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Show -oo m HIES G81E 1ST LUTE NEW YORK, Dec. 2C. Postmaster General Hitchcock intends to extern', the practice of carrying second-class mall by fast freight trains. He so stated in an answer filed today In tho United States circuit court In the case j of tho Review of Reviews company, who complained oT discriminations because be-cause its magazines were carried by freight instend of passenger mail through the middle west. The postmaster general says the government lost 7 cents a pound on all second-class matter transported from Now York to the Pacific cont by mail trains In 1907-1008, but that slnco early this year, when tho fast freight rule was enforced on certain iwribdlcals Issued at intervals of a week or more, a saving of $1,400,000 has beep made. . By extending the rule- to apply beyond be-yond tho so-called third central division, di-vision, the saving. It Is said, will be increased to $3,000,000. oo |