| few weeks.
While there was consensus OF
| opinion he said as to the increase
there was no consensus as to the
| cause of that increase. 1t was. he
said capable of mathematical demon
| stration that the increase was not due
| to the tariff and he contended thai
| it would not be changed by the re-
moval of the tariff. However, thai
may be, he said, there were those who
believed that the increase was due to
| a combination or trust and it was
necessary to get the facts upon which
| to base bill to meet the case.
In the opinion of Mr.. Williams th'
rise in price was due both to th'
| tariff and the combination and th
| combination is due to the tariff"
If he said, it had been intended t.
kill the combination. it could have beel
done by putting wood pulp and prin
| paper on the free list.
Mr.. DeArmond (Mo.) declared tina
! the resolution was but another attemp
| of the Republicans to delude the peo
ple land make them believe there il
| an attempt to do something when tn
direct attempt is to do nothing"