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WASHINGTON. Friday. Dee. 81, 1902
bill for tie admission Of Virginia mas been prepared
by member OF the Reconstruction Committee which IL
is expected will meet the views OF tho majority OF
the Committee, as Il is compromise between tho
two extremes IL provides that the Legislature shah
meet and the members take the test oath-or rrnaton
of the Fourteenth Amendment. not the "iron.clad
oath" Then the Legislature sha by solemn enactment
declare that the present constitution shah not he
changed so as TO deprive the cOored people Of the right
TO VOTE hold Office, sit juries and their share IN
the school fund. On these fundamental conditions she
shall be admitted to represCn tation In Congress-
1t has been discovered, from the experiences OF tic
Supreme Court judges, that the judicial circuits as
present organized unequal in the
which they produce for adjustment by Justices Tbs
Pennsylvania Circuit, for example, furnishes very liz le
business as at present organized. while others snpy
more than can be done The Southern Circn IN
quence OF the large amount OF business arising Of
the war, brings forward more business than aug
other circuits III View OF these facts prominent
Der OF the Judiciary Committee Of the House VIII present
bill proposing reassignment Of States the circuits
follows: First Observation-Disclosures, Rhode Island
New-Hampshire, Vermont, and Mane second-New.
York. Connecticut and New,Ierse7i Thrd-Pennsy.ya.
mia, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Car, a
Fourth-Arkansas Mississippi, Louisiana, aud Texas;
Fifth-south Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama, aud
Tennessee; sxth-ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and
Kentucky; seventh-Indiana Illinois. and Wisconsin,
Eighth-MnnesOta, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas AMI Ms
sour; Ninth-CaHfornia, Oregon and Nevada.
The following is the letter Of Gen. Terrell, Third
Assistant Postmaster General to Postmaster Jones,
authorizing him to seize the malls Of svindlns lms in
NewYOrk;
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT TIE THIRD ASSISTANT.
POsTMAsTER-GENERAL, WAsIIINGTON, ID. &.
GEN. PATRICK II. JONES, Postmaster, Ae,r J OTk:
SIR: have the honor to acknowledge the receipt OF
your letter. and, after consulting the Postmaster.
Send all letters addressed Wogan x 60, and 10 all
other swindng, fictitious firms, to the Dead Letter
the responsibility IN all which you may Dc
satisfied Of the above class" II is the determine
control break up these swindlng concerns, which
largely the facilities afforded by the mails To prey
be made at early day to secure suca Congressional
action Will enable the Department more efcctually to
accomplish the desired result In the meantime, you
will exercise your best Judgment in for wurdns matter
to the Dead Letter ONCE which you 91e Te;i ,
sent that ought to have been delivered the mistake Will
be promptly corrected here, and the matter will AZ
once be forwarded to the proper destination. The
Department assumes ali responsibility Ia the execution
OF those instructions.
w III. III. TERRELL, Third Asst. Il. VI. q
Already several Of the persons engaged IN these
swindhug operations whose letters have been SEIZED
have been here TO secure release, but Gen Terrell abso
lutey refuses to yield. To-day he received teograms
from New-York, saying that suit would be brought
against the Department at once In the mean time, the
captured letters being rapidly returned TO their
owners. To-day, several hundred letters, containing
photogra Dhs OF and women, sent ont by firm who
pretend TO give any uniting 30 cents picture OF
his future wife future husband opened aud
assorted in the Dead Letter Office.
The following is an abstract Of the new alterations
additions made to the regulations for :he navy The Adj
mlras flag is of rectangular shape, blue in color with
four white in the center forming diamond and -
to be worn at the main OF vessels and IN the bow Of lis
barge or tender and his salute TO be Il guns all other
hOnOrs and ceremonies the same as now authorized Tor
the Vlce-Admiral. The flag OF COmuo lore Is swal-
owtailed, broad pendant OF blue coor, aud one white
star and Is authorized to be displayed by officers of
that rank Past Assistant Paymasters and First Assist
ant Engineers will rank with Leutenants; Second As
slstaut Engineers with masters Third Assistant En'
gineers with mdshipmen, who have graduated at the
Naval Academy. The order prohibiting officers from
visiting the District Of Columbia, without the permission
Of the Secretary OF the Navy, is rescinded.
Gen GEO. b Mcclellan called tie President, socre.
tary of War; and Gen. sherman, aud was cordially re-
ceved by each OF them. He accompanied by lbs
fatherinlaw, Gen. Marcy.