The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-22
PUBLISHERS
GROAN UNDER
THE BURDEN
congress Asked to Grant Re-
lief Against Ubiquitous
Paper Trust.
CANNON RESOLUTION
PASSED IN THE HOUSE
PROTEST OF PRESS UNHEEDED
AND TRIBUTE WILL STILL
BE LEVIED.


{. lowing address was adopted at the ::
6 annual meeting of the Associated :
{. Press today ::
:: Representative of ga daily ::
{. newspapers gathered at the an !:
9 nual meeting of the Associated ::
{. Press respectfully ask the presi- ::
- dent and congress TO grant imme- ::
{. date relief from the exactions of ::
- combinations of papermakers. In ::
= September, 1907, and again in No ::
- Vember, 1907. the attention of the ::
& authorities was directed to the ex- ::
- cessive prices then demanded by I:
- the paper combination. Immedi- !:
:. ately upon the assembling of con- !:
:. gress, twenty or more bills, aim !:
:. ing to correct these conditions and ::
:. to put paper and pulp on the free ::
Z. list were introduced and referred ::
- 10 the ways and means commit ::
:. tee. Persistent efforts to obtain a ::
- hearing have been refused. Dila- ::
- tory tactics have been employed ::
- TO prolong present conditions and ::
=. TO carry over to another session of :.
- congress every proposition de- ::
= signed for relief All newspapers ::
= here represented protest against ::
- delay. ::
:. Attention is also directed TO the ::
:. false reports of news print paper ::
g prices which were recently fur :.
r. nished 10 congress by the director ::
:. of the census bureau. The news ::
- papers here represented use ap- ::
:. proximately so 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 Z:
: called To public attention tends TO !:
:. shake public confidence and re- !
:: spect for statistics thus compiled" :.
Washington, April 21.-rhe house
adopted today Speaker Cannon's reso-
lstion authorizing the appointment OF
a committee TO investigate the So
called paper trust and the general SUBJ
Ject Of wood pulp and the manufacture
OF printing paper.
The vote on the resolution stood 49,
1l0. and was strictly on party lines
The speaker announced the follow
make the proposed investigation:
Mann of Illinois, Miller of Kansas
Stafford of Wisconsin, Bannon of Ohio
Sims of Tennessee and Ryan OF New
York
The resolution provides for 2 select
committee of six, and was passed un-
der suspension of the rules.
DalzelPs Explanation"
In explanation of the resolution Mr.
Dalzen of Pennsylvania said it was g
matter of public notoriety that there
had been a large increase in the price
Of paper. Never, he declared. had there
been such an agitation as had beer
aroused by the newspapers the last few
weeks. While there was a consensus
of opinion, he said, as to the increase
there was no consensus as TO the Gauss
Of that increase. 1t was. he said, ca BILE
hOf mathematical demonstration that
1.-THE Increase was not due to the tariff
and he contended that it would not be
changed by the removal of the tariff
However that may be, he said, there
were those who believed that the in
crease Was due to a combination OF
trust, and It was necessary to get the
facts upon which to base bill TO meet
the case.
Due 10 Tariff and Combination.
In the opinion of Mr.. Williams, the
rise in price was due both TO the tar
IN and the combination, and the com
bination is due to the tariff"
II, he said, it had beer intended tC
kill the combination IT could have beer
done by putting wood pulp and print
paper on the free list.
Mr.. DeArmond (Mo.) declared tina
the resolution was but another attemp
of the Republicans to delude the PEG
pie. and make them believe there is al
attempt to do something when the di
rect attempt is to do nothing.
Declaring his opposition TO the reso
luton, Mr. Williams, who obtained tn,
floor again, said he did not think Their,
would be any real search for the trutf
and no real finding or reporting of III,
Continued on Page 2.