The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-28
NEW POSTAL LAWS
RULINGS ON SECOND CLASS MAIL
 NATTER
No Newspaper win Re Allowed Bcnent of Rate That Does Not Carry
 Fifty Per Cent ReadinE Matter.

at tns AdSt sessiVn or congress to in- vestigate and report to that body its conclusions on the operation and effect of the existing law, relative to second class mail matter, and what changes fl any. should be made. was made public today.
 The commission makes a number oi sweeping recommendations looking tc a reformed postal service and has drafted measure embodying such changes as 1t thinks ought to be made Among the most important additions to existing law as regards second class mail matter embodied in this meas sure are the following:
 newspaper or other periodical may he in part composed of advertisements which are permanently inserted in or attached to the same but such adver- tisements shall not constitute more than fifty per centum of the superficial area of any issue of the publication: nor shall any advertisement be printed on card, cloth, or any substance other than paper. nor upon paper of any greater weight han the text of such publication.
 An issue of a newspaper ors any oth- CT periodical may be composed of parts ar sections. but all such parts or sec tions shall be made of the same size form and weight of paper and shall when taken together form the complete and ideutifiable whole. All provisions nf law applicable to newspaper or pert odical shall apply equally to each and every section thereof.
 That regular issue tof a newspaper or other periodical may be folded
 Supplements shall not be printed or other substances than paper or except In the case of maps and plans illustrs. tive of the text shall be of different from the main body of the publication No supplement shall be composed of or contain advertisements, but the same shall be confined to matter germane to the regular issue and supplied in order to complete the matter left incomplete in the main hody of the publication.
 The proposed law refuses the second class rate to periodicals publications consisting wholly or substantially of fiction.
 With each issue of a newspaper or other periodical the publisher may mail at the second class rate of postage, samples of such issue, but mot to exceed ten per centum of the total number of the copies of each issue mailed by him to actual subscribers. as the same appears by a sworn statement of such issue required to be submitted
 
 ing"
 The appointment of a postal appeals commission in the post office depart ment is provided for to consist of three members. at least one of whom shall be a person who has had actual ex- perience in the conduct of the publish ing business and at least of one of whom shall he learned in the law and member of ten years standing of the bar of the highest court of some state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia. The commission is to enter upon it's duty on July 1st, next\
 The object of this commission is to allow the proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodical publica- tion the application for the admission of which to the second class mail mat ter has been denied by the Postmaster General to appeal to it, and which shall hear consider and such appeal with respect as we'll to matters of fact as matters of law.
 Authority is given the Postmaster General to require an opinion of the regarding questions of law respecting the classification of all mail matter and the right to admission to the second class.
 If, in the judgment of the Postmas- ter General. the class privilege of any should be suspended re- voked or annulled, he must submit the case by petition or by information to the commission. Publishers and pro prietors are to be given due notice of aplication to the commission together with the grounds on which such sus- pension annullment or revocation should be made.
 Persons to whom such notice is given are required to answer such rule, peti- tion or application and the commission is empowered to hear the case ana rem der decision.
 The findings, determination, decision or Judgment of the commission on any appeal from refusal to admit second- class publications or for the remoVal from the second class or the suspen- sion. annu1lment or revocation or It's second class privilege shall be nnal and conclusive.
 The construction or application or any law or statute relating to classin- cation of mail matter made by the coin- mission shall be controlling on tue postoff1ce and all its employees, unless oVerruled by some competent cou'' the United States.
 Proprietors and publishers of news papers or periodicals may apply to have the same placed on a register or the Postof1ice Department as being entltled to second class rates, such application to be verified by the oath of the appll- cant and accompanied by copy of the newspaper or periodical. as well as a fee of S5 Pending final action on the the Postmaster General IS authorized to issue a temporary per init for the transmission of such pup lication at second class rates.
 The requirement. is made that where an article is offered for sale in combi- nation with the subscription for or periodical admitted to the second class. the price of such ar ticle shall be clearly stated in such together with the price Of publication and in all cases the regu- lar advertised price of the publication.
 The proposed bill provides for the of joint commission Of Congress to investigate the entire pos tai system.
 The commission urgently recom- mends a new weighing. similar to that now in progress, hut extended to em- brace for the period of six mopths, be- ginning July l. 1907, weighing of all mail matter transported throughout the entire United Sta class by class; a counting of all pieces of mail matter. class by class; a weighing and counting combined of the individual pieces of third, fourth and sec7nd class matter. according to its natural subdivision in such a manner as to show not merely the average weight of piece of such matter but the average weight of the individual pieces, owing to the classi- fcation in respect of character and method of handling; the ascertainment H.. rI A Al ell of