The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-31
CHANGE IN POSTAL LAW.
Recommended by Joint Postal Conn
mission OF Congress.

mission OF Congress.
wash,npton,-The report OF tho
toint postal commission authoriAe4
with the last session OF Congress 70
investigate and report to that BODY lts
conclusions on the operation ana o.
feet of the existing laws relative To
secoud.class mail matter, and what
changes, IL any. should be made, nas
been made public. The commission
makes a number OF sweeping recon
mendations looking to reform IN the
postal service, and has drafted meas
ure embodying such changes as II
thinks ought to be made.
Among the most important aduitiohs
TO existing law as REGARDS seconu'
class mail matter embodied IN ehis
measure, are the following:
"A newspaper or other periooica!
may be in part composed OF adVeruse'
meuts which are permanently IN
serted in, or attached to. put snch au'
yertisements shall not constitute more
than fifty per centum OF the supernciai
area of any issue OF the publicatloh;
nor shall any advertisement be printeu
on card, cloth or any substance o'hei
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 par,s
nr sections, but all such parts or sec
tions shall be made OF the same SIZE
form and weight of paper. and shall,
.fl,
plete and identitiable whole. All pro-
Visions of law applicable to a newspa-
per or periodical SHAH apply equaiiy 10
each and every section thereon
with regular issue of Gewspa
per or other periodical. the supple
ment may be enclosed or folded. Ihe
supplements shall not be printed on
other substance than paper, except In
the case of maps and plans illus
tratiye of the text, which may be OF
different form from the main body OF
the publication. No supplement shall
be composed Of or contain advertise
mcnts. 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 Is
sue of the publication"
The proposed law refuses the second
class rate to periodical 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 post
age samples of such issue. but not 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 sworn state
ment of such issue required to be sub
mitted to the postmaster at the ofhce
o. mailing.
The appointment Of postal appeals
commission in the Postoffice Depart
ment is provided for to consist of three
members, at least one of whom shall
be person who has had actual expert
ence in the conduct of the publishing
| business, and at least one of whom
| shall be learned in the law and mem
ber 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 1st
| next.
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 1t, and
which commission shall hear, consider
and determine such appeal with re-
spect as well to matters of fact as to
| matters of law.