Show I POSTAL RATES I i AGREED EE UPUN Canada anti the United States Settle Dispute Over Sec Second Second Second ond Class Matter Washington April I At a conference between Postmaster General Lemieux of o Canada and Postmaster General Mayer of United States in this city today toda an agree agreement agreement ment mont was reached to amend the postal convention existing between the two coun I tries In so far as it affects the trans transmission transmission mission of newspapers and periodicals 1 known as second class chars matter between the two countries Canada accepts the tentative proposal of this country count that second clas elas j matter mailed In one coun try tf and nd addressed to the other might be subject to a rate of 1 cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof on each bulk package prepaid by stamps af a I fixed I Under the previous arrangement such sueh I mail mait matter has been transmitted to des desi destination i in either country countI on payment pa ment of the regular second class rate no fiscal settlement being made on account of the i difference in volume of the mail mati On ac account account account count of the very ver large preponderance of or mail matter going from this country to Canada over that received from rom that country the agreement has operated opera ed very verv materially to the advantage advant ge of or un unI I try iry The he Canadian postal administration last November gave notice that after May lay I next the paragraph of or the existing con convention conI convention I relating to the admission of news newspapers newspapers papers and aad periodicals from the United I States to the Canadian mails malls on payment of the 1 cent per pound rate at the of office I flee fice of or origin would be he abrogated but later offered compromises The rate now agreed upon Is 18 substantially the transient second rate which h the tho individual citizen of the Unit United ed Id States now enjoys the exception ex be beIns beIn belog log Ins In that publishers of or the United States have hae an additional privilege of mailing in bulk packages at the rate named sep sop separately ly addressed newspapers and peri periodicals periodicals pen Intended for delivery to subscribers ers era at one and the cost to publishers of or the United States will be beat beat beat at least 50 io per cent less than if the postal union rate should be applied |