Show PARCEL POST PACKED ON FREIGHT WAGONS WAGON four horse teams pulling cheav loads mail matter parcel post has been arriving in vernal by the four horse load in regular uintah railway hallway company f freight wagon not the old time stage coaches but the wide tire fi eight wagons if the bulk of mail matter continues to increase as it has since the DO 0 pound package was admitted the cai canlers i aers will be swamped the uintah people and the Duch ducheane ebne people are losing big money but they lose it without a mur mer they know what they are up against and they ai aie e going through with it but never again for them unless radical changes are made the companies railroad and stage all of whom are losing mone money every day hope that uncle sam will reimburse them there has been a hard fight on at washington to pi event a f urther further increase in the weight of parcels but according to news aiom that city the fighters have failed A dispatch of recent date says all attempts to limit the r authority of the postmaster general to change the weight rates or zones in the parcel post service were defeated in the senate during consideration tion of the postoffice post office appio bill an amendment to the bill 4 an it passed the douse house proposed by the senate ilice fice committee to prevent the postmaster general t strom om malt mak ing these changes 5 aks s de defeat fe at fed 33 to 24 thea cheit senator bankhead challmah of the continued on vise page 2 PAR PARCEL CEli POST 11 ON rit EIGHT WAGO INS continued from page 1 committee sought to forestall it a proposed pio posed increase in maximum weight of packages package 4 to pounds by an amendment providing pio viding that postal funds should not bo be used to transport trans packages par bages of more than go CO pounds this wits was defeated by ono one vote the roll call standing 28 to 2 27 7 when senator Bank bankhead licad asked tor for a limitation of 50 pounds for packages on star loutes senator blaik of wyoming who had fought for the oil ginal committee amendment asserted this would be an unjustifiable discrimination against rural patrons the amendment was voted down 31 to 18 senator blaik attacked a provision of tile tho bill gi giantini 2000 to the legal natives or of specified employees of tile the lee bel vice killed while on duty and succeeded in haning 1 ing uti from tile the list certain employees not engaged in the bail i ailway service ile he said if the bill as presented ted was passed tile the government would have to insure tile the lives of employees in eveia other department of tile the nolvice sol vice while the maicel post law has ben been generally od ed to early cany within its giovis clovi ions of cheaper rates to the users of all commodities fiant tile the needle to the anchal anc lioi it a flaw dim has been found hidden lit in section R G of the postal act tho the flaw in its way becomes it a conundrum which it is hinted can only be answered by some home eastlin folks out of the mass of stuffs and pio to ducts which ate given rates arid and accepted tor for do delivery livery thi through ough the parcel post seeds cuttings bulbs roots scions and plants are pur bosly omitted from the benefit under the law an ashley valley fanner may fidei bioni a salt lake firm 50 pounds of cot coin n f foi oi feeding purposes lie ile can an get that coin delivered for 64 cents it if however ile ho ciders the coin for seed purposes it will cost him 4 for postage dundei the parcel post law the postage rato rate on seeds etc remains as feimer ly one cent fol foi ench each two ounces and ot of distance lit in words tile the ashley valley farmer could obtain from a now yolk deal ei ci seeds as cheaply as legarda postage as from a salt lake lae deabi A seed company took up tip this differential with the post ui aister general some time ago but not receiving a cepl has placed the matter president wilson tit in a letter as follows haning hang noted you houi disposition to correct some ot oi tho the ills affecting the common people we ne nie aie ino to bring to houi attention the parcel post law hm for some beason un unknown knoll to us Is this thie law in was as not made to apply on seeds plants and bulbs articles ill tides in which eveia tiller of the soil Is interested and which we think they be able to obtain under favorably favora bk bates of postage as other othar we understand dundei stand the parcel post law was foamed to enable all consumers not only to have their supplies more economically no carried but at the I 1 same time to purchase neater neati home to illustrate how the seed freed dealer and nursery man Is bisci imitated against again gt wo submit the following Fari farmei nei jones located a 11 few miles north of salt lake city places nn an cordei with ua its for 50 pounds of white navy beans for seed pui purposes poses altie 2 50 by reason of the fact that they tire are for planting under tinder the existing seed late the postage would be q I 1 farmer blown orders 60 pounds pound of the same lot of leans beans for cooking purposes the postage in ili this case would be 54 cents a discrimination mi ini nation of 3 46 tho the same condition applies with equal force to many otell items in our line we believe the parcel post latea of postage should obtain on seeds plants and bulbs arid and to that end we ise ask your operation cooperation co As the seeding season is fast approaching it la is quito quite important that this mablei lill should prompt con aldei atlon oth otherwise elwise the planters will bo be unjustly ds dis against agai t dining an other season |