Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-16
RATE INCREASE
OF $68,OOO, 600 A YEAR
URGED UPON CONGRESS
Postmaster New Would Inc ude All Glasses Except Let
ter Mail! to Provide Add itona Revenue to Meet
Proposed Advance in Salaries for Employees

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Ad-
vances in postal rates, designed to
yield very close to the proposed
$6S, 10000 a year increase in the
pay of postal employees, were sug-
gested to congress today by Post
ma ster General New.
They would affect virtually all
classes of mail except letter mail
simultaneously with the transmits
sion of the postmaster generals rec
concentrations to congress, the pos
tai committee of the American
Newspaper Publishers association
attacked the departmental measure,
declaring the suggested increase Of
$10.S7G, 600 annually on second class
mail consisting entirely of neWspa-
pers and periodicals, would have the
effect of doubling the rates on news
paper circulation going through the
mails.
This action by congress-" said a
statement from the association, will
have the double result Of reducing
the revenues accruing to the de-
partment and absolutely fOrbidding
the circulation of daily newspapers
in the mails
New Defends Increases
Announcing that his suggestions
for advances were based upon the
conclusions arrived at by the cost
ascertainment recently submitted TO
congress. Mr.. New in his letter
transmitting the rate proposals to
Chairman Sterling, of the senate
postoffice committee, gave notice
that the department was prepared
to explain and defend" this cost
aSCertajnment if attacked.
Specifically, the rate advances rec
commended would yield SOS ,390,150 di-
vided as follows:
Second class mail, newspapers and
periodicals, $l0,S7G,000.
Fourth class mail, parcels post,
$12 900 900
Third class, circulars and direct
mail advertising, $4,000 600.
Postcards, 12,500,00O, through in
creasng the rate from one cent to
one and one-half cents.
Registered letters, $4,000, 900
Money orders, So, 500 600.
Postal insurance, 3,05S,000.
Collect on delivery, $1,103 900.
Salary Bill Sidetraclicd
Before the postmaster general S
recommendations were transmitted
to Senator Sterling, third effort
to fix a date for a senate vote on
the employees pay bill, vetoed at the
last session by President Coolidge,
had failed.
Jersey, proposed that the measure
be taken up on January 8 under
unanimous consent but Senator
70, Il
on the grounds that there was an
session by hitching up to it the pos
tai rate increase measure.
The New Jersey senator, who has
had charge of the pay bill subse-
quentlY announced in formal state
isment that he had washed his hands
of the matter and it now was up
to those friendly to the bill, but who
have opposed unanimous consent
agreements to lead the fight.
Meantime. the vetoed bill retained
its status of a highly privileged com
municatIOn, resting on the senate Ia
bic but not subject to, cOnsidera-
ton because of the intervening unan-
imOus consent arrangement for final
action on both the Muscle Shoals
bill and the Isle of Pines treaty.
Details of Changes
Details of the various changes in
postal rates proposed by Postmaster
General New other than as to post
cards, previously set forth, are as
follows:
Seemed class matter
No change in reading portion Of
newspapers, now l 1-2c a pound.
No change in reading portion of
periodicals classified as scientific. ag-
ricultural, religious. fraternaL etc.
not conducted for profit, now l 1-1C
a pound.
Rate on reading portions of all 9TH
err publications increased from / IL
to , cents pound.
Rates on advertising portions Of
publications now subject to zone
rates are increased > cents per pound
in the first, second and third zones
and 1 cent a pound in fourth. fifth
and sixth zones No increase in
seventh and eighth zones
Rates on advertising portions of
publications now subject to zone
rates will apply to advertising por-
tons of all publications. except
where advertising matter is per
cent or less of total printed space.
Recommendation that any publish
or or registered news agent may elect
to mail d portion or all of the issues
of any publications entered as sec
ond class mail under the rates rec
commended for fourth class. or parcel
post, matter such rates to be ap-
pl!cable to each piece for each adj
dressee. This viii enable publishers
and registered news agents to ship
large bundles of second class mat
ter to a single addressee at parcel
post rates.
Rates on transient second class
matter are changed from 1 cent for
four ounces TO i cents for each
two ounces. up 20 and not exceeding
eight ounces and parcel pos. rates
TO apply to weights above eight
ounces.
Weight Limit Changed
Third class matter;
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