Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-23
THE GREAT TELEPHONE SUIT.

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 Arguments Begun fin Most Impors- ant Case.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-The United States
 circuit court room in the postofice building 1 this morning eoptained a larse number of 1 lawyers and business men who had assem-
 bled to 1irsn to the final argument in the famousJelephone suit between the American Bell telephone company and the Peoples Tetphorie company before Judge William 0. wallace. The question to be determined is whether Professor Alexander Graham Bell or Daniel Drawbaugh was the first inventor of the speaking telephone, and immense sums of money are involved. The Bell company was represented this morning by Messrs. E. N. Dickerson, Chauuee5 Smith and J. J. Sserrow as counsel, with Prof Charles N. Cross and Frank L. Pope as experts. The Peoples company was represented by Sena- tor Edmunds, ex-Judge Lysander Hill, Messrs. T. S. E. Dixon, M. w Jacobs and Melville Burch, with Park Benjamin as ex- pert. At the head of the table sat Lysander Hill, with English whiskers and compressed lips He is the father of the Drawbaugh case To his right sat Senator Edmunds of Vermont, his associate. The Senator as sumed his customary Senate attitude, lean ing back in his chair, eyes half closed and brow corrugated. To his right sat Professor Bell, the inventor, a large, muscu- lar man, having much the appearance of Spanish count. His bushy head of hair, full beard and moustache, intelligent eyes are all coal black By his side sat Mir Dickerson, the we'll known patent attorney, good na- tured and ponderous. After the case had opened the familiar figure of ex-Senator Conkling was seen. He edged his way to the attorneys table. and took seat beside MT. Dickerson. The ex-Senator being resolutely out of politics, looked as if he carried an easy mind. He has been re- tained by the Bell side as consulting coun- sel, but will take part in the argument before the court. The remaining counsel were J. J. Storrow and Chauncey Smith, of Boston, the former a keen, suave, easy-spok- en advocate; the latter, his partner, short, broad and gray haired gentleman, with high forehead and square jaws Seated around the rail were ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hon. Richard Mccormick, ex-May- or Prince of Boston, Hon. George c! Gorham, ex-secretary of the U. s. Senate; Examiner Townsend of the patent office at Washington, probably the best informed in the country on the details and technicalities of telephone patents; Park Benjamin, we'll known ex- pert in science; J. R. Bartlett, president of the Drawbaugh syndicate; Marcus Marx, manager of the Peoples company; H. c.
 Andrews, counsel for the syndicate, besides number of interested patent attorneys from other parts of the country, among them MT. Arthur Stem, of Cincinnati, who fell heir, at the death of s. s. Fisher, to a large patent practice in the West.
 The case will probably occupy three weeks. The testimony of $50 witnesses, contained in eight volumes of nearly 1000 printed pages, will form the bone of contention. Judge Storrow opened with long scientific dis sertation on the principle of the telephone. Senator Edmunds will have the floor some time this week.