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Show To Prevent Smuggling. Washington, Oct. 24. In a recent- letter to the treasury department in regard tothe case of Bernard Reiss, arrested in San Francisco Fran-cisco on the charge of opium smuggling, Acting-Secretary Spaulding informed the collector there that it seems evident that there is nothing to prevent the prosecution of suits both against the goods and against the criminal. "Spaulding has instructed the collector of customs at San Francisco that in case he is not satisfied that there is no dutiable duti-able article iu the basrgage of Chinese persons per-sons pessing through this country in transit from Hongkong to Havana or elsew here via New Orleans, he will require that the baggage bag-gage be sealed and corded and placed in a sealed tar. |