The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-09
he MAKES GOOD.
John Norris Fulfills His Prom
Use to Congress
With Facts and Figures Regard
ing Paper Industry.
PRICE HAS ADVANCED
In the Face Of Tariff Reduction
by Payne Bill.
Product Sold Abroad at Less
Than Domestic Rate.
PRICE HAS ADVANCED

Washington, Feb 9.-The paper and
pulp wood provisions of the Canadian
| reciprocity agreement formed the sub
Ject Of a prolonged session of the
house ways and means committee to-
day, the principal witness being Chair
man John Norris of the paper COM
mittee of the American Newspaper
Publishers association Mr. Norris
was reinforced by Don C. Seitz bust
ness manager of the New York World,
another member of the paper com
mittee
Mr.. Norris made good his promise
of yesterday to make emphatic by an
array of facts and figures his advo-
cacy of the ratification of the re-
ciprocity agreement exactly as it
stands, including especially the pulp
and paper provisions.
Mr.. Norris characterized the agree
ment as the greatest economic ad-
vance made by the United States in the
present generation. 1t broadens our
markets, it promotes interchanges that
will Immediately and directly benefit
go per cent of the population He
said he appeared as the representa-
than 100000 dollars per annum for
news printing.
1.-The tangle of the American gov
eminent with Canadian provinces and
the tariff burdens imposed on print
paper have added more than six mil
AtOll QOIidIS pei d1luQIII " Tie pIlCC
which newspapers would pay for raw
material under normal conditions" he
said. THE complication with Canada
and the excessive duty have enabled
American paper makers to combine
for an advance in print paper prices.
Mr.. Norris alleged that the organ
ization of the paper makers was t'sys-
Dramatically starving the market and
in December last exported more print
paper than Canada shipped to us.
t Violate Sherman Laws.
can but two of fifty print paper
makers of the country Mr.. Norris de-
clared, "are violating the Sherman
law by restricting the use to which the
paper they sell can be put. No print
paper can be bought Ct. o. b. mill un-
less the name of the buyer, the destin-
alton of the paper and the use to
which it is to be put are disclosed, as
well as the information that the buyer
has no contract with any other mill"
Mr.. Norris said it was impossible for
the larger newspapers to obtain quo
tations from more than one mill at any
price. The largest buyer in the coun-
try, who uses one hundred thousand
tons per annum will probably pay an
increase of $600.000 per annum for
the paper because of the methods of
the paper makers Since. the passage
of the Payne-Aldrich law though the
duty on print paper had been reduced
$2.25 per ton, that is, from Sc to 1918
per ton the paper combination had ad-
vanced prices $3.50 per ton and
/ threatens further advances.
Publishers whose contracts are ex-
piring find that they cannot get any
! terms except from the mill which had
supplied them. A uniform price of $45
per ton has been established by the
paper makers.
! 1T makes no difference what the
freight rate is within a given zone
| The speaker said paper is sold abroad
| at less than the domestic price.
Foreign pulp he said, tshas 4dis-
| placed American puII, in the American
paper mills because of the primitive
conditions which prevail in American
| mills. The waste of wood and of ma
| terial and the bad workmanship adds
! more than SIC, 900 per annum to the
| cost of print paper which publishers
must pay.