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Show CHANGES MADE IN RATES OF POSTAGE "WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. The amendment amend-ment to the war revenue bill, adopted by the senate finance committees, providing for new second-class postage rates after July 1 next, mada fifty miles instead of '20o miles, tho limit for the old 1-cent per pound rate, with "P4 cents a pound applying beyond the fifty-mile area. When the commission yesterday adopted adopt-ed an amendment repealing the present second-class zone syttem and substituting substitut-ing that for 1 and lVs cents, respectively, Chairman Simmons and other members announced that the 1-cent rate would ap- j ply within a radius of 200 miles from mailing points. The amendment actually actu-ally adopted and now incorporated In the bill, however, provides that the 1-cent rate is applicable only within the fourth-class fourth-class parcel zone, which is but fifty miles. Senators said today they understood this zone was 2)0 miles and some correction j to meet the general understanding may be made later. |