The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-03
WASHINGTON.
special Dispatches to the Eoeamg Telegraph.
Trade with Canads

Trade with Can0da.
The Committee OF Ways and Means will, early
nest week, make an cGo4t to pass the bill regu-
lat.ng t.ade with the British NorsA American
provinces, in view ofthe fact that the Recipro-
city treaty VIII expire on the l7th instant, by its
own Limitation.
The House win then be asked to resume the
consideration OF the Loan bill.
Evidence for the RecOnsGrOctIoR Com
E0tttae.
Maior-Ceneral B. H. G.ierson, who made the
first successful raid through Mississippi and
Louisiana arrived here This morning, having
been summoned to appear before the Recon
stiuctioo Committee
THO Tennessee Reprasect tAtiVes to be
A0m1STtd.
The Reconstruction Committee, it is expected,
Will on Monday report in favor OF admitting
loyal Tennc21ceans, and to at once circulate their
evidence showing the dsloyal condition of the
o'heT Southern States.
The Virginia Press.
In order to put peremptoiy sop TO the trcs-
sonable us:crances of the Virginia press, stll
persisted in, The commanding officer of the De-
partment of Virginia has igsued an order requir.
ing al the publishers of newspapers in the State
to send copy OF every issue to his hcadqucr-
lSiSf Wy hluli, OA AuC WY VI puDllCIIOEs
Werk an the PemstOM Bureau.
During the month of February, 1917 inva,ids,
and 22l6 widows claims were admitted by the
Pension Bureau of the Interior Department. As
an evidence of the business done by the Office, it
may be stated that 29,3O2 letters and circulars
were forwarded duling the same period by the
Pension Ofice.
Sale of War Materials.
;a etit
sums from the sale OF unnecessary war mate
rails. During the last two days large quantities
of medicines have been disposed of, and on
Thursday next, $4,000 articles of clothing will
he sod, together with a large number OF Gov
e-lmept buildings.
Sanitary Commission Claim Agency.
The cash value OF sodiero' certificates, checks,
and currency received by the United States
Sanitary Commission Army and Navy Claim
Agency, of this city, duTing the month Of Feb.
ruary last, amounted to $l26os5. OF this
amsunt, $G0,671 were collected on widows, inva-
&c, and naval pensions, the remainder, consist.
,ngl of prize money, naval arrears, bounty end
q. roar5 Of deceased and discharged soldiers.
Spanish ana Peruvian Prizes.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day Issued
the following circular to customs officers relative
to Spanish and Peruvian pr!Zes:-
TREAsURY[Dr2ARTMENT. March 2.--It he's been
officially announced to this Government that
hostilitieS between Spain and Peru have been
resumed. 1t is possible that during the con.
tiTE Eanoe of such hoStilities attempts may be
made TO tIinS into United States POI 3 prizes
ia Ken from one OF the parties by the war vessels
OF the other. Customs officers will use diligence
to prevent the entrance of such vessels into
their respective districts, excepting when, as
vessels in distress, they come within the provi-
sjors of the Goth section of the act of March g.
1889, entitled San ect 70 Regulate the Collection
OF Duties on Imports and TonnG~e,n in which
cese the provisions OF that section must be
strictly enforced. Collectors will direct the
commanding officers OF the revenue cutters In
tler respective districts TO warn all vessels OF
either belligerent that they may find endeavor-
iIg to enter the ports of the Unitod States with
prizes, or captures IN charge OF prize crews that
tley are not permitted so to do, except when
they seek port OF refuge in distress; and, in
tbs case, the Collectors will promptly notify the
department. OF the fact OF such arrival, and the
circumstances attending the same.
II. MoCU1LoCH, Secretary of the Treasury.