Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-20
6oTH CONGRESS.
Wood Pn|p and Print Pa
per Hearing Is Still On.
No Currency Legislation Is Ex-
pected at This Session.
House Passes Appropriation Bill
For Toxic Exposition.

washington May lie taking OF
evidence was not concluded today by
the wood pulp and print paper inves-
tigating committee of the House, as
had been expected, and it will be re-
sumed tomorrow. A number Of indie
pendent manufacturers testified today
and great deal of statistical evidence
was placed in the record, preparatory
to its consideration by the committee.
, Referring to the telegram from Mr..
Norris given out yesterday by the
committee, George C. ShermanA treas
urer OF the st. Regis Paper Co., has
requested that newspapers which
printed that telegram will state that
when he was before the committee last
Friday and before he had received
any promise Of immunity he declared
his connection with the Parks Manila
and Fibre pool and acknowledged his
responsibility in that connection,
which is a fact. He said that he had
been advised by eminent counsel that
the pool was legal.
Washington, May 19-The wood pulp
and print paper investigating commit
tee of the House was furnished a mass
of statistical information today by the
census bureau. On May letters were
sent by the committee to $685. publ
cations having a circulation of 1900 or
more. Up to last Saturday night 1871
answers had been received and these
were turned over to the census bureau
for compilation. OF that number SS7
were sufficiently complete to enable
the bureau to tabulate the informa-
ton; 3G4 were 50 defective they could
not be used in the table or contained
no information except the answer to
the inquiry as to whether the tariff
on wood pulp should or should not be
removed.
Taking New York as an example the
tables show that on Jan. 1. 1907, 106 papers
reported that the average price was $2.45
per hundred. On Jan. l. 1865, 50 reported
the average as SEAL. On Jan. I, 1900, Sc
papers reported it to be $2.35; Jan. l. 1887,
50 reported an average of s2.19; Jan. /,
1894, 81 papers reported $3.50. and on Jan
1, 1890. 26 papers reported 1924.
Regarding the removal of the tariff, 6
papers said it should be removed. L.
thought it should not be. IA did not an
swer and "a were non-committal.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the forestry
service, told the committee that at the
present rate of cutting the spruce supply
would be exhausted in New Hampshire in
Is years, in Vermont i'll II years, New
York in SA years, Minnesota years, and
Maine 2SHl years. There were other
however. available for paper making and
he gave the committee a list Of them.
He thought that spruce lands could be
cut over again in 30 years, but this has
been done within Is years. J. T. Cary of
WATERFOWL, N. ", president Of the In
ternational Association of Pulp Sulphite
and Paper Mill Workers, testified in re-
gard to the rate Of wages paid in Ameri-
can and Canadian mills, saying the I'M
skilled labor wage scale in America was
higher than in Canada, though the Ca
madam scale for skilled labor was prac-
tically the same as in the United States
He believed that if the tariff was re-
moved it would have an injurious effect
James r. Fitzgerald. labor leader,
said that the organized paper and pulp
workers were opposed to the repeal of
the duty on wood pulp and paper.
Herbert j. Brown, treasurer of the Ber-
lin Mills Paper Co., Berlin. N. H., testi-
fed that his company had made contracts
this year for $3.50 per hundred pounds
and in two instances for less amounts
His company was in no agreement or
combination. nor did it have any under
standing with anyone else as to the
amount Of the output at the price for pa
per sulphite or pulp. He said the in
crease in the price Of paper by his COM
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