New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-18
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE - WORK OF THE
MIXED COMMISSION on CLAIMS-AMERICAN
INVENTORS AND THE VIENNA EXPOSITION.

GENERAL PRESS DISPATCH.l
TIE President has recently been arranging the points
for his Message, but has not yet begun writing IT. The
contents OF the document be Inferred only from hs
recent private uterances. but It Is safe to say that
it Will be more liberal in ITS tone, especially to-
ward the South, than his former messages, the
recent vote in that section being indicative of better
feeling than heretofore toward the General Government
while the press moderate In its utterances The
recent pardon OF Appleton Oaksmith il regarded by
Southern gentlemen as showing a more friendly policy
and foreshadowng the Executive action relative To
OF the Kuklur prisoners now serving out their
sentences in the Albany Penitentiary
Tho mixed Commission on British and American
claims has awarded s2,49O in the case of Francis
Impeg against the United States, 1t appearing
that he is and always has been subject Of Her
Britannia Majesty; that IN the late war he
aided the Federal Government, OF at worst
remained neutral; that in Noyemger, lSG2, be
was. az alleged, arbitrarily and without good cause
arrested by officers and soldiers Of the United States
Army, and imprisoned in several places successfully,
thereby suffering serious loss in health property and
character The Commission awarded S63 In the case OF
James Marcher against the United States. He claimed
5000 the value Of vegetables hay and one horse taken
by the Army OF the United states. Inc Counlss,1qn
oiso allowed S75 I'm the OF James StOt against tho
United states. This was claim Daseo upon w -
Of the claimant by the United states aeI1ollLes on 4
Cavalry The Commission dlsalowe9 the elaiin on
Robert Davidson, carpenter aud builder, WHO
Leeds II was not proved whether. or not the
battery was completed for use, or IL 60 whether
N actually went into the Confederate service Inc
Irnited States officers took possession or the same
and gave a receipt the i'll al other cases OF
appropriation OF private property TO the use OF tho
United States. The counsel OF Her Majesty TOOK inc
ground that IL was the intention Of the claimant 10
take Sides but 20 gain liyehood and the SUBJECTS OF
neutral STATE have the right 70 sell arms or Other uu
tnns az war 10 either or both begerents WITHOUT VO
atug their neutrality compromising the GONefheh,
The Commission also disaOwed the cases OF Joseph ID
Heycock Frederick W. Ruggcs, Samuel NJ l(eIsOhi 81
nj ovner of the brig Napier and cargo. All these were
account of failure 20 appeal from the court below 70 INC
supreme Court of the United States
Many inventors Of the United States have expressed
their reluctance to contribute to the Vienna Exposition
for the reason that owing to tho stringent character OF
the patent laws OF Austria American patentees would
have no remedy against the appropriation Of their i'm
movements by persons OF other natonalites without
compensation In order to overcome this difficulty ou
Government yesterday prepared PROJECT OF treaty Oh
convention between the United States aud Austria II
order TO secure that country the rights 0T Amerlcsi
inventors the extent that Austrian inventors are pro
trcted IN this country. It Is the design 10 lay THIS
prOpositiOn before tho Austrian Government at the
earliest practicable PERIOD and the telegraph may "
used TO facilitate the negotiation. should the measure
be consummated, Government Will propose 10 tue
various nations OF Europe that some international
DO made to secure the rights OF inventors
of the respective countries under similar circumstances
The only report Of any head of department com
peted Is that Of the Secretary Of War The others
IN state Of fOrwardness Nearly all the reports Of tho
chiefs of bureaus have been sent 10 the public printer