Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-28
Members of Commission Ap-
pointed by Last Congress
Recommend Restriction of
Second Glass Mail Privilege,
PUBLICATIONS MUST
CONFORM TO RIGID RULES
Those Consisting Of Fiction OF
Largely. of Fiction Barred
From Newspaper ClaSSifica-
ion--AppeaIS Provided for.
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Washington Jan, 27.-The report
Of the joint postal commission author
lied at the last session of congress to
investigate and report to that body
its conclusions on the operation and
effect Of the legislative laws relative to
second class mail matter and what
changes, III any, should be made, was
made public today The commission
makes a number of sweeping recon-
mendations looking to reform in the
postal service and has drafted a meas
ure embodying such changes as il
thinks ought to be made. Among the
most important addition to existing
law as regards second class mail mat
ter embodied in this measure the fol-
lowing:
A newspaper or other periodical
matter in part composed of adVer-
tisements which are permanently in
serted Or attached to, but such adj
vortiscments shall not constitute more
than fifty per centum of the super
fetal area of any issue of the publi-
cation nor shall any advertisements be
printed on card, cloth or any sub
stance other than paper, norenewspa-
per of any greater weight than the
text of such publication.
9 An issre Of a newspaper or other
periodical may be composed of parts
Or sections, but all such parts or sec
tions shall he made of the same size,
form and weight of paper, and shall,
when collected together form one COM
plete and identiicable whole. All pro-
visions Of law applicable TO a news
paper or periodical shall apply equally
to each and every section thereof
With a regular issue of a neWspa-
per or other periodical, the supple
ment may be enclosed or folded The
supplements shat not be printed on
other substance than paper except in
the case of maps and plans illustrative
of the text. and shall not be Of differ
elnt form from the main body of the
publications. No supplement shall be
composed of or contain advertisements
but the same shall be confined to mat
ter germane to the regular issue ana
supplied in order to comp'ete matter
left incomplete in the main body OF
the publication.
The pronosed law refuses the sec
ond class rate Of periodical publica-
tons consisting wholly or substantially
of fiction.
With each issue of newspaper or
other periodical the publisher may
mail at the second class rate of pos
-tage sample copies Of such issue. but
not to exceed ten per centrm of the
total number Of the copies of each is
sue mailed by him to actual subscribe
crs. a. the same appears by a sworn
statement of such issue REQUIRED to be
submitted to the postmaster at the Of
fee of mailing.
The appointment of a postal appeals
commission in the postoflice depart
ment is provided for to consist of
three members, at least one of whom
shall be a person who has had actual
experience in the conduct of the pub
fishing business, and at least one OF
whom shall be learned in the law and
a 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 uDon its
duties July | next.
The object OF this commission is To
allow the proprietor or publisher or
any newspaper or periodica1 publica-
ton, the application for the admission
of which to the second class of mail
matter has been denied by the post
master general to appeal to. II. and
which commission shall hear, con-
slider and determine such appeal with
respect as well to matters of fact as
well as to matters of law
Authority is given the postmaster
general to require an opinion of the
committee regarding questions of law
respecting the classification of mail
matter and the right to admission to
the second class.
If in the judgment OF the postmaster
general the second class privilege OF
any publication should be suspended,
revoked or annulled, he must submit
the case by petition or by information
to the commission. Publishers and
proprietors are to be given due notice
of application to the commission to-
gether with the grounds on which sus-
pension. annullment or revelation
shall be made. Persons to whom such
notice Is given are required to answer
such rule, petition or application and
the commission Is empowered to hear
the case and render a decision.
The findings. determination, decision
or Judgment Of the commission on any
appeal from a refusal to admit second
class publications or for the removal
from the second class or the suspen-
sion, annullment or revocation Of its
second class privileges shall be final
and conclusive.
The construction or application of
any law or statute relating to classifi-
cation of mail matter made by the
commission, shall be controlling In
the postofflce and all its employees, un-
lees overruled nv some competent
court of the United States.
Proprietors and publishers of news
papers and periodicals may apply "a
have the same placed on a register OF
the postoffice department as being en-
titled tn second class rates. such APP
plication to be verified by the oath Of
the applicant and accompanied by
copy of the newsnaner or periodical
as wei as a fee Of 50, Pending ma
action on the application the post
master general 4 authorized to issue