New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-17

the Patent Office, and OF its general tyranny 10.
ward applicants for patents PostPoning their
claims and making them often subject TO the
evils OF their own Encouragement and msappre-
tensions and giving others precedence unjustly
thereby.
Mr.. Bowen approved the resolution likewise,
and detected a vast INJUSTICE IN the present laws
that render il the duty OF patentees TO prove and
re-prove in a thousand cases perhaps, the same
matters Of fact once before proved and on hle in
the Courts, and at vast expense 70 claimants
Mr. Davis would vote for the resolution and did
not favor all the Patent Laws, as they were mo-
ronolies in effect and threw thousands out of en-
pl6yment annually without Offering them sab
stitute. p.,r
generally as iorestalliug the industry oil the Ia
ture. without materially benehtmg inventors
themselves. He prehXed the allowance % a mn.
tied per centsge equivalent TO tne inventors
highest possible necessities, should hs Invention
he really useful but let HIM take his chances
~ n.ea were SO wholly inventors OF new
things, but that they were more indeDted 70 Ine
past than the present to them Tor happy sell
suggesting thought leading to an improvement on
existing machinery and most all true Inventions
nassed 10 the benefit of capital and made tina
workingman more continually the slave oil clrcum'
stances than before.
Mr.. Davis. from the Committee appointed to
memorabilia the Legislature on the CONTRACT syn
tenn. read the following report thereon Whch va
received and read, aud sRartly debated upon tu0
nroposition 70 send 20 the Legislature IN eh@So
Of Mr Gregory. Member from this City, bat was
carried.
THE MEMORIAL OF TIE ISDUsrKlAL eos s''ltSs
To tie Honorable Mmbe,s " Ae Ss.te s.~
~ re Stg eof Nec- York ~ Legislature ds,efaoSG
GENTLEMEN The Industrial Congress oi VIC Siy OF
NewYork in Congress Assembled IN eompnSo WIN ia
stncrons Gom our constituents aud Agreeable 20 uo
nronpfgs OF our own conscience your honor Do "a
hereby memorisized TO enect suitable avs 70 & b
6sLr contracting OF public works OF tbs sac 9I ne
principe Is known he hsneiu ia pfacuce Tor - oe
Eeved TO be the duty Of Government to proIec. "y "eS
d aim nile against The violence % tie strong and Ins ma
eIinatlous OF the crafty, and whereas m ls vi
public works. there Is pducoie lnNo's e NJ,
II Witch wjdeus he extremes o. social cOhdiuonr
ENCOURAGES fraud pride aud tyranny on me one nal1 anu
preye nts moral and intel ce.ual culture anu
ci,s are omen obtalnel BY unworthy aud inprse-
cal men as reward for some former PoIucs ssIylce'
which work when done rnst DC perlolulcu un net
rs,sion Of practical men, therefore The reward reahed
bv lie impractical nouacuug contractor Is IA aes pun
,b ~ " no have performed the WORK
and la either the principle OF Justice az, a.
that Government falls OF iis object, ana lnal
hoJ,ne elects or wv refuses 10 perform is duty wnero
he prscIce.ofa principle sconnued whose elects upon
society is 30 ruinous to puolic mofas anu p,s,
nerv as the contracting Of Public Works Is VIGOROUSLY
known to be- .. ..,,o,t. ,is,s aarnast
w solicit your immediate attention TO this important SUD
lei hon1S Thai you viii such laws that shall securs
The performance of public works under inc %
practical mechanics or arzans, emp9yed ~ e S ,T
such and thereby protect the Public treasury om
fraud and 6 e sSSer rS% Psy source Of vany from the
sleciions IRA b. DAVIS, lcomnittee
WIN ARBUTHUST,
Several gentlemen debated pro and con tn
above memorial and the question OF public con-
tracts generally favoring the spirit OF the memo
rial and equally condemnng the injustice aud In
equaites developed by the prevailing system
ali the burdens thereof falling upon the working
man while all the profits went solely TO the con,
tractor with contingency in his favor that should
he make bad bargain the Legislature and all
public bodies would sslve his wounds, but had no
sympathies for the real sufferers who really per-
formed the work, and at all events had to bear the
burden of failure or success upon the part of con-
tractors by low compensations for their labor spe-
officially or generally over society in every branch
of industry.
The hour for adjournment having arrived. the
Congress adjourned until Tuesday evening next.
w j. YOUNG, Reporter 70 IndustTlal Congress