The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-29
NORRIS NvEs MoRE-yIDENcE Investigation of Alleged
 Paper Trust. SAYS COMBINATION EXISTS Lays Many Facts Before Congress-
 Select Committee. Mir. Norris Refutes Contention of Man. ufacturers That Raise h Prices
 Was Due to Higher Freight

Washington, April 28.-Before the select committee of the House, which is Investigating the subject of the tar- if on wood plup. as affecting the price of news print paper and also whether or not there Is combination of paper makers fin restraint of trade, Mir. John Norris, representing the paper commit tee of the American Newspaper Pub fishers Association, today submitted further evidence in support of the as- sociation's charge that such combina- tion exists and that the priceSof paper has been arbitrarily raised.
 He refuted the contention of the manufacturers that this increase or price has been partly due to higher freight rates. and submitted a commu- nication from the Interstate Commerce Commission, showing the freight rates from the principal mills to the larger consuming points. from which it ap- peared that with one or two excep- tions, there had been no increase for several years. and in two instances. the statement showed a reduction in rates. The committee will meet again tomorrow at 10 o'clock at which time Mir. Norris will enter upon the fourth day of his examination.
 Mir. Norris began his recital for the day by submitting further evidence re- garding the shutting down of mills. Particular attention was called by him to the statement of The Hamilton (Ohiol Republican News that 1t was claimed the Niagara Falls mills were closed down because of ~no water" Mir. Norris ridiculed the idea of the claim of no water at Niagara Falls.
 Leaving this phase of the question. MT. Norris quoted a number of pub fishers as having Knowledge that the product of independent mills either had been acquired by large selling agencies, or the sale of their output merged.
 ss Answers Submitted.
 He submitted answeFs tc q pumbsF of questions propounded to newspa- pers showing that agents stated that the wisconsin mills had been sold to output of the Booth mf1I in Canada is controlled by Allen McEnnery & Co.,. Of Chicago; that the Carthage. N Y.. mfTI (West EndO Is controlled by the Central Ohio Paper Company and that the J w. Butler Paper Company has a special mill in New York that the excess of the St. Croix Company is taken by, the International Company; that the International Company is buy ing from the St. Regis; that the treas urer or some other officer of the ln- ternational Company had bought a block of Finch. Pruyn Company stock; that the oswego Falls Pulp and Paper Company. supposed to be independent, attended meetings of the manufacture ers In New York and that the Finch Interest in the Finch-Pruyn Company had been acquired by the International Company.
 Turning his attention to the subject of dates of meetings of paper manu- x1 MF NnT- rfs placed in evidence statements by many newspapers on the subject show ing that such meetings had been held. Among the papers quoted was The ot- tawa (Canada) Citizen, which stated that the Canadian mills "came to some agreement last June" and The Wilkes barre (Pa Leader, which had learned that September 4. last, was fixed on as a date for raising the price. Statements relating to experiences of publishers with Canadian mills. also were put in evidence. Some publish CTS certified that they were receiving Canadian paper at the same prices as from mills in the United States; others smoke of the disinclination of Canadian mills to take orders or enter into con- tracts. preferring to sell in the open market. Another publisher had heard of A Canadian agent in Chicago over ing a better price than American mills hut said that when he was sought it was found he had raised his price and fsft town. In one case, in 19o4-o5. a r,bl,aher bought satisfactory paper in rsnada for less than he could get 1t in the United States.
 Mr Morris told of, several Canadian
 u,iIlH that had closed down as a result
 of nigh financing"
 wood Pulp Forests.
 MT. Norris declared that his asso. citation received on an average or three propositions week. contalnlns onportunftfes for location of news nrint paper mills in Canada, with linn | itltess timber tracts and numerous
 novzer sites. He said that one consular renort showed that in the province oi onebee there were 100000 cords oi wood pulp timber, enough to keep tne | limited states in spruce wood TOT all of it's paper manufacture for over twe | hundred years, if there was not par 1 tfcle of reproduction Tn any o'hel S@n adian forests"
 ATtsr Mfr. Norris had had submitted | tastimony showing that supplies Of pa | nar had been shifted from one mill te l another or from one agency to anotn' Il er ha was subjected to cross hrt
 of questions by the committee oearine
 more particularly on the quantity oi | nanNF COnSuEneoN NsD9 tiAO sstions. Mir. Norris asserted that | those publications took one fourth oi inc entire output of the Internationa
 Paper Company or three hundred ton'
 a day. . u-
 Hearst gets his paper?" Chairman Mann inquired.
 | MT. Norris said he knew only from
 MT stafford asked if there had beer
 any talk about MT. Hearst's contract l Mr Morris said there had been consid
 erabIe. He mentioned prices or $l'S l S1.s4 and Sls6 and said he understood that some comparatively recent set dement's had been made. but wnethe 1t was an entirely new deal or the re
 suit of an old contract providing TO A rs-adiustment at q given time' n could not say. He was not, he salo informed as to the length of the con
 tract period. .....
 MT. Norris volunteered the state ment that The New York Journal va
 not in sympathy with the present Tn
 Answering further questions. MI Norris said that Tumored prices to Ml