The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-10-20
POSTMASTER GENERAL DEALS A
CRUSHING BLOW TO FAUGUST
IN DECISION.
is PRINTED ONLY FOR
CAMPAIGN PURPOSES
II Has No List OF Paid Subscribers and
Is Therefore Not Entitled to Regular
Newspaper Rates--No New Develop
ments in the Cas-" II the United
States Against the : ,lIshcrs.

Faug Heinzc's little . nalisiic expert
ment has cost him just S n :. .3S more than
it would had he condu & | legitimate
newspaper in place of 'rchcnsiblc adj
vcrtising dodger whose nifcst purpose
IT has been to attack II lcccnt and re-
spectacle interests of b, and to gorify
the underhanded dcalini ~ If the United
Copper company
When the disonani blarc Of the Rcvclle
first sounded from the rear alleys of
Butte its perpetrators applied at the local
postofiice to have il entered here as a
regular journal IN order to get the pound
postage rate of cent that is made to all
legitimate newspapers. Postmaster Irwin
filed the application and in due time sent il
on to Washington where such matters are
passed upon by i. {. Madden third as
sistant postmaster.
Madden has had great deal of expert
ence with this character of literature and
it did not take him long to get at the bot
tom Of the Reviler's scheme. In fact, sec.
ond-class matter. as the pound rate pa
pers are termed by the postollicc, is the
cause OF great less to the government
each year, and il has been the aim of the
government to weed out all of the spurious
publications that are now coming in under
that classification.
Must Pay Postage.
Consequently Postmaster General Mad
den promptly informed Postmaster Irwin
Of Butte that the Rcveille would not be en-
titled TO the second-class rate, because il
was not regular newspaper in the light
OF the construction that the department
had placed upon that term, IN view of the
fact that II had been organized manifestly
for campaign purposes and would not be
very long lived.
When the application Of the Revcllc
was entered here, the first issues OF the
paper were sent as third class matter nj
rate Of cents per pound. This is 7
cents over the regular newspaper charge
and rapidly amounts up when paper Is
given VIDE circulation. While the appli-
cation was pending the papers were sent
at the cent pound rate, but the postofice
department required a deposit for the
remainder which would have 10 be for
feited III case that the rate was not
granted
Up to date the Heinze outfit has paid
$2I2.5o for the mailing of their paper and
deposited the sim of $I,4o2.38 as evidence
OF the fact that the paper might not get on
the regular list Last week Postmaster
Irwin was notified that the Revcille could
not get the l cent rate and he was con-
sc1ucntly ordered to coniiscatc the deposit
oil $I,402.3S. In accordance with this
order stamps to that amount were can
eeled and sent to Washington Large
sheets OF paper were used for this pur-
pose, the stamps affixed to them and then
cancelled by drawing heavy black ink lines
through them. The denominations used
were and 10 cent stamps.
Not Labor Paper.
In their application for second class
privileges the owners OF the Reyeillc
claimed that their paper was labor or
gan; but Postmaster Madden aseertaincd
that the paper was not such Further
more he learned that it had no bonaiidc
list Of paid subscribers and that It's entire
support was derived from funds subscribed
ont OF campaign moneys.
There are no new developments in The
ease against the tooters of the Reyelle as
the hearing will not come off until
Wednesday moynng. The case will be
prosecuted by United States District At
torney Carl Rasch Of Helena and Com.
missioner Naughton will preside at the
hearing.
It is understood that in the future
Heinzc's sheet will pass up Uncle Sans
post because they find it too expensive and
exciting.