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Show Ix the reorganization of the signal corps under a law passed last summer, which divorces the military from the ecientilio branch, joining the weather bureau to the agricultural department, General Greeley recommended the promotion pro-motion of one officer who has never been identified with the service at all, and of another whose most conspicuous record is his trial by general court martial. mar-tial. Lieutenant Finley, whose work has given character to the signal service serv-ice and which has earned for him the most substantial appreciation of the learned world, was ignored, and he is to be transferred to the line of the army. It is a most contemptible exhibition exhi-bition of euvy on tho part of General Greeley. |