The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-03
w WASHINGTON.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 1877
THE TIME LOCK coNTEsr-IMPoRrANr DECISION
By THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS.
General Spear, Commissioner OF Patents, today re-
used grant passnt James Sargent, of Rochester
member OF the nrm Of Sargent GreenIoaf TO cover
the employment Of time locks in connection with in.
dependent combination LOCKS upon safe and vault
doors Tho application OF Mr. Sargent was a feature
OF the noted tme.lock that has been pending
before the Patent Office for past General Spears
action Is based principally upon tho fact that the suit
instituted by tho Yale Lock Company In the Supreme
Court Of the District OF Columbia IS being prosecuted
TO determine de tho right OF using tho time lock
IN controversy. Tho recent decisions Of the Commits
.ioner favor Of Sargent Greenoaf will remain ."
statu quo during the pendoncy of this litigation. The
Hall Safe and Lock Company of Chicago ana Cincinnati
and about three thousand banking Institutions
throughout the country interested in tho result OF
the suit.
THE SURVEYOR oENERALsH1p OF UTAH--GEN-
ERAL KIMBALL SUSPENDED.
Arar an Investigation nj the Interior Department
General Kimball the Surveyor General Of Utah, has
becu suspended Great efforts have been made for bis
reinstatement by influential politicians, most promi-
pent among whom Attorney General Devens, but
tho Secretary the Interior is said to be unaltera-
bly, opposed TO his retention. This discrimination Is
sustained by fact that The officials OF tho Treasury
Department have produced evidence OF naccuracy IN
the accounts Of she Surveyor Generals ONCE OF New
Mexico during the ncumbsncy of General Kimball
The President favors the appointment OF Colonel N.
shaughnessy. lato collector OF internal revenue in
Mississippi, to the vacant Surveyor Generalship to
please Senator Morton. General Stahl, of New York.
Is strongly urged for the position.
THE INVESTIGATION OF rHE INDIAN BUREAU
VISIT OF THE SIOUX TO wAsHINGroN-CHIEF
JosEPHs ESCAPE.
II 10 understood e. the Interior Department that In
the further inquiry into the Of the Indian
Bureau and conduct OF IT'S employees the parties
against whose official integrity allegations have been
made and testimony taken will in few days be al
lowed opportunity be heard in their defence,
aud to examine the Witnesses whose evidence
has been taken. 1t is claimed that nothing has been
developed to affect the honesty and integrity
of Indian Commissioner j. q. Smith, but in
the Of some of his subordiuates and the conrac
for Indian supplies there is authority for saying
that very bad condition OF things has been found to
exist, mainly antedating Commissioner Smiths ncum-
bency of tho ONCE. The reply OF tho members OF the
investigating commission to the charge that their pro-
ceedings have been conducted IN secret and without
allowing the appear and be heard. is that
they not charged in their official appointment
and instructions to commence an investigation, but
simply make inquiry ana report to the Secretary
of the Interior for further action At tho outset OF
their inquiries when Chief Clerk Gapn, OF the Indian
Bureau. was charged with alleged misconduct he was
notified in writing that any statement which he
wished to place file with the commission would
be received
The delegation of Indians from the Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail agencies will be sent here in charge Of
Lieutenant w. p Clark secoud Uni ted States cavalry,
and will arrive in Washington about the 18th Of Sep
TENDER. General Crook urged in his further recon-
nendaion by telegraph for their coming that it would
please the Indians and facilitate their proposed
nova to the Missouri River.
1t is believed at the Indian Bureau that Joseph and
bis band have escaped from the pursuit of General
Howard, as recent advccs have been received from
him