River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-31
OF POSTAL
COMMISSION OUT
URGES ADDITIONS TO LAW ON
SEcoND-cLAsS MATTER.
RULES FOR NEWSPAPERS
Supplements and Sample Copies
Appointment of Appeals Com
mission of Three Is Rec
commended.

| Washington, Jan. 28.-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 existing Law relative to
| the second-class mail matter and
what changes, if any, should be made,
was made public Sunday.
The commission makes a number
| of sweeping recommendation looking
to reform in the postal service, and
has drafted a measure embodying
such changes as it thinks ought to be
made.
New Rules Recommended.
Among the most important addi-
tons to existing law as regards sec
! ond-class mail matter embodied in
this measure are the following:
A newspaper or other periodical
may be in part composed of adver-
| tisements which are permanently in
serted in, or attached to the same,
but such advertisements shall not
constitute more than so per cent. of
the superficial area of any issue of
the publication; nor shall any adver-
tisements 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 a newspaper or other
periodical may be composed of parts
or sections, but all such parts or sec
lions shall be made Of the same size,
form and weight Of paper, and shall,
when taken together, form one com
plete and identifable whole. All pro-
visions of law applicable to a news
paper or periodical shall apply equally
to each and every section thereof.
AS to Supplements.
With a regular issue of newspa-
per or other periodical the supple
ment 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 they be
of different form from the main body
of the publication. No supplement
vertisements, but the same shall be
confined to matter germane to the
regular issue 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-
tons consisting wholly or substan-
TALLY of fiction.
With each issue of a newspaper or
other periodical the publisher may
mail at the second-class rate of post
age samples of such issue, but mot to
exceed ten per cent. of the total num-
Der of the copies of each issue mailed
by him to actual subscribers, as the
same appears by sworn statement
of such issue required to be submit
ted to the postmaster at the office of
mailing"
Commission of Appeals
The appointment of postal ap-
peals commission in the post Office
department is provided for, to consist
of three members, at least one of
whom shall be person who has had
actual experience in the conduct of
the publishing 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 Col
umbia. The commission is to enter
upon its duties on the first of next
July
The object of this commission is to
allow the proprietor or publisher of
any newspaper or periodical 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 it, and
which commission shall hear, consid-
er and determine such appeal with
respect as well to matters of fact as
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.