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' MTERS.) 



pUinlv shown that the receipt* doubled. . r nearly 

 soTand the lett ; artm.nt 



aoootirl paving for iuelf. 



want* whether in fiUsfN or rural 

 matt. will 







thervceif .rtmmt by giv- 



lopto facilities, if you please, to mail and re- 

 c*Tve their inning a home car. If 



:n it once an hour you will n- v t he 



f pasjmgem that you would get if ton run 

 it ,.nor in half an hour. If you can run it oi 

 half an hour, and yon change to once in ten mm- 



ild in the 

 I I.- will not w 



. i, ..,-.,- their 



I to mail tii- rdingto 



ics) given the m n-av will come. It is 



mn to QQSJU. There is no loss incurred at all by 



the Government. S> long a-* the people want their 



letters cart in this way. let the farming commu- 



*- the tillage* ami t : ....than 10,000 



inhabitant* i. 9] pa\ing for it 



as agreed upon. It is the old penny-; 



thing new aliout it. "That 



penny-port system grew up into free delivery by 

 and by, as you gave the p, ..pie an opportunity to 

 receive and mail their letters in the way convenient 

 to themselves and without loss of time.' Why with- 

 hold .ego from the i ng as they 

 are willing to pay for it. where it docs not ootl the 

 ernment one cent f" 



-sissippi, s 



. *. Mr. Speaker, the proposed bill the 1 

 lation it weeks to enact is nothing but the develop- 

 ment into law of a system which already \i-t- in a 

 part <>f this count T e. d'own in my 



own h--i ippi. there is a 



jK-ople there are several of them, 

 but I have in mind one community who annually 

 postmaster to deliver their mail to a cer- 

 tain person selected by them to receive and deliver 

 it. The carrier gets "the mail from the post office 

 and deposits it in boxes in front of the various plan- 

 . tat ions on his route, and takes from the boxes such 

 mail matter as has been deposited by the planters. 

 or the renter* of the land, and carries it to the p..-t 

 office. So the common sense of a community in 

 this country has already developed a scheme exact- 

 ly that which the gentleman from Connecticut de- 

 sires to put into the shape of law upon our statute 

 books. And. 1n order In avoid the objection of un- 

 doe expense, his bill i.n.vides that these carriers shall 

 be paid by the paOpH whoso mail they deliver. 



_'. that the 



mat cities of this country should have then 

 delivery of mail matter, while the jn-ople living in 

 more sparsely settled communities can not 

 such an advantage. Hut I recognize at the ,;,me 

 Una the ' the free delivery of lett 



sparsely settled localities would bring ab'.ut an a* 

 pfOditurcto the (iovcriimont far U-yond a due pro- 

 portion of the number of letters or mail matter de- 

 livered.and all that: and each of us has practical! v 

 surrendered to the idea that all of the great cities 



^UtCf SOOUld hfive this freede 



and that the citizen of the Tmted states living in 

 Philadelphia, for instance, should have favors *! 

 him by the Government which a citizen living in 



rural district of Kansas does not hate 

 whi ^h -an not U- thnwn to him. I understand that 

 the argument i* alwav* ma-: that, 



that the mail of Philadelphia, for example, j 

 own wav; but that ie, because for every 



letter their send out from Philadelphia a letter is 

 received there from some more sparsely settled sec- 

 tion of the country." 



The Senate passed the mea-niv 1Y1>. -jri. HDT. but 

 then rd of its appro val by the President. 



Much greater niieivM \\.-is >hown in what is called 



the Loud lull " to amend the postal law s ivlat in;: t o 



..i-dav mail matter." It \\a- taken up in the 



1 . debated <>n various oct .1 



with . : pa.s-cd -Ian.!'.. 1MI7. in the fol- 



lowing f'Tin : 



.. Thai mailablc matter of the 



second class shall embrace all IM-U -|,;ip.-r- ; ,nd 

 other .1 |iublication> which are i--ued at 



stated intervals and as fre<|uently a> four t, 

 thin the conditions named n 

 : tiiis act : thing 



-.contained shall he so construed as to admit 

 to the second-class rate publication-, purporti! 

 be issued periodically an>: nit which 



are merely book-, or reprints of bo.,k-. w hether they 

 be issued complete or in part-, whether they be 

 bound or unbound, whether they he sold by "sub- 

 script ion or otherwise, or whether they purport i 

 be premiums or supplements r | 



That publicatii-ns of the MO 1 <-la- 



M proviilcd in section 'J."i ( ,f the aet o| Ma 1 



when sent by the publisher thereof, and from 

 the office of pubficatioii. excluding sample 

 or when -ent from a news agency to actual siib- 

 -ciiber- thereto, or toother news air'-nt-. shall le 

 entitled to tran-mis-ion t hroiigh the mails at I cent 

 a pound or fraction thereof, such postage to I" 

 paid as now provided by law: /'/-, ////,- 



?, That news agents shall not 1x3 allowed to 

 return to news agents or publisher- at the pound 

 rate unsold periodical publications, but shall pay 

 postage on tne same at the rate of 1 cent for 4 



>i. ::. That all periodical publications regularly 

 i from a known place of publication at state.) 

 intervals as frequently as four times a ;> 

 under the auspices of benevolent or fraternal 

 ties, trades unions, or orders organi/ed und- 

 lodge system, and having a bona fnl< membership 

 of not less than 1,000 persons, shall be entitled to 

 the privilege of second-class mail matter: I'mr, <!,<!, 

 That such matter shall be originated and published 

 to further the objects and purposes of such s- 

 or order. 



"SEC. 4. That the conditions upon which n publi- 

 cation shall be admitted to the second class.. 

 follow- : 



"1. It must regularly be issued at stated inter- 

 vals as frequently as foiir times a year, bear a 

 of issue, and be numbered oooaecvtn 



It must be i ued from a k now n oilicc of publi- 

 cation, which shall l>c, shown bv the publication 



itself 



It must be formed of printed pat 

 without board, cloth, leather, or other substantial 

 binding, such as distinguish printed books for pres- 

 ion from periodical publicati 



It HUM be originated and published for tin- 

 dissemination of information of a public chai 

 or devoted to literature, the scicnc. 

 special industry, and inu-t have a legitimate li-t of 

 subscribers who voluntarily order and pay for the 

 same: I'rnml,,!. That nothing herein contained 

 shall be so const rued a- toadmit to tin- -econd-da-s 

 rate regular publications, or any particular i<-ue of 

 any regular publication, designed primaril 

 advertising purposes, or for free circulation, or for 

 circulation at nominal rat.-: A,,, I That 



all extra numbers of second -r -lass publicatiot 

 by the publishers thereof, acting as the agent of an 

 advertiser or nurcha-er. to address e- furnished by 

 the latter, shall be subject to pay postage at the, 

 rate of 1 cent for every 4 ounces or fraction there- 



