The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-01-28
As to Second Class Mail
Matter Is Urged.
RADICAL CHANGES
Are Suggested in Lengthy R,porI
Sent to Congress by the Joint
Postal Commission.

Washington, Jan. 2S--The report of
the Joint postal commission authoriz.
ed at the last session of congress to
Investigate and report to that body its
conclusions on the operation and eff
feet OF the existing law relative to
second class mail matter and what
changes, If any, should be made, was
made public Sunday. Among the
most important additions to the ex.
listing law as regards second class
mall matter embodied in this measure
are the following:
newspaper or other periodical
may be in part composed Of advertise
ments which are permanently insert.
ed In, or attached to the same, but
such advertisements shall not constl.
tute more than so per cent. of the
superficial area of any issue of the
publications; nor shall any advertise.
ment be printed on card, cloth. or any
substance other than paper, nor upon
paper OF greater weight than the text
OF such publication.
An issue Of newspaper or other
periodical may be composed of parts
or sections, but all such parts or sec
form and weight of paper, and shall,
when taken together, form one COM
plete whole. All provisions of law
applicable to a newspaper or period.
cal shall apply equally to each and
every section thereof.
With a regular issue OF newspaper
or other periodical supplement may
be inclosed or folded
Supplements shall not be printed on
any other substance than paper nor
except in the case of maps and plans
Illustrative of the text, shall be of diff
ferent form from the main body of the
publication. No supplement shall be
composed of or contain advertise
nents, but the same shall be confined
TO matter germane TO the regular IS.
sue and supplied in order to complete
matter left incomplete in the main
body Of the publication.
The proposed law refuses the sec.
ond class rate to periodical publica-
tions consisting wholly or substanti-
ally of fiction.
The appointment of postal appeals
ment Is provided for, to consist of
three members, at least one of which
shall be 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
member OF ten years standing of
the bar of the highest court of some
state OF territory of the United States,
or the District Of Columbia.
The object of this commission is to
allow the publisher Of any newspaper
or periodical publication, the applica.
tion for the admission OF which to sec.
ond class mail matter has been de.
MED by the postmaster general, to ap.
peal to 1t, and which commission shall
hear and determine such appeal.
The commission urgently recon.
mends new weighing, similar to that
now In progress, but extended to EN-
brace for the period of six months be.
ginning July /, 1907, a weighing of all
mail matter transported throughout
the United States, class by class; ac,
counting of all pieces of mail matter,
class by class; weighing and count.
ing combined of the individual pieces
of third, fourth and second class mat.
ter, according to its natural sub.
division, In such manner as to show not
merely the average weight Of piece OF
such matter, but tho average weight
OF the individual pieces according to
the classification in respect of charac.
ter and method Of handling.
The commission is In accord with
the views OF the postmaster general
that the whole business system of the
postal service should bo oyerhruled
by a set of expert acCJuntRnts TO be
secured from outside The Dc cpartment