Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
TARIFF WAR WITH CANAOA?
REPRESENTATIVE MANN FORE
SEES TROUBLE BREWING.
Would Postpone Application of Law
Relating Thereto From April
1 to January I, 1911.

Representative Mann, who was chair
man of the special committee on wood
pup and print paper Of the last Con-
gress. and who prepared the provisions
on these items as first reported to the
House by the Payne tariff bill, but who
was overruled by Congress in the final
passage of the tariff law, takes the posi-
ton that the country may we'll be alarm
ed at the danger of tariff war with
Canada growing out Of the tariff on wood
pulp and print paper under the Payne
act.
Mr. Mann has prepared and at the be-
ginning Of the forthcoming session of
Congress will introduce several bills and
Joint resolutions relating to this subject.
One Of his measures Is joint resolution
to postpone the application of the maxi
mum tariff from April 1 next to January
l, 1911.
Another of his resolutions provides that
the maximum tariff of the United States
shall be held not to Apply to wood pulp
and printing paper imported from
Canada.
Free Wood Pulp and Printing Paper
Mr. Mann has also prepared and will
Introduce a bill which provides that
wood pulp and printing paper shall be
admitted free of duty when Imported
from Canada, being the product thereof,
on the condition precedent that Canada
or the province in which the wood pu p
or printing paper is manufactured shall
not forbid or restrict or impose any ex-
port duty or export license fee upon
printing paper, mechanically GROUND
wood pulp or wood used In the manu-
facture of wood pulp.
These measures all naturally when in
troduced wi be referred by the Speaker
to the committee on ways and means,
but Mr.. Mann may make a fight In the
House to have them referred to the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
MERGE of which he is the new chairman.
Mr.. Mann says that under the rules OF
the House If the ways and means COM
mittee declines to report upon his propo-
sitions he can bring them before the
them away from the committee on ways
and means and refer them to his own
committee.
Canada Likely to Retaliate.
In the last Congress, when the ways
and means committee was endeavoring
to smother the bill introduced by Mr..
Mann to prevent the importation OF
smoking opium, he sent notice to
every member of the House that on a
certain morning he would move to take
IndL Dill lIOIl lA0 ways hA0 AhS1iiS VIM
mittee and refer it to a friendly COM
nittee The result was a passage OF
arms between Mr.. Mann and Chairman
Payne of the ways and means committee
on the floor of the House, but Payne was
compelled to report favorably Mann {
opium bill. and it became law.
Mr. Mann says that unless some legis-
lation such as he proposes be adopted or
a reciprocal treaty with Canada be
agreed to, Canada, smarting under the
Of fho
ly to forbid the expectation of pulp
wood from Canada to the United States
and thereby not only close up a number
Of the newspaper mills Of the United
States, but increase the cost and price
of print paper to a point which will in
dict tremendous injury not only upon
newspapers. but upon the book publish
ers. including especially school books.