Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Directory and Historypublication of all acts of public and general interest in each journal of our State, andthose of local interest in the journals of that region, so that our laws shall be publishedthroughout our land to all the inhabitants thereof."The following resolution was offered by Edward L. Merritt, Esq., and unanimouslyadopted:"Rcsoh ((/, That a special committee of five be appointed on Associated PressDispatches, and that said committee b; instructed to enquire into the exorbitant pricesexacted by telegraph companies for said reports, and to report upon all telegraphicmatters at the next meeting of the body."The Chair appointed Messrs. Dowdall, Wilson, Bush, Emery and Flynn as thecommittee on organization of a Press Association."The Committee on Paper Monopoly submitted the following report, which, aftersome discussion, was unanimously adopted:"Your Committee on Paper Monopoly would beg leave to report that a portion(if your committee was deputed by the Western Associated Press, comprised of westernPennsylvania, and all of the States west of the Alleghanies to proceed to Washingtonin the winter of 1863, to urge upon Congress the reduction of the duty of thirty-fiveper cent upon foreign paper to a revenue standard. Secretary Chase in furtherance ofthis object recommended, that duty on foreign printing paper be reduced from thirtyfiveto five per cent. A subcommittee from all the States, east and west, had two interviewswith the Committee on Ways and Means of the House, (the Hon. ThaddeusStevens, Chairman) upon the subject, the result of which was that the duty on foreignpaper was reduced from thirty-five to twenty per cent, under which reduction Hon.Henry J.Raymond, of the New York Times, imported two lots of paper from Belgiumof 5,000 bundles each, at a cost of 1 5 cents per pound, the ruling rate of home-madepaper at the time being twenty-three cents per pound. The rapid advance in the priceof gold immediately afterwards forbade the further importation of foreign paper, andthe present twenty per cent duty amounts to a total prohibition upon importation."The committee would remark that the London papers are printed on Hoe pressesand Belgium papers—England not taxing printing paper from foreign countriesregarding cheap knowledge to the people as of the very first importance."The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives were averse tochanging the duties on the chemicals which enter so largely into the manufacture ofpaper, as they are used so much more extensively in other branches of manufacture."There is no duty on foreign rags imported into this country."The Legislatures of most of the States at the last session of Congress requestedtheir Senators and Representatives to reduce or abolish the duty on foreign printingpaper, and your committee are advised that this question is now under advisement bythe Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives at Washington, andwould therefore beg leave to offer the following on the part of the convention:"Resohcd, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress on behalf of thePress of Illinois, be requested to vote for a reduction of the duty on foreign printingpaper, from a prohibitory to a revenue standard."All of which is respectfully submitted.—John L. Wilson, Chairman."It was agreed, after considerable discussion, to allow advertising agents twentyper cent for advertisements furnished."The Committee on Legal and General Advertising submitted the following report,which, after some discussion, was adopted:"Your committee, to whom was referred back the report on advertising and resolutionsaccompanying the same, beg leave to submit the following schedule, as the16