Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-26
MORRIS URGES ADOPTION
OF THE PAPER CLAUSE"
Representative of American
Newspaper Publishers Assn
Talks on Reciprocity Bill
nv Associated Press,

adoption of the paper clause of the rec
4 iprocity agreement with Canada can
cheap paper and the retention of the
paper industry of the United States be
secured. according to John Norris. rep
resenting the American Newspaper Pub
fishing association. who appeared be-
fore the senate finance committee to-
day.
The Canadian provinces which con-
troll the raw material OF paper manu-
facture." Mr.. Norris said, ARE trying
TO force American paper mills to move
to the other side of the boundary line.
They have prohibited the expectation
OF pulp wood from provincial land; they
believe they can starve out the Amer
lean paper makers whose domestic sup
plies are nearly exhausted.
IN 1901" declared Mr.. Norris. the
American paper makers had chance
TO consummate an arrangement with
Canada whereby the supply of WOOD
from the province of Quebec would be
continued indefinitely. But the Ameri-
can senate at the instigation of ex-
Senator Hale and OF the extreme stand
PdAtcAS dAAAOIB the paper IudhoTb upset
that arrangement and undertook to bull
doze the Canadian provinces so that IT
could force them by the imposition of
retaliatory duties to let their pulp wood
into the United States without restric-
ton Instead Of composing the situation
they provoked an ugly complication to
which the paper clause OF the reciprocL
ity treaty offers the only immediate
and promising solution"
Mr.. Norris said the duty OF 81 per ton
proposed by the Mann committee which
was satisfactory at that time to the
Canadians would not now be considered
by them. He said that the provincial au-
thorities show grim determination in that
the province of Quebec recently refused
TO consider a proposition of free paper
in exchange for free wood. They believe
that they have precipitated a situation
which has put the American paper at
their mercy and they propose to bring
the paper industry to that province upon
terms dictated by them.
American paper makers, said Mr.. Nor
ris. own over L. 200 square miles of timber
rights on the crown lands Of Quebec.
from which they cannot now ship wood
pulp because OF the prohibition of May
1, 1910.
Mr.. Norris referred to Clifford Pinchot's
estimate three years ago of the available
supply Of wood pulp timber in the United
States which would last follows:
New York state, eight and one-half
years; Pennsylvania. nine years; Mime
sofa, nine years; Vermont. eleven years;
New Hampshire. twenty-five years. and
Maine, eight and one-half years.
Concluding, Mr.. Norris said that nearly
10 per cent Of the wood and pulp which
the United States now uses as the raw
material OF cheap paper comes from
abroad.
The paper industry" he said, paid
SIS. 406.074 to foreigners in the calendar
year 1910 for pulp woods and pulp to keep
American paper mills going. The con-
sumers paid penalties Of $4,000 in retail
atQry duties because there was an ade-
quate supply Of free wood in Canada
available for the needs of this market"
Mr.. Morris was questioned by various
members Of the committee as to the pur-
poses OF the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association. He declared that his
work as chairman OF the paper commit
tee had been TO do missionary work
among senator's and in other places. The
work had been all in the open. he adj
ded. no effort having been made to con-
ceal anything.
When Senator Smoot asked him II his
bureau had not sent out various pamph-
lets urging the passage Of the reciproc-
ity bill, Senator Williams interrupted by
asking: You did not consider 1t any
crime, did you Mr.. Morris, TO send out
literature in favor of placing things on
the free list2'
''On the contrary" replied Mr.. Morris.
When Mr.. Morris declared that the
American senate undertook to ''bulldoze
the Canadian provinces Senators Bali
ley and Hepburn objected to the word
''bulldoze." and had it. stricken from the
records
Mr. Morris sought to show that the
International Paper company is com
bination in restraint of trade"
He declared that he had been unable
10 procure paper at market prices at any
paper mill east of the Rocky Mountains.
The American Paper and Pulp associa-
ton. he claimed, was a so-oalled bureau
Of statistics to enable the paper maxi
ers OF the country to maintain prices
at an agreed figure
In attacking the International Paper
company, Mr.. Morris declared that It had
obtained nearly all the paper mills in
the United States that it controls much
undeveloped mill water power. that it had
started Immediately after it's organiza-
ton on woodland speculation" and that
1t had reduced its output so as to in
crease it's market price. He declared 1t fire.
quently sold paper for from s. to $40
a ton cheaper abroad than in this coun-
try