Evening star., 1909-06-17

and placed in a new one at rate or ID
cents pound and p per cent ad valorem,
as against cents pound and % per
cent ad valorem. 1t was explained ,hat
the German manufacturers were driving
the American post card people out OF
business.
Senator Bristow OF Kansas held up the
committees new proposal regarding VIII
ing papers of various kinds on the ground
that in his opinion 1t would operate as an
increase over the Dinsley rate on COM
mon typewriter paper. This contention
was denied by Mr.. Smoot.
An amendment by Mr.. Bristew reduc-
ing the rate on typewriter paper of this
character from the committees proposal
OF cents a pound and ID per cent ad
vaiorem TO cents pound and the same
ad valorem. was lost. q to 30. The fol-
lowing republicans voted with Mr.. Br1s-
tow: Beveridge Brown. Burkett, Burton,
Curtis. Cummins. Crawford Nelson,
Clapp and La Toilette.
Glass Schedule Passed.
This over, the paper schedule was tenn
porarily laid aside and the glass schedule
resumed The committees amendment
reducing the average rates on common
window glass Immediately met opposition
from Senator Scott of West Virginia.
Dick of Ohio and Oliver of Pennsylvania.
who held that IT was too low and would
tend to drive the glass manufacturers OF
the country out of business. They were
already in precarious condition, these
senator's asserted.
Senator McCumber defended these rates
on behalf of the committee. asserting
that the reason the glass men were in
trouble was not traceable to the tariff,
but due to the cut-throat policy they
were maintaining toward each other. Mr..
Cummins advocated the lower duties on
the ground that there are now no i'm
portations of this kind of glass.
Where does the senator get that in
formation?" asked Mr.. Oliver of Mr..
Cummins. Il have not been able to find
that there has been no Importation of the
glass he refers to-
Probably the senator from Pennsyl-
vania has not gone to the right source"
suggested Mr.. Cummins.
Probably the senator from Iowa has
not gone to the right source, emphatic
ally retorted the Pennsylvania.
Perhaps the senator from Pennsyl-
vania hasn't inquired about 1t at all,
came back Mr.. Cummins, and the matter
was dropped.
Brown Rakes Paper Trust.
Denouncing as inexcusable and inde-
fensible any proposition of the finance
committee to increase the low rate fixed
by the House bill for the protection of the
print paper industry, Senator Brown de-
clared that that industry needs no pro-
lection.
These paper mills. he insisted, have an
advantage over every foreign print mill,
whether II is in Scandinavia, Germany
or Canada.
Canada is our only competitor in this
market" said Mr.. Brown. The seas
and the inferior product of other coun-
tries than Canada protect the mills OF
the United States against all competition
worth mentioning.
This question depends on the cost Of
Of nh fnr
eigners can manufacture print paper for
less than it costs Americans that amend
ment of the finance committee might find
justification. II the fact be, as l shall
prove 1t, that print paper can be made
and is being made at less cost here
than elsewhere, then any duty in any
amount is wholly wrong in principle and
utterly unendurable and extortionate In
practice.
Canada had an investigation into the
subject in 1901. The testimony in that in
vestigation showed that the American
mills rad an advantage of SIS per ton in
the cost of production of print paper.
Following that report the manufacturers
Of Canada petitioned their government to
continue the 25 per cent ad valorem duty
on papeID importations.
"Our consul in the province of Quebec
reported that the laborerS in the Cana
dian mills receive as high, If not higher,
wages than those in American mills. 1t
this committee that many OF the work
men in the Canadian. mills are American
citizens and receive higher wages than
when in the United States. :
Thousands Injured by Extortion.
I'm 80 news print paper mills In this
country" he said, there are Is, 40 en-
pioyes. while the newspapers and periods
calls using their output employ 145.6Ss
persons. Every one of these newspaper
employees has been affected by the in
crease in the rate Of paper which has
taken place in the last few years.
The print paper mills in 1908 had an
pay roll of the newspapers and periodicals
in 1905 was SLOT, 6,949,l99.
THE testimony before the House com
mittee." said Mr.. Brown, shows that
the International Paper Company itself
went into Canada and purchased a large
amount of print paper to keep the Ameri-
can publishers from buying it in. This
they pareeled out among their foreign
customers.
Because of this purchase of foreign
paper the trust had too great a supply
on hand and was compelled to shut down
twenty-four paper machines while the
surplus was being consumed in American
presses. And the. projected laborers on
the twenty-four machines We're compelled
TO find other jobs"
Ep1tome or Argument.
Senator Brown drew the following con-
clusions at the end of his argument:
Our pulp wood supply is nearly ex-
hausted.
The pulp wood supply Of Canada is ap-
parently inexhaustible
Free pulp would tend TO conserve our
pulp wood.
The production cost of print paper is
less in the United States than it is in
Canada.
"A ton Of news print paper costs in Cam
ada $29.54 to manufacture: In the United
States 1t costs $2T.74 per ton.
The print paper market is controlled In
the United States by a combination and
whatever duty the law may fix will assist
the combination in that control in viola
ton of the law of competition to the in
jury and outrage of the public.
By reason of such control the cost Of
print paper 10 the consumer has been ar
bitrarily advanced to an unreasonable and
unconscienable profit to the manufac-
turer.
Print paper advanced from S3S in 1907
TO S42 and $50 per ton in 1908.
The importation OF print for all time
has been neglfble.
The proposed duty on pulp and trint
paper is therefore not necessary for pro-
tective purposes nor useful for revenue
purposes. II is therefor an eutlaw duty
and should be stricken from this BILL
All of the finance committees recom-
nendattons yesterday afternoon in the
and the paragraph as amended was
finally adopted. The committees sugses-
tions for changes in the silk schedule were
also adopted. A number OF other COM
m!ttee amendments OF minor charac-
ter were presented just before adjourn