Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-29
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE FLOODING
 WASHINGTON
Claim Law Prohibiting Agree ment With Railroads For Transportation Is Wrong and Should Be Amended.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-A brilliant galaxy of newspaper planets and fixed stars have been Illuminating Washing ton for a week. Two committees from the National Editorial Associa- ton. representing 20,000 daily and weekly newspapers, have been here looking after legislation affecting their interests and prerogatives, and are ac- companied by representatives of vari- ous state and distric>pewspaper asso- citations.
 The committee on postal affairs con- sists of B. B. Herbert, National Print er-Journalist, Chicago; A. w. Gless- ner, the Galena Gazette; A. w. Lee, the Ottumwa Courier: George C. Woodruff, the Litchfield (Conn) En .quirer, and George C. Fairbanks. the Natick (Mass) Review.
 The committee on transportation is E. w. Stevens, the Columbia (Ao.) Herald; w. F. Parrott, the Waterloo Qowal Reporter; R. H. Henry, the Clarion on-Register, Jackson. Miss: K NJ. White, the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger and H. A. Knapp, of the Auburn (N Y.) Advertiser.
 
 panied by J. E. Junkin, of the Stirling (Kan) Bulletin, president of the Ma tional Editorial Association, and w. A. Ashbrook, of the Johnstown (Ohiol News, who has recently been elected to Congress. These gentlemen are ex-officio members of both committees.
 The party has been received by the President of the United States, who is perhaps the most yoluminous contrib utor to the public press in the country; the visitors have conferred with Speak CT Cannon; they have had interviews with Chairman Penrose of the Senate, and Chairman Overstreet, of the House postoftice committees, and have cautioned those gentlemen against making any increase in postal rates on newspapers.
 They have also had q meeting with Chairman Hepburn, of the interstate commerce committee in support of a bill to amend the law so as to author ize railway companies to make con. tracts with newspapers for adverris- ing space and pay fol the same in transportation. Suct. an amendment has been offered in the Senate by MT Stone, of Missouri, and in the House by MT. Garrett, of Tennessee. This legislation is necessary, made so by a decision of the interstate commerce commission. The Editorial Associa- ton takes the ground that . newspa- per and railroad have a perfect right to enter into contracts under which ad. vertising space may be accepted for transportation, but the commission says that such an arrangement is a vio- iation of the law. It has always been customary for railway companies to insert advertisements and time table ! in newspapers and to furnish the pup- fisher and his family correSpondin amount of mileage tickets or passes This practice has been stopped. It is forbidden by the new rate law. Tle Editorial Association has asked mod iifcation of that act providing That 1t shall not be construed to prohibit newspapers, magazines and other pub lications admitted to the mails as sec ond-class matter, from entering into Legitimate and bona fide advertising contracts with common carriers al their usual and customary rates of ad verusing, and receiving payment fol such advertising from such common carrier in transportation over the lines thereof; such transportation to F"
 sued to such publishers at the regular published rates announced to the pub