| Show WORK OF THE PO POSTAL CONGRESS delegates close their business ond and fir tire flitting homo home washington N hington juno ju r 0 IS 13 tho the universal postal postal congress the lle fifth convention the ot or the igind in the world nails ac d its lt labors labora today after a closed session lasting several severa hours tile the next congress the bleto sixth mex tennial ono one VM mill ho be held at R rome 0 me italy in february 1903 the final session ua a devoted to the the formal signing of tho general treaty and or of the detailed articles emoiy delegate signed these two sets of papers subject to tho the formal ratification of if hla his government the original of nil these documents will be placed in the archives ot of tho the state department for preservation and tilled copies III he forwarded to lo all the governments comprising compelling the universal postal union un i on it 1 t was wa ite this afternoon milon ft hen the final said bald and the woh postal Poff til wai man declared ad adjourn journet Ml to meet at rome folio ing Is an official resume of t the h e n sulan of the work vork of the congress ron con greBa greBs tile the intermediary I 1 t rats have beell facilitated and the tariff diminished qulie quite on a graduated scale lor for the ensuing six alx lx years uniform fo rm boinis have been projected for P stamps postal cards unpaid are subject to lo a double tax that 1 14 4 cents in crisce or of tile the former tax tt aich was masi 10 cents the same as for unpaid letters circulars produced rm on a machine typewritten type written ritten lit in quantities or of twenty circulars all of the same character am admitted to the international malls at the same bamo rates as printed circulars objects of natural history animals dried d ried plants or preserved geological are admitted as samples special concerning packages of N alue postal Toi ital orders books of identity identify said and subscriptions to jour nali mili hove have lin been thoroughly revised thin country Is not actU actually actual alIV lv concerned in theme arrangements arran cements they mostly affect the states of the continent of europe the new treaty will become operative january 1 1393 moat lost of the delegates dele left tho the city for their hom hoina tonight having on en pa e sage on tho the ocean liners for thib and nex boxi week eek |
