The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-10
WASHINGTON.
REGULAR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

I WASHINGTON, April 0, 1875.
TOO MUCH MoRMoS1sM N TIE OFFICIAL ELE-
MENT IN UTAH.
Assistant Secretary Cowan or the Interior
Department., who WAS sent TO Salt Lake to inquire
into the conduct OF Governor AXtell, has returned
and to-day reported to The Presinent that most 0
the federal appoinuees are personally popular with
the AIormons and Objectionable 10 the Gontiles.
1t is understood that there win be important
changes In the officers Of that Territory.
ARREST or Ex-UNITED STATES MARSHAL KINDS
FOR COMPLETELY IN TIE POSTAL BIDS
FRAUDs-wAs 1T cRIsJE?
Ex-United States Marshal ainds OF Alabama
charged with completely in procuring contracts
for mail service, tonight arrested on the
charge OF bribing government clerk 70 insert
bids by which the United States was prevented
from letting the mail service TO the genuine bid
ders. This unprecedented crime has not only cost
Mr. Kinds the position OF United States Marshal
for Alabama, but subjects him to the annoyance OF
arrest and probable trial for having been con-
cerned in a scheme to aid Postmaster General
Jewell in making his department paying insttu-
tion Though Mr.. Jewen still complains
that the receipts do not quidate the
expenses he does not intend the clerks
shall impose upon the department. lower blds'
even If 1t sh culd require increased Deficiency
bill to meet the necessary obligations. Mr.. Kinds
denies any connection with the plan to cheaper
the mail service and says he never bribed or at
tempted TO bride a CLERK in such an Infamous
business. His experience III public lie has been
to tho contrary-that crime was in stealing money
or completely in exactng sums Tor services not
dered. The charge OF attempting TO delraua the
government by diminishing its expenses he does
not believe 10 crime defined IN the revised
statutes. He has given bonds, however, Ia the
sum OF 81. 900 10 prove that he Is not unpatri-
otto as the charge alleges.
SERIOUS ERRORS IN THE coDFIED LAws-oB-
soLETE STATUTES RE-ENAcTED AND NEW
| ONES oAnTTED-THE VOLUME UTTERLY IN
/ RELIABLE.
on careful examination of the Revised
Statutes very many important errors and omis-
i slons nave been discovered. The law which
authorized the President 10 assign an acting chief
to q military bureau; the law which allowed
whiskey TO fatigue parties III certain cases; tue
law which made beans part or the army ration |;
the law which iorbids the drawing OF government
checks to bearer; the law wnich fixed the FIRST
/ Assistant in tho ordnance Bureau, which defined
the duties OF certain clerks in the War Depart
meut, have all been omitted. TIE Law touching
the retirement or army officers has been materi-
ally and vtay changed and leaves no
option with the President IN retiring OIL
GERS under certain circumstances. One OF
the anomalies OF the new codihcarion is the right
or the President to appoint two and one half
cadets TO the Military Academy every year. On
examination ofthe codIhcation 1t Is found that the
marginal pagnal references do not refer TO the
/ sections intended. A great number or obsolete
and useless old statutes have been carefully COM
pied; FOR instance, a mintiaman must appear
i upon parade fortified with a match lock, port
4 FIRE, certain number OF filnts and pair OF bullet
J nouds, a requirement suitable Tor the eighteenth
| century. but hardly progressive enough Tor the
! Centennial. In a word, the volume has been found
! utterly worthless and the ten thousand copies
4 printed ny the government really only worth
1 Tor reliability SO much waste paper. The enactng
/ clause which makes the book legal statute goes
on TO say that any old laws, no part or which are
piled in said volume, are laws sLil. SO the
inference is drawn that everything is law not
tanned In the nine pounds OF paper and binding
| denominGted the Revised Statutes This slIp-shod
\ legislation reminds OF the law which was
passed IN July, 1870, codiying the patent laws,
which substantially abolished some OF the prnci-
pal departments ofthe government. aud the force
or which was never admitted, owing TO the magni-
tude OF the error.