The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-24

voked an ugly complication, to which the paper clause of the reciprocity treaty offers the only immediate and promising solution.''
 MT Norris said the duty of g 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 authorities showed grim determination in that the province of Quebec recently re- fused to consider a proposition of free paper in exchange for free wood.
 They believe they have precipitated a paper maker at their mercy and they propose to bring the paper industry to that province upon terms dictated by them.
 American paper makers, said MT. Norris, own over 12,000 square miles, of timber rights on the crown lands of Quebec from which they cannot now ship wood pulp because of the prohi- bition of May 1, 1910.
 MT. Norris referred to Clifford Pin- chots estimate three years ago of the available supply of wood pulp timber in the United States, which would last as follows:
 New York, sh years; Pennsylvania, years; Minnesota, years; Vermont, II years; New Hampshire. 25 years, and Maine, 2s1a years.
 Concluding, Mr. Norris said that nearly 40 per cent of the wood pulp which the United States now uses as the raw material of cheap paper comes from abroad A3,.
 The paper industry he said, paid $1s,406,074 to foreigners in the calendar year, 1910, for pulp woods and pulp to keep American paper mills going" The consumers penalties of $15,000.
 Mir. Norris was questioned by various members of the committee as to the purposes of the American Newspaper Publishers association. He declared that his work as chairman of the paper committee had been to do missionary work among senators and if otlier places The work had been all in the open. he added, no effort having been made to conceal anything. . When Senator Shoot asked him if his bureau had not sent out various pamphlets urging the passage of the reciprocity bill, Senator Williams inter- rupted by asking:
 ', You did not consider it any crime, did you, MT. Norris, to send out liter aure in favor of. placing things on tHe Iree Ist
 On the contrary" replied MT. Norris. When Mir. Norris declared that the American Senate undertook to bull do1eY the Canadian province, Senators Bailey and Heyburn. objected to the word "bulldoze' and had 1t stricken from the record.
 Mir. Norris sought to show that the In- ternational Paper company is a."combina- tion in restraint of trade''
 He declared that he had been unable to procure paper at mRrket prices at any paper mill east of the Rocky mountains. The American Paper and Pulp associa- ton, he claimed, was a so-called bureau of statistics to enable the papermakers of the country. to maintain prices at an agreed figure" r In attacking the international Paper company Mir, Norris declared that 1t had absorbed nearly all the paper mills in the United States; that 1t controlled much undeveloped paper mill water power, that it had started immediately after it's organization on wood land speculation" and that 1t had reduced it's output so as to increase the market price. t
 The corporation had an excessive capi- talisation, said Mir. Norris, whicl, was in- Hated at $4o,c0o,e00. He declared it fre- quently sold paper for from & to s10 ton cheaper abroad than in this coun- try.
 Mr. Norris declared newspaper publish CTS in the same city are obliged to- pay different prices for the paper they pur- chase from the international company.
 When Mfr Norris read figures from the tariff board reports showing that five mills in this country manufacture at about s2S ton more print paper than the Can