The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
.s6S,OOo,OOo BOOST
 NPOSTAL RATES
 ASKED BY NEW
Newspaper Men Attack Reconsideration
 Faces Heavy Loss
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Advance1 in postal rates, designed to yield yer! close to the proposed $68,000,0OO 1 year increase in the pay of postal em ployes were suggested to Congress to day by Postmaster General New, They would affect virtually al classes of mail except letter mail. Simultaneous with the transmission of the postmaster generals recommend ati8ns to congress the postal commit tee of the American Newspaper Pub fishers Association attacked the de partmental measure declaring that th' suggested increase of $10,S76,0O0 an nually on second class mail, consist ing entirely of newspapers and period icals, would have the effect of doubling the rates on newspaper circulation go ing through the mails.
 To Reduce Revenue. This action by congress- said { statement from the association, 'wil have the result of reducing the revenue accruing to, the department and abso lutely forbidding the circulation oi newspapers in the mails
 Announcing that his suggestions fol advances were based upon the conclu SlUIl5 dIIltCu Ut Dy thV NOot ooNNA toAAA ment recently submitted to congress Mir. New, in his letter transmitting thu rate proposals to Chairman Sterling of the senate postoffice committee, gave notice that the department was pre- pared "to explain and defend' this cos ! ascertainment if attacked.
 Specifically. the rate advances re- commended would yield $66, 6,390, 75O, di vided as follows:
 Second class mail. newspapers ant periodicals, $10,S76,000; fourth class mail, parcels post, $12,000000; thirC class, circulars and direct mail adver tising, $18,000.000; postcards, $16, 5O0,O00, through increasing the rat' from one cent to one and one-half cent registered letters, $4,O0O,000; money orders, $3,500.000; postal insurance $3. 05S, ,000; collect on delivery, $l, 103, 1000.
 Third Efforts Fail
 Before the Postmaster Generals rec concentrations were transmitted tC Senator Sterling a third effort to fix date for a senate vote on the employe' pay bill, vetoed at the last session by President Coolidge, had failed.
 Senator Edge, republican, New Jer Sey, proposed mat tne measure p' taken up on January $ under an unan imous consent but Senator Reed, dem ocrat, Missouri, objected on the ground that there was an effort to kill the measure at this session by hitchinG it up to the postal increase measure. Details of the various changes in the postal rates proposed by Postmaster General New other than as to post cards previously set forth are as follows:
 Second class matter: No change in reading portion of newspapers, now IF cents a pound.
 No change in reading portion of periodicals classified as scientific agri- cultural, religious, fraternal, etc, not conducted for profit, now l 1-4 cents pound.
 Rate on reading portions of all other publications increased from 1la to Z cents a pound.
 Rates on advertising portions of pub lications now subject to zone rates are increased 2 cents per pound in the first second and third zones, and 1 cent a pound in forth, fifth and sixth zones
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