The New York herald., 1870-09-16
WASHING ON.
The President Snubbed by Congress-Th
Authority to Mako Ad Interim Appoint
ments Repealed Collector Bal.
ley's Sureties to be Prosecuted.

The repeal of the law authoriSing the Temporary
appointment Of heads OF departments and bureaus,
referred 10 In these dispatches yesterday Is the sub
ject OF consideration ut the Treasury Department,
and important questions OF judicial nature viii
arise IN consequence Of this stupid legslaion Upon
further investigation IT Is ascertaned the under is
an inexcusable one and the fault rests ensrely with
the chairman OF the Committee on PateutH Jenckes
as the following will show:-A commission consist
ing Of eminent lawyers and men practically &C
qualnted with the needs OF the Patent Once and the
rights OF inventors, was designated 10 revise, sim
ply, arrange and consolidate the statutes relating
to patents and copyrights, and also to perform
the same labor for the statutes relating
to the postal service. When their work
was completed 1t was found that there were large
number OF statutes to be repealed. or partially so,
extending back as far as 1871. In the framing OF q
repeating section much time and ability was ex-
pended, and nsubmittng their report the attention
OF the Congressional Committee on Patents was
called 10 the complicated provisions of the law and
to the trouble likely to grow out OF any wholesale
repeating OF statutes. 1t was suggested therefore,
that In citing the acts parts OF acts to be repealed
should be explicitly set forth in the schedule and
II an explanatory note needed 1t should be
added. In reporting the new Postal law this plan
was strictly followed, but Mr.. Jenoks rejected the
So&SeSeouS Va tHc pdlu COMMISSION Ill reporting tce
act to revise, consolidate ana amend the statutes
relating TO patents, and In lieu OF the repeating
clause framed by the most cminent legal talent
known In the country substituted the binding and
sweeping clause which erfectually wipes out all
authority conferred the President to appoint tenn
porary heacs OF departments in the absence OF the
heads, or to permit vacancy 70 be filed in the
Chiefs OF bureaus The schedule OF acts repealed
was taken bodily from the table OF statutes cited in
the report OF the commission, and somebody Is re-
sponsible for the stupid bluader OF supposing be.
cause they were referred TO, that they must neces.
sarily be repealed, and added them q, toto ex-
ceptiDg only such portions OF the appropriation
bills referred to as related to the Patent Ofce The
grevousness OF the lault Is In the government en-
ploying competent parties TO codfy Its laws and
then. when 1t comes TO the practical benefits to be
derived therefrOm, Congress rejects the advice
given. The fact having Deen made public that the
law authorizing acting secretaries. &C.. has been
Internationally repealed 1t would appear that 1t u
the duty OF every absentee to Immediately return to
Washington ana resume the duties they are sworn
10 fulfil,
ColOred Olnrial C0mins to Grief
When MIR. Browning was Secretary OF the Interior
he appointed his messenger, coored man named
william SyphaX, one OF .hc trustees for colored
schools OF the District. William resides In the arsto-
cratic portion OF the capital inhabited by foreign
minister's, wealthy residents and the more Int III
gent Of the recently elevated race. His term OF service
as government empoye runs back many years and
Mr.. SypaX induced Congress to believe that he was
entitled to al additional compensation of s2lsO for
his past labors. The Dill was passed, and Oh the
strength OF it he built a neat residence among his
nabob neghbors; but alas for human calculations
the First Comptroller to-day returned the papers to
flan
that the account could not be allowed "a the gov
ernment had already Overpaid Mr. SyphaX for his
services and, instead Of being indebted to him. he
was really In debt TO the government The decision
causes great deal Of merrImcnt among the cppo.
nents Of Mr.. Syphax who, they allege, has seriously
interfered with the progress OF the of educa-
unn, on account OF his prospective fortune.
Collector Bancy's sureties.
The Acting Commissioner OF Internal Reyennc
authorizes denial OF the statement that the snrc.
ties the official bond OF Mr.. Bailey, the deaulting
Internal Revenue Collector of New York, Will not
be made 60 suffer- Bailey has been presented by the
Grand Jury on the charge OF embezzling sl3I 900
OF government money and suit brought against the
s<eties named on his bond to recover the amount
of the governments loss and the cases Will be
prosecuted TO the extent of the law.
Internal Revenue Gains.
The net gain from the sale of revenue stamps for
the month OF July 1870, the sales for the same
month OF 1869 WAS $71,O67 10. The gain on spirits
and fermented liquors for the same period was
sl,2S7,2s5
Notes Exempt from Stamp Duty.
In providing for exemptlng from stamp duty GER
tain papers named in section four OF the act Of July
H. 1870, 1t found that the law does not include
those papers specified I'm the old act Acting Com
missioner Douglass to-day ruled that the exemption n
Of promissory notes for less sum than one hundred
dollars applies equally to memoranda receipts, and
other written or printed evidences Of amount of
money to be paid on demand or time designated.
Imports for 1870.
IL appears from Official statistics that df the total
imports for 1870 S415,S47,2l3 worth were duiable
and 800 free OF duty; s26s 274 worth were
entered for consumption and s193 s7i, $50 en-
tered for warehouse.
Foreign vessels carried nearly sixty mine per cent
Of the whole imports in 1859 and siyty-scven per
cent in 1S7o OF the total exports sixty five per cent
in 1869 and slxty-two per cent in 1870, and of the
whole siXty-seven per cent I'm 1869 and sixty four
and one-haf per cent in 1870
Important to Tobacco Manufacturer.
Acting Commissioner Douglass, OF the Internal
Revenue Bureau, has written letter deciding that
the law f0rbids dealers In tobacco sell their GUS
toners small quantities OF cavendIsh or plug to.
bacco. and having received pay therefor cut 1t up
with hand cutting machine without paying the tax
OF thrty-two cents per pound. The Acting Commits
sioner says that every kind or manipulation of to-.
bacco by which the character and condition OF the
tobacco Is changed is process OF manufacture.
Grand Army Of the Republic.
Colonel J. o. Burnside, formerly OF Illinois, has
been appointed Assistant Inspector General OH the
stan of the Commander Chief OF the Grand Army
OF the Republic and assigned to duty as Acting In
spector General In place OF General f.. A. Starring
now in Europe.
MAINE