Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-26
THE TELEPHONE SUIT.
Ex-Judge Hill Attacks the Testimony
 of MT. BelIs


 NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-The mechanical contrivances which for three days have adorned the desk behind which Judge Wal lace sits in the United States circuit court and listens to the arguments of the lawyers in the great suit of The Bell Telephone com pany vs. The Peoples Telephone company had been removed this morning when the case was continued. They had been packed away in two huge trunks and excused from further attention Judge Wallace looked 8 trifle weary when he came in and took his seat on the bench. Evidently the long and dry arguments of the counsel in the case are beginning to have their natural effect upon the court. Ex-Judge Hill continued his ar gument for the defence. He is not as rapid or as easy in his delivery as MT. Storrow, who preceded him, but the points of his argument are made with considerable force and are in most instances well taken. This morning he wore Prince Albert coat and dark spotted neck scarf in which was thrust large intag io pin. While speaking he usually assumed an erect posture and used many gestures. Frequently, when bringing out particular ly strong argument, he turns partly around and addresses the spectators instead of Judge Wallace.
 Daniel Drawbaugh, who claims priority in the invention of the telephone, sat with his counsel throughout the morning session. Anyone who has the least idea of the princi- ples of phrenology would declare at once, on looking at MT. Drawbaugh, that he was inventor. He is a medium sized man with a well shaped head, grayish red hair and mous- tache and intelligent gray eyes. His hands are hard and plainly show the nature of their owners occupation. He listened to the ar gument of his counsel with evident inter est.
 Ex-Judge Hill began his remarks to-day by referring to paragraph which appeared in the morning papers concerning an appli- cation which had been made to the Supreme court by the Peoples Telegraph and Tele- phone company for the dissolution of that corporation. He said that the report would doubtless have the effect of preiudicing the minds of many against the present suit if some explanation were not made In the first place, he desired to direct the atten- tion of the court to the fact that the applica- tion was made by the Peoples Telegraph and Telephone company, and not by the Peo- ple's Telephone company, which was an en- tirely separate organization. Judge Hill was of the opinion that an effort was being made by parties interested in the suit to af- feet the stock market by misreprssenting the condition of the Peoples Telephone corr pany.
 Judge Wallace assured Mr. Hill that news paper reports and rumors would have nc effect upon his decision. The case would be decided upon the testimony and arguments submitted, and not upon newspaper articles.
 Continuing the thread of his argument, Judge Hill discussed at some length Pro lessor Bells own testimony relative to the invention of the telephone. In letter to MT. Hubbard dated Salem, June 2. 1875, MT. Bell said that he had made a discov- cry of the very greatest importance, for he had succeeded in transmitting signals without any battery whatever. This letter did not declare that articulated speech could be transmitted It was a fact that, although MT. Bell claims to have conceived the tele- phone in 1874, he was not able to transmit articulated speech until 1876. Mr. Hill, af- ter citing several conflicting passages in the testimony of MT. Bell, said that the latter had proved himself to be an untrustworthy witness.