In their report the commissioners very frankly admit the meagerness, or, on numerous important points, total lack of informative data. But, as the President states, they proceed to put on record a finding of 6 cents a pound as the cost of handling and transporting paid second-class matter and 5 cents a pound as the cost of similar service on free-in-county matter, for the year 1908. They finally recommend, however, that the present “transient” rate (for copies of periodicals mailed by other than publishers) be continued--1 cent for each 4 ounces; also that the present free-in-county privilege be retained, _but not extended_. What does that “not extended” mean? I do not know. Do you? Does it mean that the country newspapers now issued--_now_ entered in Postoffice Department for free haulage and handling--shall continue free and that no new newspapers established, founded and distributed in counties, shall be transported and handled _free_? If it does not mean that, what does it mean? If it means that, then why does this Commission recommend a thing that is primarily--_elementary_--wrong under the organic law of this government? The Constitution of these United States _specifically_ prohibits “special” legislation. Then why, I ask, should the recommendation of this Commission be complied with? I have been publishing _The Hustler_, a _controlled_ Republican or Democrat 4 to 8 pager, as the case may be, for four years. Paul Jones comes along and flings in his money to publish and print the _Democratic Booster_ in the same county. Does this Commission mean to recommend that _The Hustler_ be carried and distributed free in the county and that _The Booster_ be required to pay the regular pound rate for the same service? A flat rate of 2 cents per pound is recommended for all other periodical matter, newspapers and magazines alike. Well, that recommended rate is of course, better than Mr. Hitchcock’s “rider” recommendation, discussed in a previous page. The Commission’s “finding” that the cost of carriage, handling and delivery of second-class mail “was approximately 6 cents a pound” is also an appreciable step-down (toward the facts), as compared with Mr. Hitchcock’s _assured_--milled, screened and sifted--finding that said cost was 9.23 cents a pound--a finding as late as March 1, 1911. So if this commendable “merger” of views, opinions and _guesses_ keeps growing, as industrial, rail and other mergers are wont to grow, the postal _rate payers_ of the country may hope yet to find that even their great men may agree.