The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-03


PUBLISHERS LOSE THE
FIGHT AT OUTSET
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MUST
GIVE RELIEF, CONGRESS
WILL NOT ACT.
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y Washington. April 2.-Senator =
= OVerman of North Carolina today I
= introduced a joint resolution putting =
y print paper and wood pulp on the =
= free list and asked for its immediate :
y consideration by the senate, but Mr..
y Hepburn objected, and, on motion
y of Senator Gallinger, the resolution y
\ was referred to the committee on =
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
lWashilg ton, April 2.-In his capacity as
" member of the house, Speaker Cannon
iOday introduced resolution directing the
attorney general TO transmit to the house
the papers bearing on the investigation
into the affairs of the print paper trust"
The resolution is as follows:
Text of the Resolution.
Resolved. That the attorney general be
directed to transmit to the house, If not
Incompatible with the public service, such
papers and information as may be in pos
session of the department showing what
steps. If any, have been taken TO ia
vestigate the action of the International
Paper company of New York and other
corporations. joint stock companies or cor
porate combinations engaged in the manu-
oafu - Eauul
the sale thereof, and what steps nave
been taken TO prosecute the said corpor-
alton or corporations joint stock COM
panies or combinations for violations of
the law, in case reasons for such prose
Cutions may have appeared from inVesJl-
4 cation, information from the department
d OF commerce and labor or otherwise
One for Secretary Strauss.
A resolution giving similar directions to
the secretary of the department of COM
merce and labor also was introduced by
the speaker, as follows:
Resolved. That the department of COM
merce and labor be directed, if not incom-
patible with the public service. To trans
init to the house I'll papers and lnforma-
Eon which may be in the possession of
me department relating 10 any steps
which may have. been taken by the bu-
resu Of corporations to make the dill
gent investigation into the orga nization
conduct and management of the busi-
ness of the International 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 authorized TO do by law
of the United States. and all the papers
and information in his department which
are the result of such investigation, if
any such has been made.
Statement of Cannon.
In reply to a question as to the purpose
OF the resolution, Speaker CannO said:
THE duty print paper is 10 per
cent advalorem and has been the same
since 1899 under the Mckinley law, the
Wilson law and the Dingley law, cover
- a period of eighteen years. 1t is
ekimed 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 wood pulp and print
paper have by agreement and combina-
ton, even covering arrangements with
Canadian manufacturers, arbitrarily linn
tied the production and advanced tie
price of print paper.
Can Ee Dissolved.
If the claim of the publishers is cor
rect, the manufacturers of print paper
are subject TO penalty and the trust can
be dissolved and enjoined by proceedings
i'm equity in any Of the United states
courts where they or any of them can
be found. and if the claim of the pub
fishers is correct, the advance in the
price is not due to the duty. but re-
suits from the Illegal trust and combina-
kion. II the small duty were repealed ii
Would not interfere with the Illegal trust
agreement
.rhe object OF the two resolutions is
10 ascertain:
Object TO the Resolutions.
First, that the investigation the de-
partment of commerce and labor, through
The bureau of corporations has made, if
any. touching on the premises.
Secondly, to ascertain what steps have
been taken by the department of justice,
IL any. to Investigate touching the prem
ises and If there s reason to believe that
the law has been violated or is being
violated, what steps are being taken to
enforce the same"
Denounced by Champ Clark.
Later in the day Representative Champ
Clark tMo.) denounced Speaker Cannon
and the twelve Republican members of the
committee on ways and means for per-
slsting in their refusal TO bring in bill
placing wood pulp and white print paper
0,n the free list. He said that the Re-
Anblican editors and publishers. "if they
here worth the powder and shot TO kill
HEM" would lash the speaker. chairman
and the other Republicans of the COM
mittee. IF they don't do it," he eX-
claimed they ought to hold their peace
and vote for us in November"
littlefield for the Trust.
ON a point of order by Mr. Littlefield
of Maine, there was stricken from the
agricultural appropriation bill today a
paragraph authorizing an inquiry into the
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