Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-05-25


mercial agreement between this coun.
try and Canada is reciprocity and
that such was the understanding o1
those who framed it, Senator Root
today appeared before the senate
finance committee and suggested an
amendment to the house bill which
would prevent wood pulp and paper
from coming into the country free un-
til it was free from all provinces OF
Canada.
Senator Root argued that such an
amendment would not prevent the
agreement as a whole from becoming
effective. On the other hand, John
Norris, of New York, representing
the American Newspaper Publishers
association, commenting on the pro-
posed amendment, said that it's adop-
tion would be fatal to the agreement.
Senator Roots amendment was de-
signed to make pulp and paper free on
both sides at the same time, instead
of allowing the importation at once of
free pulp and paper from these pro-
vinces in Canada in which there are
no restrictions regarding the exporta-
tion of those articles.
The bill now, he asserts, contains
no provision whatever for the free
admission of paper and wood pulp into
Canada.
His amendment would add to the
wood pulp and paper provision the
stipulation that Canada may have the
right to import those articles free
"only when the President of the
United States shall have satisfactory
evidence and shall make proclamation
that such admission of wood pulp,
paper and boards, being the product of
the United States, are admitted into
Canada free of duty"
Washington, May 18. = A new or
ator appeared in the ranks of the Re-
publican minority in congress today.
The opening speech on the Arizona
New Mexico statehood resolution,
distinction accorded to Frank B. Will
lis, freshman from Ohio, turned out
to be two hours running fire of re-
partee and fight with the Democratic
leaders.
In supporting the New Mexican
constitution as President Taft has ap-
proved it, Willis drew the fire of
Chairman Flood and half dozen
prominent Democrats. He was armed
with a mass of constitutions and or
ganic acts of the various states and,
whenever a new proposition was advo-
Gated, he would say: I've got it,
right here, " while the Republican side
cheered and laughed.
Hamilton of Michigan, ex-chairman
of the territories committees,
urged the immediate approval of the
New Mexican constitution. The Re-
publican speakers condemned the recall
of Judges in the Arizona constitution
and approved the plan to force Arizona
to vote again on that feature, but they
declared no change should be made
in the New Mexican constitution.
Washington, May IT, President
Taft today sent the to senate the Tar
iff boards full report of its investigas
tion of the pulp and news paper indus
try in the United States and Canada. |
briefly, the report says
ton of news print paper is made in
Canada for SIS, 35 less than it is made
in the United States. The average
Canadian cost is given as $27.53 and
the average cost in the United States
at $32.88. The duty under the pres
ent tariff is $3.75.
The document presents extensive
tables, comparisons and other tabula-
tions. 1t is said to be the most com
plete report of the kind ever attempt
ed. The entire force of the Tariff
board has been engaged upon it for
months.
Several factors entering into the in
creased cost of manufacture in the
United States are taken up exhaus-
lively in the report. The principal
Increases are said to be due to the fact
that a ton of pulp wood costs nearly
twice as much in the United States
as it does in Canada and that many
If the American mills have much
older and much less effective equip
nent than the Canadian mills.