Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-11-29 | Page 1 | Bill Cuts Rates in Postage

BILL CUTS RATES It POSTAGE Chan g'J in Second CI ass , Effective Upon Enactment; Enact-ment; First Class Is to Come Down July 1st By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. Repeal of 1 he iin'rVHSfd postage Te was appfrovptl today to-day by tlie ttenatr finance ooiu ; mittee. Amendments to the war revenue bill were adopted to abnlinh j th xone increase on second class rstes with a prov'so that the rale nhall be 1 rent per pound beyond a ! 200-ml;e radius and also for repeal of j the extra cent per, ounce postage on! letters. ' " The committee also ordered into theJ bill the so called child 1hIht amend-i amend-i ment. It wii offered by Henator IamIh J ; aid provides for a 1 per cent tax on Tnecbange in second class pot-tare, j I finder the committee's smemlment. j j would become effective iiKn enact-j ment ft the bill, while that reduciws; I j f Irsi class postage rates would le ef- feetlve July 1 next. j The amendment reducing second class mail rates, offered hy Kenator ' tSmooi of I'tah, Repuhtlran. pritirtji ! I that( upon ennctm',nt of tlie hill ibe 1 ' exim'tnn xone .syMtem. whirh munv ' puhltHhen. pMrt)culiirlv thorus of ! maRMKine!, have HttafVd aa unjuM, I would be ahliehed. and that there- ' after the second la rate shall be ! at the old scale of I rent per xund . j within a radius of -'00 milea from I matliQgS points and 1 rents per ! f pound outside the ?00-mil znnn The ; amendment. It was atated, is deHipned j I to meet the nenerMl demre of new. ! paper publiHbers for a 1mr rate with- j : i.i their principal -ditrihtrilon nrnn and ulfto to make more eiiha)ile tlie ' eerond class rates outside of the ''.'0t-: ''.'0t-: mle limit. .