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Show UNIFORM POSTAGE RATE IS REJECTED -c - : - ROME, May 2. The committee of the International Postal convention, in session her, has rejected the proposal of the delegate del-egate from New Zealand for the. establishment estab-lishment of a universal two-cent postage rati The, proposition was submitted only by the delegates of Egypt and the United States. A motion of the Japanese to reduce re-duce international postage rates to four cents was rejected by a majority of three. ; Arthur Bingham Wakely of Great Britain Brit-ain I had presented the same proposition which was abandoned, and instead he firoposed to maintain the present rate of nternational postage, but establishing after aft-er the first 15 gramma a scale of two cents for every 15 gramms, .which was adopted by a majority of one. |