The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-24


We believe" he said. that the day
| Will come OF an alliance OF all lands
springIng from Englauds ons ensurius
the peace, of the world forever
bankruptcy, and immediate steps were
taken 10 mark mp prices
Mr.. Norris accused the International
Paper company of selling paper abroad
cheaper than here, with having
launched into a gigantic wood land
speculation. with having on inflated
capitalization Of at least $40,000,000, !
and with keeping down production by
maintaining a capacity of only 80 per
| cent of modern equipment.
| a." Yet the International Paper com.
pany.' he added. "is asking congress
10 put a premium upon the antiquity
OF plants in mills that were verging on
bankruptcy thirteen years ago
Only Relief Offered.
'fThe Canadian provinces which
control the raw material of paper
manufacture, Mr.. Norris said, ''are
trying to force American paper mills
TO move to the other side of the bnun-
dary line, They have prohibited the
expectation of pulp wood from provin
cial land; they believe they can
stsrve out the American paper makers
whose domestic supplies are nearly ex
| hausted.
SIN 1901. the American paper max
ers had chance to consummate an ar
rangement with Canada whereby the
supply of wood from the province of
Quebec would be continued indefinitely.
But the American senate, at the insti
CATION Of Former Senator Hale and of
| the extreme stand patters' among the
paper makers, upset that arrangement
and undertook TO buldoze the Cana
dian provinces so that it could force
them by the imposition of retaliatory
duties to let their pulp wood into the
United States without restriction. In
stead of composing the situation they
provoked an ugly complication, to
which the paper clause of the reel
procity treaty offers the only inmedi
ate and promising solution
Lew Prevents Shipment.
American paper makers. said Mr..
| Norris, own over 10000 square miles
Of timber rights on the crown lands of
Quebec from which they can not now
ship wood pulp because of the prohibi-
tlon OF May !, 1910.
Mr. Norris referred to Clifford Pin
chot S estimate three years ago of the
available supply of wood pulp timber
in the United States, which would last
| as follows
New York state. eight and half
years; Pennsylvania nine years: Min
nesota nine years, Vermont eleven
years; New Hampshire twenty-five
| wears, and Maine twenty-seven and a
half years.
Concluding, Mr., Norris said that
nearly 40 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 indus
try he said, ''paid $40 9,406,074 TO
foreigners in 1910 for pulp woods and
pulp TO keep American paper mills go
ing. The consumers paid penalties of
$500 in retaliatory duty because
there was an adequate supply of free
wood in Canada available for the needs
of this market. -
Questioned by Committee.
Mr., Norris was questioned by various
members of the committee as to the pur-
poses of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association. He declared that, as
chairman OF the paper committee he had
TO do missionary work among senators
and in other places.
he said
bureau had not sent out various pam
phets urging the passage OF the reci-
procity bill, Senator Williams interrupted
by asking
a. did not So4ps Sonsdes 95 it sena any out crime @
erature in favor of placing things on
tho free lst@
on the repled I'd Mr. tDs Norris Fbs
senate undertook to '.bulldozo the Cana
diam dian : provinces" Senators Bailey and
Hepburn objected 10 the word "bulIdoze"
and had IL stricken from tho record.
Mr., Norris sought to show that the In
ternational Paper company is comb
nation in restraint OF trade.
He declared he had been unable to
procure paper al market prices at any
\ papcr mill east Of the Rocky mountains.
The American Paper and Pulp associa-
ton he claimed, was $50 called bu-
reau of statistics 10 enable the paper
makers OF this country TO maintain prices
at an agreed figure"
Attacks Paper Company.
In ATTACKING the international Paper
sorbed nearly all the paper mills in the
United States, that IL controlled much
\ undcveloped paper mill water power; that
II started Immediately ,tS after Its organi
| that 1t had reduced its output so as to
increase the market price.
The corporation had an excessive cap
italization. said Mr.. Norris. which was
inflated at least $40, 900, 900 He declared 1t
frequently sold paper for from IS to $40
a ton cheaper abroad than in this coun-
/ try.
Mr. Norris declared the newspaper pub
fishers in the same city are obliged TO
pay different prices for the paper they
purchase from the International company,
HI When Mr.. Norris read figures from the
tariff boards report showing the five
II mills in this country's manufacture al S25
a Ton, more newspaper than the Canadian
mills manufacture at s27 ton, sena-
tor Lodge insisted on reading the entire
Il table showing that the average cost OF
\ production IN this country is more than
s32 ton Mr.. Norris declared this was
4 due 10 antique machinery equipment In
American making