The Washington herald., 1911-02-10
MAGAZINE POSTAGE
RATE Is ADVANCED
Advertising Sections Must
Pay Four Cents a Pound.
MORE PAY FOR POSTAL CLERKS
Fifty thousand Dollars Authorized
to Experiment with Parcels Post.
Days Annual Leave-Distrfct to Get
Postal Savings DeDository.

The Senate Committee. on Post-omces
and Post Roads yesterday voted. s
to 2, to raise the rate of postage on
advertising sections of magazines from
cent per pound to cents per pound
proviso is added. however. that this
increased rate shall not apply to publi-
cations mailing less than 1000 pounds OF
each issue. The increased rate does not
apply to the reading matter sections Of
the magazines. The present rate OF
cent per pound will continue to carry
reading matter through the mails.
Senator Penrose. chairman of the Com
mittee on Post-offices and Post Roads.
reported the post-ofiice appropriation bill
to the Senate and announced that he
would call up the bill for consideration
at the earliest convenient opportunity
next week.
Senators Bourne and Owen cast the two
votes in opposition to reporting the
amendment.
Study Parcels Post.
The committee also authorized an ex-
penditure Of $4,000 under the authority of
the Postmaster General to experiment
with parcels post and ascertain what IL
the lowest rate at which the government
can carry articles Weighing not less than
eleven pounds.
The committee also increased the an
nual leave that may be allowed to en-
poyes in first and second class offices to
thirty days.
A provision which was added to the
bill allows extra pay to city letter car
riers who work in excess of fOrty-eight
hours during six working days Of the
week.
The appropriation for railway post
office pay car was fixed at $5,O1O.O00. but
requires that the cars shall be equipped
with sanitary drinking water containers,
and that all cars hereafter leased shall
be of steel construction, and that no
wooden mail car now in use under con-
tract shall be continued IL run between
cars of steel construction.
Allowance for Expen&es.
The Postmaster General is authorized
to pay to railway postal clerks an al
lowance not exceeding 81 per day for
travel expenses where such clerks are
cars and have actually expended money
necessarily while on duty after eight
hours from the time of beginning their
initial run
Thirty days annual vacation. with pay.
is allowed to railway mail clerks whose
duties require them to work six days or
more a week throughout the year.
The provision put into the bill by the
House committee relating to improved
postal facilities in New York City was
not amended by the Senate.
An amendment was added increasing
the pay of rural letter carriers as fol-
lows: One thousand dollars on a route
of not less than a miles and a proper
tionate amount on a route less than "a
miles from tirst-class office: S915 year
on route not less than "a miles and
proportionate amount on a route less
than 81 miles from a second-class office:
$3.50 a year on a route not less than "A
miles and a proportionate amount on a
route less than "A miles from a third ,
class office.
The bill carries an appropriation of
SS0.0 to enable the Postmaster General
TO extend the postal savings repositories. !
of which $4,000 is made available for a |
central office of the system in the Dis
trict of Columbia. |