Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Patent Laws 10 BE Enlarged ana
Perfected, aad Inventive Genius
Protected from Piracy
Senator Coke's steadfast Opposition 10
Nppoti,m In 0ilicc.
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of The discussion of the patent laws
has been TO change the direction OF
public prejudice and opinion. AS mani
tested i'm congress and throughout tue
country, IL is now proposed TO make
the patent office district department,
and rive IL the entire building occu-
pied by the Interior department
The laws pertaining TO III
in any event. will be thoroughly re-
vlsed and the robbery of patentees by
kusyes. ike those who sold the driven
well tube over the West TO people VINO
did not know that the tube was pat
ented, will be rendered Impossible
The people and patentees, alike, VIII
be Guarded against such scoundreliSn.
II is "A singular fact that there are
numberless devices, described IN the
patent office, the owners of which are
too poor to popuari1e them; but IL
commonly happens that capital be-
comes in such cases the partner OF pow
erty aud genius; the news
paners are thus invoked
and the comforts and convenieuces
aud appliances of industry and toll are
thus forced upon popular attention,
and the country il enriched in spite OF
itself The adoption of anything new,
however useful, is always resisted by
ignorance, enforced by habit and how
ever obviously advantageous novel
mechanism may be, enormous eNpen-
ditures and tedious months and years
must elapse before the multitude VIII
assent to its adoption. The poor devil
who invented the iron tube mentioned,
was trying through ten weary years To
| induce the farmers of the West and
South to adopt it. He advertised 1t.
He supplied all who came at u cost TO
himself, with only au additional
charge for services rendered by the
press and those of patent attorneys and
patent office fees. But thieves, having
money, seeing that he had none,
rushed in. They made the tubes aud
sold a million. They never advised
purchasers that they were selling au-
Others property, and when the owner
came demanding his dues, the pur-
chasers who had been defrauded, ex-
cited AN uproar even in congress
against the patentee, and thus against
the patent office system.
AN ILLUSION.
A cotton planting U. S. senator was
telling us this morning that he bought
AN Indispensable attuchment.!o,hi cot
ton.gin. He never thought for once
that he was buying a patented article.
He used II innocently, and the
patentec, knowing this, only sought
his remedy against the vendor of his
mechanism. The senator was willing
to pay bonus above the actual cost
of the iron and wood as shaped by the
inventor, for the toll and study and
Itu Ia,
the perfection of the device, but was
unwilling TO pay twice. Therefore he
urges such an amendment OF the law
that patent piracy will be punished,
even as the code of nations
deal, with robbers on the
high seas. There Is no
disposition now. as u month ago, to
repress inventive genius or force 1t into
concealment of products of its own
labors. On the contrary, tho govern
ment, in making the patent Office u
department and reforming its laws,
would guard both the people against
| knavery and inventors against piracy
Prejudicts, misdirected for time, will
now exhaust theic force in guarding
alike the public and public benefactors
against piunderers of both.
NEPoIIsM KNOCKED IN THE HEAD
Senator Coke, who never lodges n
question, but goes straight forward
when an issue is to lie met. never
violating principle, even when the
, multitude are sought to be bribed. AS
by Blair's school bill, made dead shot
yesterday that started the OtIice-ho!i-
ing party in power, when he proposed
to amend the judicial salary bill by n
proviso inhibsting the appointment; To
office OF any kinsman 10y any Judge
holding office in the United States
Since this proviso strikes down those
related TO judges either by affinity or
consequently, judicial mothers.in-lsw
and the wives relations of the federal
bench in Texas, "a in Washington,
were all agog about it, ard the senator
Is in everlasting hot water. The iu-
dicial women OF the country have
been appointing all the clerks and
bailitis and nice young attaches of all
the courts for these twenty years, and
this little amendment OF the burly
Texan senator is a direct assault upon
Susan b. Anthony as the impersona.
ton OF woman's rights. II the amend.
men the not withdrawn, Texas will soon
have the ball-headedest senator TINT
shakes the capitol by his stately tread
One or two federal judges in Texas
have distinguished their ca.
reer by making offices at
thelr disposal the property of
admirable knsfofk, aud here again
Richard Coke, even in his own state,
deiies the old women on aud Off the
bench. am much afraid the grave
senator will rue the day he sutilxed
this amendment to the judiciary bill.
But submit the Amendment and
the senator's brief speech on it and
hope women, after reading it, will ia
appeased
Sec. .. 1t shall be unlawful for anv
person related by c0nsanguinitv or
affinity to any circuit or district Jude
oil the United States 10 hold any'oillee
or employment in or pertaining 10
any court presided over by such Judge
and any judge who shall knowingly
cause or permit violation OF this see.
ton shall be deemed guilty of mis-.
deneanor.
Mr.. Coke said; have introduced
the amendment not through any hos.
tile intent 10 this bill, because intend
10 vote for II, but desire to correct AN
| abuse which is known In the sfata
where live 10 be very great one so
great that on the second day of tba
meeting of this congress presented
memorial which have before me now
printed in the Record, signed bv tba
United States district attorney FOR tbe
Western district Of Texas, asking con.
gressional action on this very subject
| We have three districts In Texss
,rs Northern. the Eastern, and tha
Mesiern districts. In the northern