New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-12
TELEPHONE STOCK WANTED.
AcHAYcE FOR Mr.. GARLAND TO SELL OUT.
AFFIDAvITs TO PROVE THAT BELL WAS NOT TIE
ORIGINAL INVENTOR or his INSTRUMENTS
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AFFJDAvIrs TO PROVE THAT BELL WAS not TIE
ORIGINAL INVENTOR OF HIS INSTRUMENTS.
Icy TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Attorney-General Garland
now has IN opportunity dispose OF part OF his tee-
phone stock Tor cash. morning paper contains the
following:
WAxrtp.-$1OOOO 900 Pan Electric Telephone stock;
''''' Address CASH, this Office.
II il expected that the " boom " in Pan Electric
stock will continue at least until the hearing before
the Secretary of the Interior is ended That hearing
bv the way offers striking contrast 10 the one AFTER
which Solicitor General GoOde decided toorder the
bringing a suit in Tennessee by the Government to
annul the Bell patent On that occasion the case was
decided in twenty -four hours with the assistance OF
Senator Harris and ex- Congressman Young. Now the
proceedings are formal solemn deliberate Sitting III
Judgment are the Secretary and two assistant Secre-
ares of the Interior the Commissioner of Patents ana
the Assistant Attorney General OF the Interior Depart
ment Before them is formidable array OF counsel IN
which are found Messrs. BccIwith, Young and CAN'T
who were appointed special counsel for tho United
Sates by Solicitor Goode to assist in the prosecution
of tbe sut which he ordered TO be begun at Memphis In
behalf of Mr. Garlands telephone company. The
Bell Company also il repre-: ented by eminent counsel
II MAY be remembered that in the " hearing before
Solicitor Goode the Bell Company was not represented
II TO be observed that when OF the counsel ad
dresses the august tribunal above described he says,
Your Honors" This of itself shows that the pro-
ceeding Is conducted with old fashioned slayish re-
gard for forms which ocls striking contrast to the
expeditions ofhand way in which Mr. Goode disposed
Of the matter Probably it occurred to Senator
Harris or General Young address Solicitor Goode as
- Your Honor in arguing the case before HIM.
The reading of afdayts went to-day until Score
tary Lamar became weary and asked counsel to state
the substance of the papers. Colonel CAN'T performed
tins task under difficulty for Mr. StorTow one OF
the counsel for the Bell Company appeared to be pre-
pared to correct the slightest deviation from ani exact
statement of the contents OF any affidavit lie ead
long list of the adavit and authorities that be IN,
tended TO put in evidence a. tending to show that Ben
the original inv entOr Of tho telephone Among
the papers was q communication from Acting AT
torney-GencTal Goode, expressing the OPINION 'na'
Eei-s the inventor OF the telephone and that Bells
patent had been irreguaIiy issued cctityng IN his
opinion the be ginning OF suit by the Lnted States TO
set il aside number OF aiidayis made by inventors
and crts read at length including ono by Ed
SON wherein lac states that his carbon telephone Is
now used altogether by the Bell COMPANY, thar Le had
net heard ci Bells experiments when he invented his
telephone. but read an account OF Kels's inEestGa-
tons A. supporting the cations OF Irregular pIac-
tees in the Patent Office another affidavit by ey-
Examiner Wilbur read. recitng the cucnn-
stances attending the presentation OF trays caVeat on
the same day that Bells application was received
Grays cayeat fled February -, 1876, stating that
Bcl'. application had been suspended because II bad
been the rac ice OF the Office to recognize only dher
ence in date of filing such papers. The Endorsement
of Commissioner Ellis Syeare. directing IL revocation
of the suspcn,Ory order Tor tine that II appeared
that Rcls application had been filed two hours before
Grays caycat wa, also read. Professor Gray, in his
affidavit said that he believed that Professor Bell had
learned in way his caycat and its contents aud
thar ne made that knowledge in con trucng the
in-rum, nj with which lie first successfully transmitted
arcuaa speech. He had supposed that his discovery
remained -ccret in the Patent Office az II should have
done and was not known to Mr. Bell. What he now
stated Oh the subject stated in view ol Information
which satisfied him that Mr.. Boll having obtained his
secrets, claimed his discovery ms own, and BY TINS
means got the credit of his invention.
MI ~tarrov summarized the yoiumiuous evidence that
had qccn taken iu the at pending nm Baltimore Drought
By tho Bell Company aIainst the VAST
inrfou Company. one arddVlt-t.nt maze
by Nh Wilson. who associated win
Bell n ui, rcscarches described the reception OF the tel
cpnogc IS something unknown to mankind before tht
time Bolts Instruments exhibited % tbc Centennial TX
position explained go length. and tho assertion
made tbat Gray one OF the persons VINO examined
those G.tiumrits. In his testimony I'm tie DoWi trial.
and SIR -torrDw. Gray stated that II W., the first time
DO hts o that he hal ever listened 1T telephone re-