Evening star., 1885-11-16

The hearing Of the telephone case was -
snmed this morning before Secretary Lamar,
Assistant Secretaries Muldrow and jerks and
Patent Commissioner Montgomery. A printed
orief. by j. G. Patton, Of Newark, n. J., was per
mitted to be fled At the request OF Col.
Young, the time originally allowed the peti-
TONERS was extended an hour and a half, and
Secretary Lamar notified tlse Bell attorneys
that the same extensiqe would be granted TO
them.
Mr.. Humphreys, representing the Globe COM
pany, read an afidsvit by w. W. Goodwin,
president OF the Globe company, In answer 10
.ne aindavit OF Mr. Tompkins, relating 90 Ger.
tain alleged negotiations OF agents OF the bsli
company for the purchase OF
MEUccIa's RIGHTS
ana the suppression OF his claim. The affidavN
set forth certain correspondence from L. n
uations.
The Bell company's counsel denied that
welsh was connected with their company. lt
was shown that Welsh made several propo~t-
tons looking 20 the purchase OF Meuccia's
claim. but that he was not able 20 nut up any
money. money. finally. after several conferences the
whole matter was dropped.
The affidavit next quoted contains kilograms
from ID. Nj. Adee 20 Mr.. WIlioughby, in SUBJ
Meuccia claim. or rather TO buy out the parties lies
who owned the claim. The telegrams from
Adee 10 Willoughby were dated in september,
The counsel OF the Bell company admitted
that Adee represented that company. The
was arranged by. Adee 70 take place
between willoughby and agents OF
that Geo. RoSeap spHny any m fssssBs sns
party, both representing themselves
thorized agents of the Bell company. appeared
resulted from the meeting. as willouehby re.
Meuceia claim, and the Bell agents would nos
Treat without them.
MILLION nrxr,oxrn
An affid avit Of one Reardon was attached 20
the Goodwin afiidavit IL set forth that the
Bell agents mentioned q 900, 900 as a sum to
be considered I'm connection with the purchase
sumed in consss eam a m Ihe Menccia claim AS
cia's discovery of the method OF transmitting
articulate sound by electricity ante-dated Bells
patent
On the side of the petitioners the denial of the
Bell attorneys that Welsh represented their
company was met with the statement that
Ihey would prove he did represent the Bell
company.
GRAY AND BALDWIN.
Prof. Gray then read afrdavi prepared by
himself in answer TO the one submitted Satur.
day by Mr.. Baldwin, Gray's former counsel
The substance OF the affidavit went mainly TO
the point as to the relations between GRAY and
with Bell Gray regarded BaIdWin' n,' as " not
only faithful In his relations as counsel
but as friend and entrusted him; he followed
baldwln's advice In abandoning the contest
with Bell. The affidavit recited that subse-
quently Gray had reason 70 doubt Baldwin's
ndelity and he was now satisfied that Bell had
been given unfair advantage over him fGray1
ana the contest for telephone patent The
afndaNit (which was read 10y Prof. Gray him.
self declared that the instrument described In
Bells original patent could not he made %
transmit articulate sounds.
THE NEW ORLEANS COMPANY
Mr.. Beckwith, for the New Orleans company,
then began his argument In behalf of the pe-
titioners. He dwelt upon the alleged point that
the Bell patent did not conform TO the descrip-
ton contained In the papers upon which
IL was procured. He maintained that
the Bell company should be held 10
an exact reproduction of the Instrument
described and their patent He took up the
points OF fact upon which the hearing is based,
was bosh.
AT noon half an hours recess was taken.
Mr.. Beckwith concluded hrs argument for
the petitioners, and Mr.. Dickerson replied Tor
the Bell company. Mr.. DickeIson took up seri-
atm the arguments OF the other side. He main-
tained that the Bell patents were properly and
legitimately issued.