The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
POSTAL REFORMS.
\ Number Of Sweeping Changes in
Regulations Recommended.

| WashiT. gton, Jan. 28.-The report OF
the joint postal commission authorized
by the last session of congress to in
vestigate and report on the operation
| and effect of the existing laws relative
| to second class mail matter, and what
| changes, If any. should be made, made
public today. makes number OF
sweeping recommendations. and in
cludes a measure embodying proposed
changes.
Among the most important additions
to the existing law regarding second
class mail matter embodied in this
measure are these:
"A newspaper or other periodical may
be in part composed of advertisements
which are permanently inserted in, or.
attached to it, but such advertisements
shall not constitute more than 80 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 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 sections
shall be made Of the same size, form
and weigh. of paper, and shall, when
taken together from one complete and
identihable whole. All provisions of law
applicable to a newspaper or periodical
shall apply equally to each and every
section thereof.
with a regular issue of a newspaper
or other periodical the supplement-
may be closed or folded. Supplements
shall not be printed on other substance
than paper nor. except in the case OF
maps and plans illustrative of the text
shall be of different form from the main
body of the publication. No supplement
shall be composed of or contain adver-
tisements, but the same shall be con-
fined to matter germane to the regular
issue and supplied in order to complete
mater left incomplete in the main
body of the publication
The proposed law refuses the second
class rate to periodical publications
consisting wholly or substantially of
fiction.
other periodical the publisher may mail
at the second class rate of postage sam
pies of such issue, but mot to exceed
10 per cent of the total number of the
copies of each issue mailed by him to
actual subscribers"
The appointment of a postal appeals
commission in the postoff1Ce department
is provided for, to consist of three mem
bers, at least one of which shall be
person who has had actual experience
in the conduct of the publishing bust
ness, 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 upon its
duties July l next. Its object is to al
low the proprietor or publisher of any
newspaper or periodical publication the
application for the admission of which
to the second class or mail matter has
been denied by the postmaster general
to appeal to the commission with re-
spect to matters both of fact and law.
If in the judgment of the postmaster
general the class privilege of any pub
LEGATION should be suspended. revoked
or annulled, he must submit the case
by petition or by information to the
commission
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 suspension
annullment or revocation of its second
class privileges, shall be final and con-
elusive
Proprietors and publishers of newspa-
pers or periodicals may apply to nave
the same placed on a register of the
pcstoff1ce department as being entitled
to second class rates such application
to be verified by the oath Of the aEpli-
cant and accompanied by I ccpy ct the
or PERIODICAL. as well rs a
fee Of IS. Pending final action On the
application he postmaster general is
TO sSue a Temporary FER
nit.