The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-18
Cigars and Similar Articles
Also to Figure in Tariff
Revision
FREE ADMISSION OF
ALL RELIGIOUS WORKS
Chief Interest of Day Centers in Arr
guments of Newspaper Publish
ers and Opposing Paper
Manufacturers

Washington, January 17--Substantiai
reduction of the tariff all along the line
in the wood pulp and print paper schedule
and retention of approximately the ex-
listing duties on tobacco, cigars and SIM
liar articles constitute part OF the dem-
ocratic tariff revision programme to be
presented to the coming extra session of
Congress. This was the situation as
viewed by democratic leaders after two
sessions today and another tonight in
the marshalling of testimony on schedules
M. pulps. papers and books. and f. to-
baceo and its manufactures.
Just how far the democratic members
will go in cutting the paper schedule
is problematical. So far they have not
had a conference on the subject. but the
consensus of their sentiment fayors re-
duction wherever possible In this part OF
the tariff law.
or the Incidental portions of the sehed-
ule it is probably assured that the COM
mttee will provide for free admission
of Bibles and of other religious works.
A plea for elimination of the 95 per cent
duty on Bibles was made today by the
Presbyterian committee of publication,
through IL. r. MdSili Oh fNicnnlohd, Va
it's secretary
Tobacco a Luxury
Most of the democratic members OF
the committee, if not all of them. regard
the items in the tobacco schedule az
luxuries. and one of the schedules most
easily adapted to revenue raising pur-
poses.
Chief interest of the day centered In
presentation of arguments of the spokes-
man OF the newspaper publishers and
of the Numerically opposed paper manu-
facturers. John Morris of New York,
chairman Of the committee on paper
of the American Newspaper Publishers
association. representing consumers who
pay S55, 100000 year for news print paper
1.-THE newspaper throughout the country =
presented testimony, frequently marked
by colioauies with republican nienl5tf ~
of the committee, in favor Of letting
down the tariff bars that shut out Ca
madam paper and the cutting off of all
restrictions upon the importation of the
cheaper grades of paper and wood pulps
entering into paper manufacture. The
American Paper and Pulp association,
through Arthur G. Hastings OF New York
city, its president representing, he said.
the paper industry with an investment
OF $4DOuOn,Vvb ana an annual business OF
$500 100000 voiced opposition 10 a change
in the present tariff.
Urge Increase on Foreign Paper
Representatives of the wall paper in
dustry, through Robert Graves of New
York, urged an increase from 80 TO 40
per cen on foreign wall paper. which
he said comes into competition with the
higher grades of domestic wall paper.
Mr. Morris, in his plea for news print
paper from across the Canadian border,
said that the American newspaper pub
fishers wanted Congress to insure the
procurement of adequate supply of cheap
paper by broadening the paper market
to the utmost"
He arraigned what he called the prim-
tive methods Of American paper manu-
factures and the antiquity of their paper
machines.
John T. Wheelwright of Boston, a paper
manufacturer later testified that the pa
per manufacturers would consider them
selves ''fit subjects for the lunatic asylum
II they did not have modern machines"
Mr. Morris asserted that the paper ma
kers had been coddled and enervated by
the tariff; that the International Paper
company had fslsified and juggled the
figures and had starved the market; that
there have been fixed prices for years
among the paper manufacturers, and that