The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-21
ONE OLE The sNAGs.

The conferees on the tariff bill have
struck several snags while endeavoring
TO Tx up a measure that will pass mus
ter at the White house and not bring
down too much adverse criticism upon
the heads of the Republican leaders.
One of the snags is the wood pulp and
print paper schedule, The Republican
newspaper publishers, as well as those
of Democratic proclivities. have felt the
pinch of the trust many a time and oft
during the last few years and are unan-
/ imous in their demand for relief from
oppression. At the last session of con-
gress an attempt was made to grant
such relief, but Speaker Cannon rushed
into the breach and appointed a special
committee to investigate the whole
question, and no action was taken at
that time. The special committee report
ed to congress that the complaints Of the
publishers were well founded, and the
Payne bill reduced the impost on print
paper to 81 per ton.
When the bill came back from the
senate the chairman of this special
committee, Mr.. Mann of Illinois, made
the following observations and threat:
Mr. Speaker, it seems to me the only
thing We can do is to adopt the rcsOlu-
ton and send the bill to conference. 1t
is out of the question to believe that We
viii remain here and give calm and cool
discussion to the senate amendments. But
in saying this I desire to add word in
reference to certain amendments of the
senate. Without any desire on my part,
was placed in position where, with
other members of the house, we were
compelled to make an investigation I'm
reference TO certain items contained in
the tariff which at least took more time
than the investigation upon all the other
items combined. The committee that in
vestigated the subject of wood pulp and
print paper VIII properly not be represent
ed upon the conference committee.
The house passed a bill which upon these
items would reduce the tariff on print
paper, TO the benefit of the consumer
probably, and at the same time would give
10 the manufacturer of print paper that
free raw material from Canada which Is
absolutely essential to the continued pros
perity of that business. The house bill
made the tariff g per ton on print paper
instead Of Sc; but by so doing we would
secure pulp wood from Canada without
restriction of expectation. The senate
amendment. on the contrary, will raise
the tariff on print paper from IS. the
present rate, to S., and in effect will stop
the expectation of pulp wood from Can
ada. ] have stated what viii be the eff
feet of the two propositions, not merely
what they nOminally propose. There are
two states in the Union which would be
benefited by the adoption of the prOpo-
sition of the senate; two states which have
two-thirds of the spruce wood i'm the Unit
ed States. which can be used in the manu-
facture of news print paper. I give no
tice now that if those two states write
the provision in the conference report on
news print paper and on wood pulp, i'm
the interest of their states and against
the interest of the consumer of paper and
the manufacture of paper in the rest of
the Union. so far as I am concerned
shall swallow my desire to stand with the
organization of the house, my desire 20
prove that the Republicans are able to
write a tariff BILL and vote against the
conference report.
Mr. Mann is not alone in his opposi-
ton TO the senate proposition, and it
is reasonably sure that Mr., Hale of
Maine is not going to write the wood
pulp and print paper schedule into the
bill and make it stick