The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-23
DEMOCRATS To GUT
PRINT PAPER DUTY
BELIEVED TARIFF ON TOBACCO
AND CIGARS WILL BE
RETAINED.
BIBLES ON FREE LIST.
All Religious Works Probably Exempt
SIS to 40 Per Cent Increase
On Foreign Wall
Paper.
BIBLES ON FREE LIST

Washington, Jan. S.-Suhstantial
reduction of the tariff all along the
line in the wood pulp and print paper
schedule and retention of approNi-
mately the existing duties on tobacco,
cigars and similar articles constitute
part of the Democratic tariff revision
program to be presented to the COM
ing extra session of congress.
Two Sessions Held.
This was the situation as viewed
by the Democratic leaders. following
two sessions in the marshalling of
testimony on schedule NJ. pulps. pa
pers and books, and F. tobacco and
it's manufactures.
Just how far the Democratic men,
bers will go in cutting the paper
schedule is problemati So far they
have not held a conference on the
subject but the concensus of their SEN
timent favors reduction wherever
possible in this part of the tariff law.
OF the incidental portions of the
schedule it is probably assured that
the committee will provide for free
admission of Bibles and of other relig-
ious works. A plea for elimination Of
the Is per cent duty on Bibles was
made yesterday by a Presbyterian
publication through R. r. Magill Of
Richmond, Va, it's secretary.
Tobacco Considered Luxury.
Most of the Democratic members
of the committee, if not all of them
regard the items in the tobacco SEIZED.
ules as Injuries, and most easily
adapted to revenue raising purposes
among the IA schedules of the tariff
law.
Chief interest of the day centered
in the presentation of the arguments
Of the spokesman Of the newspaper
publishers and of the Numerically op-
posed paper manufacturers.
John Norris of New York, chair
man of the committee on paper of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association, representing consumers
who pay s55, 100000 a year for news
print paper-the newspapers through
out the country-presented testimony
frequently marked by colloquys with
Republican members of the commit
tee in favor of letting down the tariff
bars that shut out Canadian paper
and the cutting off of all restrictions
upon the importation of the cheaper
grades Of paper and wood pulps enter
ing into paper manufa cture.
The American Paper and Pulp asso-
citation, through Arthur C. Hastings
of New York city, it's president, rep
resented he said, the paper industry
with an investment of $4O0,0O0,0O0,
voiced opposition to a change in the
present tariff.
There were many other witnesses.
Representatives of the wall paper in
dustry, through Robert Graves of New
York, urged an increase from IS to
40 per cent on foreign wall paper,
which he said comes into competition
with the higher grades of domestic
wall paper. He said the annual pro-
duction of the wall paper industry
is $13,OO0,O0O and consumption $685.
600 more.
Representative Palmer of Pennsyl-
vania (Democrat) suggested that the
witnesses, with the tariff on cheaper
grades of wall paper already prohibi-
tive, would make the rate on the high
er grades prohibitive.
Mr.. Graves said that foreign wall
paper is luxury of people of means.
Mr.. Norris Plea.
Mr.. Norris, in his plea for news
print paper from across the American
border, said that the American news.
paper publishers wanted congress "to
insure the procurement of perma-
nent and adequate supply of cheap pa
per by broadening the paper market to
the utmost" He arraigned what he
called the primitive methods of Ameri
can paper manufacturers and the an.
tiquity of their papermaking machines