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Show BURLESON'S PLANS ARE TURifl DOWH House Fixes the Postoffice Appropriation Bill to Suit Itself. , WASHINGTON". Jan. 13. Fostofflcs department de-partment recommendations for a zone system sys-tem Increasing postal rates on newspapers news-papers and magazines, for penny postage on local deliveries and for curtailment of the pneumatic tube mail service In cities were stricken out of the annual post-office post-office bill today by the house, sitting as a committee of the whole. It Is expected ex-pected that another vote on the provisions provi-sions will be demanded when the measure mea-sure comes up for passage next week, and If they again are rejected they will be reintroduced in the form of separate bills. The postoffice bill, carrying appropriations appropria-tions of $3:2,000,000, was completed today n committee of the whole, and house leaders expect to pass it Tuesday. Other provisions stricken out Included a SluO -000 appropriation for an experimental airplane air-plane mail service and a proposal for a bonding guaranty system for postal em-P em-P oyees. Repeated efforts to put Into the bill a section authorizing government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines were biocKed by points of order Debate on the pneumatic tube provision deve oped a hitter fight between members or the postofrke committee and representatives repre-sentatives from the cities where tube services now are In operation. An amendment amend-ment restoring authority to continue such services In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Boston and St. Ixjuis finally was adopted by a vote of 152 to 104 |