Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22
'v|CT0RS AT BANQUET PAPER ON FREE LIST
League of Republican State Mr. Norris Plea Before House
Clubs Celebrates. Tariff Committee.
BOWL FOR HENRY H. CAMP ACCUSES PAPER MAKERS
Farewell Tribute Paid Declares They Have Combined
Milo Shanks. Restraint of Trade.
COMPLIMENTARY THINGS SAID BURDEN ON NEWSPAPERS
by Of
Appreciation of Services, at Prolonged
sened o President Hearing
ACCUSES PAPER MAKERS
Declares They Have Combined in
Restraint of Trade.
BURDEN ON THE NEWSPAPERS
Trust Represented by Of
fetal at Prolonged Commit
tee Hearing.

Newspaper publishers and paper manu-
| facturers locked horns late yesterday
afternoon and continued in combat until
II o'clock last night before the House
ways and means committee over the
question of whether or not the tariff on
paper and wood pulp should be removed
or reduced. So much had both sides to
say that the committee found it abso-
;utely necessary to sit half way through
the night TO complete this subject
Efforts were made by the democratic
members of the committee to uncover
some big paper trust" but at every
point they were met with apparent lack
of knowledge or absolute dentals on the
part of the paper manufacturers.
On the other hand it was charged by
John Norris. chairman of the committee
on paper of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. that in 1906 the
papernakers deceived the ways and means
committee to the actual conditions sur
rounding their business that they have
since combined in restraint of trade; that
they have failed to give labor any benefit
OF the tariff profits; that they are destroy
ing the forests wantonly and are Specu-
| lating gigantic scale in the purchase
| of woodland.
The only way to remedy this condition
Of affairs. according to Mr. Norris. is to
put paper ana WOOD pup OH the Tree list
Charge Causes Sensation.
| Mr.. Norris caused a sensation as soon
as he took the stand. which was about
80 m, by charging that a papermaker
who had preceded him was one of the
members of fiber and manila paper pool
that was fined in June. 1908. and ordered
to break up by the courts. This man was
| Milton f. Marcuese of the Bedford Pulp
-l,f
asked for certain increases on paper.
And they are at it again.. declared
Mr.. Norris, referring to the pool in vio-
lation of law
| One interesting fact that was brought
out by the questions fired at witnesses
| on both sides by democratic and repub-.
lican members of the committee was that
users and makers of paper are agreed
| that removal of the tariff would not re-
| duce the price of a newspaper to the in
| dividual. Representative Champ Clark
of Missouri calls him, Mr. Ultimate
| Consumer" In the words of Representa-
| tive Boutell of Illinois this unfortunate
| individual is between the upper and the
neither milestone in the whole tariff mat
! ter.
| Mr. Norris brief was SO long that it
took nearly three hours 10 read it. When
| he had finished he braced himself against
| the reading desk, as if to be ready to
answer the string of questions that he
/ apparently thought would be LAUNCHED
| at him.
Nobody Asked Questions.
Are there any questions? asked Chair
man Serene Payne.
| Silence.
Then that is ALL said the chairman.
and Mr. Norris. much surprised and evil
IDENTIFY disappointed, resumed his place in
the audience.
Mr. Norris started out by telling a few
| of the hardshipS the newspapers are made
to suffer by the papermakers.
Paper Company's Side.
! The International Paper Company.
which is being currently referred TO as
1.-The paper trust was represented be-
fore. the committee last night by Chester
w. Lyman. one of its officials, who said
il operated eighteen paper and eight sepa-
rate pulp mills. employed over LOCO men
in this country and Canada. owns or con-
| trolls about 100000 acres of timber lands
! in this country and 3.1GO.OOo acres in
Canada. has employed capital amounting
to So, 100000 preferred stock, SIT, il2.OOo
common stock and $11,oGO.OUO bonds. held
by about $3.50 persons. and I'm the ten
years of its existence its gross business
amounted to $200,OO0C00. while it paid out
in dividends only S13,951. 900 and Increased
its Indebtedness by $6,OOO.O0o.
If the tariff should be removed. this
I have to go out of business. according to
/ Mr.. Lyman. ON account of the compe-
I tition from Canada and other countries.
i This was the theme of his plea
| "If any discrimination is to be made
/ between large industrial corporations
/ which conduct their business in a legiti-
mate manner and those which do not,
| the Internal iOnal Paper Company claims
| that it is entitled to commendation rather
than condemnation. and in the formula
1 ton of the governments tariff policy
| that it should receive on its own account
| fair and reasonable protection. and that
no policy should be adopted which would
injure il or the industry OF which it is
| but a small part
Newspapers have been made to bear
undue burdens result of the advance
in 1897 Of $12 per ton in the price of
paper" said he approximately 1.2DO,oo0
tons of news print paper are used in the
| United States annually, costing consumers
| in excess o: $5u,00o.G0o per annum. As
a result of the unjustitiable advance of
| 1907. one paper, the Baltimore American.
was taxed $4,000 per annum Another
pape-, the Philadelphia Inquirer. was
| taxed $4,000 PER annum. Preliminarily
| call attention TO the fact that because
| of a abOr dispute between the lnterna-
tional Paper Company and its employees.
| covering Il period of three months, since
August 1. 1893 the output of the market
was reduced about 10000 tons.
This curtailment of production has
ally to mark up the price of news print
paper this week to 500 per ton New York,
or $50 per ton in excess OF the price which
prevailed when the ways and means COM
mittee considered this schedule twelve
years ago. and So per ton in excess of
the price which would prevail under
normal conditions.
Publisher Has to Pay.
| Please note that the publisher-not the
aborer nor the paper maker-is ASKED to
pay this bill for industrial warfare. We
will show from its annual reports that
the International Paper Company. with
all of it's ANTICIPATED outfit and its five
subsidiary companies that sap its earn
inSS. has made actual profit of $50
per ton. ~ pc" cent. upon all the pa
per it has turned out in ten years, and
that, it's cost of production has been
5000 per ton. S1.31 per 100 pounds.
and that its average price during the ten
years which have elapsed since the pas
sage of the Dingley bill has been S43 N
per ton. or SID per 100 pounds delv-
cred an increase of $11y per ton over
the price at which paper was sold when
Within seven months after the passage
/ of the so-called Dingley bill the Interua-
tional Paper Company formed from
a consolidation of about thirty paper
mills. and Immediately steps were taken
| to mark up prices. We call your atten-
ton to this matter to show you that at