Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-22
ROOT SEES DEFEAT
Admits Amendment to Trade
Pact viii Be Lost.
WILL VOTE FOR MEASURE
Representative Mann Attacks Wood
Pulp and Print Paper Section
as Paradoxical.
WILL VOTE FOR MEASURE

Senator. Root Of New York. In a speech
on the reciprocity bill In the Senate yes
terday afternoon, admitted his amend
ment affecting wood pulp and print paper
will he defeated by an overwhelming vote
and announced his intention to vote for
the bill and IL vote against amendments
to II.
Il have become satisfied said he.
that this amendment which bears my
name will not be adopted. For many
different reasons n large majority of the
Senate are going 10 vote against il. /
am not going to discuss the question
whether the duty ought 70 be taken off
pulp and paper. It Is a modest 10 per
cent on making the paper. and I am
not going to discuss the question wheth-
er it should be taken off 1t Is going to
be. But / do not want il done under cover
Of the reciprocity agreement, and I am
satisfied to have proposed this amend
ment and to have had 1t discussed here.
because it has taken off the cover that
was spead over it so largely by public
misapprehension. The amendment that
the House adopted for the taking off Of
this duty a separate and independent
thing is going TO pass. but it is not
StiIlS u pass 1dfSe pletSHScor
inadvertent or otherwise. It is going to
pass because this Congress means to
take that duty off. and not because it is
any part Of the reciprocity agreement"
Mann Attacks Amendment.
Attack on the Root amendment as a
violation of the agreement was made
in the House yesterday by Representa-
practical effect Of the amendment was
to say: This section shall never take
effect
1T would be of no benefit to any one
he said except those paper mills in
the United States which own a tempo
rary supply of spruce wood-pulp forests
and which hope to convert them into
paper at high prices during the next few
years, leaving the future to look out for
itself. This is neither craftsmanship nor
wise economy. If the reciprocity bill
comes back to the House with such an
amendment to the pulp and paper pro-
vision, which is absolutely destructive of
its purpose and which renders its intent
entirely ineffective. l trust that it will
meet with instant and decisive disap-
prevail here.
The amendment provides that there
shall be no free paper or wood pulp from
Canada until the President shall have
satisfactory evidence and shall make
proclamation that such wood pulp. paper
and board. being the product of the
United States, are admitted into Canada
and every province thereof free of duty"
Destroys Agreement"
The Root amendment" said Mr.. Mann,
destroys the agreement as 10 pulp and
paper. It completely prevents the i'm
portation Of paper free from Canada or
of paper into Canada from here free.
As the Root amendment provides that
the pulp and paper provision In the act
shall not take effect until Canada adj
mits all of our paper free Of duty and
as Canada does not, under the terms Of
the agreement, admit our paper free of
duty until we admit all of her paper free
OF duty, and We have a provision or
condition precedent in the act to the eff
rect That We will not admit paper COM
ing from p ovince free Of duty IL made
from pulp wood that might not have
been exported to US, we would leave IL
within the power of any one province in
Canada to prevent the taking effect Of
any portion Of these provisions and there
by prevent the admission OF any paper
Tree merely by refusing to remove the
restrictions II makes in its cont act on
the expectation of pulp wood. If this
power be left In each individual province
OF Canada it is absolutely certain that
the provision in the act is not worth tie
paper II Is written on"
Mr.. Mann contended that only BY eS-
taolishing competition between the pri-
vate wood lands and the crown lands
could the provinces be brought to re-
move the restrictions which they have
placed on the importation into this coun-
Try free q duty Of wood pulp from crown