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Show rl ONE GEHT LESS ' . PROVIDED FOR Ifl D RULES Annual Appropriation Bill for Postal Department Outlines Some Radical Radi-cal Changes. ZONE SYSTEM FOR SOME PERIODICALS Measure Carries Items To-t To-t taling $327,000,000; Goes to House This Week. WASHINGTON, . Dec, 9. One-cent postage for local first class mail deliveries, de-liveries, and a zone system of rates for second class matter, which is expected greatly to increase the charges for magazines mag-azines and other periodicals having a nation-wide circulation, are provided for in the annual postoflice appropriation bill as virtually completed today . in committee. The measure, carrying appropriations ap-propriations totaling about $327,000,000, probably will be reported to the, house next week. Under the 1-cent postage provision the rate on letters and other mail matter mat-ter of the firts class, when deposited in any postoflice or branch postoflice or letter box or postoflice in the delivery r district, for delivery within the limits of the postoflice, city or rural delivery district, would be cut hi half. Radical Change. The zone proposal for handling newspapers news-papers and magazines, which now pay a flat rate of 1 cent a pound, is regarded as one of the most radical changes in postage rates in years. It divides the , country into eight zones, with rates ' 'chargeable ranging from 1 cent for 300 miles to b" cents for 1800 miles or more. The bulk of daily newspapers, the committee com-mittee believes, will not be affected, because be-cause they do not circulate beyond a 300-mile radius. The bill provides: . That all newspapers, magazines L ml and other publications regularly ad-niitted ad-niitted to the mails as matter of the it second class, when mailed by tire publisher, shall hereafter be subject to the following rates of postage, the zone system now applying to parcel post matter to be adapted 'f also to second class matter. , Zones Defined. Local, firsts second and third zone (under 300 miles) 1 cent per pound. Fourth zone (300 to 600 miles) 2 cents per pound. Fifth zone (600 to 1000 miles) 3 cents per pound. Sixth zone (1000 to 1400 miles) 4 cents a pound. Seventh zone (1400 to 1S00 miles) 5 cents a pound. Eighth zone (over 1800 miles) 6 cents a pound. Provided that f ree-in-county circulation cir-culation provided by law shall continue con-tinue as at present. The postmaster general shall have authority to require publishers to separate their mail into zones when offered for mailing. Among -.other provisions the bill increases in-creases rates for mail order catalogues; from 2 to 8 cents a pound, making them i third class matter, instead of parcels : post; raises the limitations on promo-j lions of clerks and carries in first and : second class postoffices; broadens the ; postmaster general 's authority to deal ; with lotteries, drugs and poisons, and increases the rural delivery appropriation appropri-ation by $4,000,000 over the $49,000,-000 $49,000,-000 recommended by Assistant Postmaster Postmas-ter General Blakslee. Chairman Moon of the postoffice committee com-mittee said tonight that the bill still j was subject to change before being re- J ported, and that the question of hear-1 ings on the proposed pneumatic tube j service appropriation was in abeyance. |