Milford chronicle., 1926-07-30

cooperative plan; and of the fifteen
Democrats only nine (Ashurst, Brat
ton, Caraway, Hefin, Jones Of New
Mexico, McKellar, Mayfeld, Simmons
and Tyson) are from the South.
Twenty-one Democratic senators
voted against the McNary-Haugen
amendment, and fifteen of them are
from the South. They are: Blease,
Broussard, George, Glass, Harris,
Harrison, Ransdell, Reed of Mis-
souri,, Robinson of Arkansas, Shep-
pard, Smith, Stephens, Swanson,
Trammell and Underwood.
SeS
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(From National Editorial Association)
Especial to Chroniele)
Washington, July 2S-"No decision
has been reached" with regard to
postal legislation at the next regular
session of Congress which opens on
the first Monday in December, we
were informed this week at the Post
Office Department.
Some department officials frankly
admitted they favor the "try-out per-
iod" for the prevailing make-shift
second class rates being extended to
three years at least from the time
the existing "stop-gap" postal law
became effective on April Is, 1925.
Among close observers of the pos
tai situation at Washington the opin-
ion is becoming general that unless
the publishing interests exert
stronger pressure upon the joint
Congressional postal committee,
which is dominated by Senator Geo.
H. Moses, of New Hampshire, chair
man of the Senate Post Office Com
mittee, and Congressman William w.
Griost, chairman of the House Post
Office Committee, any move for a re-
duction in second class rates at the
"short session, lasting from Decem-
ber until March may prove as fruit
less as during the late session.
The privately circulated Kiplinger
Washington letter carried this signi-
ficant statement this week:
Groups wanting postal rate re-
duction are being given official as
surance that "a postal bill will be
brought up next session. and (sic)
they are accepting this as promise /
that it will be passed. The feeling of |
those who pretend to know the pos
tai situation here is that the session ,
will be too short and the difference |
of aim of the various groups too di-
vergent, to make possible any effec-
tive general rate reduction. The pri-
vate comment emanating from the |
Post Office Department is to the eff
feet that the present rates will have
to be retained for two years yet"
All Of our information from other
reliable Washington channels is
along the same line. Without wish
ing to appear to attach too much i'm
portance to the continued opposition
of the Post Office Department to a
lowering of second class rates, we
desire to emphasize again the inad-
of senators and congress-
men being permitted to forget, es-
pecially in the midst of the present
Congressional campaign, the just de-
mand for the enactment of legisla-
tion in which the publishing inter-
ests are vitality interested. The fate
Of those demands at the last session
need only be recalled to visualize
what may happen if the Post Office
Department, as well as the joint
postal committee, is
permitted to ride rough shod over
hem again at the next session. Even
Turing these hot summer days the
interests should, in our
Judgment, remain alive to the possi- ,
)ilities of the situation created by
he "do-nothing" policy adopted by
Mr.. Moses and Mr.. Griest with re-
pect to postal legislation.
Fresh emphasis upon the continu-
Ition of the Post Office Department ,
n the envelope printing business
vas provided this week by the fol-
owing statement issued by the Post
master General with reference to the
envelope factory in Dayton, Ohio" .
eeming to us to be especially inter-
sting:
POSTMASTER General New today =,
nnounced the prospective issuance
f a new 2-cent embossed stamped ;
nvelope to commemorate the Ses-
anniversary of Amer
,an independence. The envelope is
eing issued in connection with the
esqui-centennial Exposition in Phil
Pa, the stamp being print
d in red on extra-quality paper.
The stamp on the envelope is an
pright rectangle in shape, about 1 r
IS by 1916 inches in size. The CEN
raj design is an embossed Liberty =
ell partly surrounded by a wreath
18th the figures "1776" and 1926"
n either side. Above the central de-
ign appear the words UNITED States