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Show EFFECT CHANGE IN WORLD MAILS I American Republics Oppose Higher Postal Rates Asked Ask-ed By Europe MADRID. Oct. 10. (By the Asso. elated Press. 1 Changes of sweeping! Imporlanr-e In the postal relations of I the world w ill be effected i a result of the deliberations of the interna-ItOnal interna-ItOnal postal union congress dnting the past week. Sevcrul committees al-ready al-ready have drafted thir reports. 1 Th.-se must be submitted 10 the full general committee and thereafter to the whole congress for final approval, but they arc virtually certain of acceptance. accep-tance. t il ;us Hioi'tM i The notable Items upon w hich the . committees reporteri favorably are Establishment of international payments pay-ments for the transit of malls on 1 gold dollar basis. The fixing of increased mtxlmuio rat for postage on International mail., but with the proviso lhat the United states ami other countrf may rei.un the present rates or fi their rales according to their own ideas as long as they do not exceed the maximum Cepted by the Union. In future congresses only parent countries will have voting powers, col- I onies being excluded from Voting although al-though they may sfnd delegates, iVeatlon of a pan-American postal union. kHERICAXS DISAGREE. The eastern ond western honils-pheres honils-pheres were sharply divided on the, fiie.stion of an in. reasp In intimation-1 al postal rates, the Americans oppos-i Ing augmentation on the ground that such a measure vvas calculated to Injure In-jure commercial interests greatly and I was unnecessary for revenue purposes. The new maximum rate had not yet beaft fixed definitely but the United I States and La tin-American countrl.--deelared dearly they would not agree to any increase. The committee, seeing see-ing their firm stand finally accepted! the position lhat the western hemls-phere hemls-phere Could fix is own rates If- they J did not exceed the maximum eventually eventu-ally adopted by the Union P - VMERICAS i l The representatives of the republics of the western hemisphere With the exception of Venezuela, whose delegate has not yet arrived, nominated an executive committee for .the creation of a Pan -American postal federation to Include every republic on the west-1 ern side of the Atlantic. The new organization will begin its functions atier me congress at ouenos Aires In August. 1921. An innovation in the congress was the presence of a woman dt legate,MlSS Ellzabeih 1 Woods, who. without v. it-ing it-ing power, represented the United Slates Jointly with Second Assistant Postmaster General Praeger, and s m Weber, assistant superintendent of r..i elgtj mails |