Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-20

to the rapid increase in the number of appli
cations. 1t was therefore thought expedient
to place several Of the assistant examiners in
charge of duties which had previously been
entrusted only to the principal examiners.
Accordingly, on the 6rst of April last, five of
the assistant examiners were each entrusted
with the charge of an independent examining
desk so that for nine months of the past
year there has been eleven separate and indie
pendent examining rooms, with each an act
ing principal and assistant examiner These
assistant examiners, who have thus been per-
forming the duties of principals, and the
CLERKS OF the second class who have been act
Ing as assistant examiners, seem to have lust
claims TO be placed on footing of equality, as
TO compensation, with others who are perform
ing the same duties and are subject to the
same responsibilities. The necessary exam
nations cannot be made with proper prompt
ness with less force than ten principal and
as many assistant examiners and should the
business OF the Office continue increasing as it
bow promises, before the end of the present
year we shall need tUeire of each class of ex-
aminers. The number should therefore, 1
think, be Increased to that extent at once, or
power given to the Commissioner 80 to increase
1t soon as occasion requires.
"Ihe business of the Patent Office progresses
or fingers in precise proportion to the efficiency
OF the examining corps; and the increased ex
pense OF supplying few additional examiners
is trifiug in comparison with the advantages
Of having the business of examination dis
patched in few days after the application is
made, instead Of obliging the applicant to
wait as many months for that purpose
The Emigrant Passenger Ship Question.
1t seems likely that after all the time and
labor expended by the commerce committees
of both Houses of Congress, the Secretary of
the Treasury, the chambers of commerce of
various commercial cities, and large number
of the leading ship owners of the country, tho
proposed reform of the laws regulating the
shipping engaged in transporting passengers
to our shores, is not to be consumma ted at this
session, though all the parties interested whom
We have named above. have agreed to adopt
and urge the enactment of a common bill.
That is, there is no question as to what reforms
shall be made: inasmach as all the CONNER.
cial men int crested, as we'll as both commerce
committees of Congress adopt the bill pre-.
pared by the Secretary of the Treasury, which
is the result of years of investigation by Off
WIZ VI wv AiCoSuiy O0pdItm0ut.
1t seems that Mr.. Senator Fish has pet
scheme to the same end, of his own framing;
and being absent at Havana-whither he has
gone for his healthhhe claims the senatorial
privilege Of delaying this branch of the pu bile
business until he returns: The country NAV
not know that what is termed senatorial
comfy at times works such grievous injuries
to the public interest.
The idea of delaying the contamination of
a matter of prime public Importance for a
year, because single Senator who takes in
t rest in it is absent from Washington will
strike the country with alarm inasmuch as it
smacks Of the indirect growth of privilege"
unknown, certainly, to the theory of the Amer
lean Constitution.
The result Of the matter as it nov stands,
seems to us likely to be, that, for year longer,
we shall have paupsrs and criminals brought
in upon US by thousands, and emigraats muir
dered by wholesale through improper accom-
modations on ship board, only because sim
gle honorable Senator finds it necessary to be
absent from Washington at this time; there be.
ing not the least difference of opinion as to
the particular legislation necessary to cure the
evils to be eradicated, between the officers of
the Government and the committees of Con-
gress charged with the matter, on the one side,
and the commercial interest of the country on
the other.
Of NJ "a he IT,;x II
States Patent Office for the week ending Feb.
ruary 20, 1S55-each bearing that date:
A B. Childs d Henry W. Dickinson, of Ro-
chester, N. Y.-For machine for feeding pa
per 10 printing presses.
Edwin A. For bush, of Ashland, Mass-For
improvement in sewing machines.
Erred. Dentzler. of New York, N Y.-For
improvement In bank locks
Geo Il. Clarke, of Leonardsville, N. Y
For improvement in chimney safes
Geo Blanchard, of Washington, D. C.-For
Improvement in life saving RATS
Levi Bissel, Of New York, N. Y.-For i'm
proyement in metallic springs. Ante dated
August 20, 1854
James Ii. Bennett, of Bennington, VT For
improvement in straw cutters.
Chas. K. Barnes, Of Oswego, N For i'm
proved mill stone dress for hulling rice
Yarnall Baily, Of West Chester, Pa.-For
Improvement 10 fluid burners
Samuel ii. Noble, of Westfeld, Mass-For
Improvement In screw wrenches.
John 5. Keith and John Brooks, of Can ton,
Mass.-FOr improved bullet mould.
George P. Ketcham, Of Bedford, Ind For
method of driving pairs of reciprocating saws
Gustavus Hammer, of Cincinnati, Ohio-For
improvement in pump valves.
Charles c. Hall, of Portland, Me-For im.
provement in the preparation of paper from
resinous barks
Daniel Haldeman, of Morgantown, Va-For
improvement in harrows
Joel Hastings, James Ramsay, and Henry
Il. Chamberlain, of ST. Johnsbury, Vt-For
machine for cutting lemons
Jos. G. Goshen and Saml. M Ely, of Shir.
leysburg, Pa.-For preparation of maize leaf
as q substitute for tobacco
Samuel Wetherill, of Bethlehem, Pa.-For
improvement in apparatus for separating zinc
white.
Darlington Wilson, of New York. N Y
For improved griddle.
Thomas Trip, Of Sandy Creek, N. Y.-For