New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-13
MAKING POINTS FOR BELL.
Mr.. sToRRow CONTINUING HIS ARGUMENT.
LxlMiNER WILBUR SERVING DOTH sIDEs-AN Is
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WAsmNGToN, Nov. 12.-At the Department
Of Justice great soctudo IS felt TO the result Of the
telephone hearing going before secretary Lamar
and his Cabinct" Twas to be- expected. probably, that
for several reasons which spccifythc
officers OF that Department would be willing to any
aid in their power the effort to secure recommends
ton from Secretary Lamar in favor OF bringing suit In
the name OF United states to annu the Bell patent
This they are doing After the adjournment OF the hear
Ing today ex-COng gresham Young who IS one OF the
directors OF the company in which Atorney-General
Garland is interested and also one OF the counsel
in the case, said You como here tomorrow
and you will hear something interesting We shall have
a statement from the Department OF Justice that VIII
knock over everything Mr. Storrow has SAID to-day and
leave the Bell people without leg to stand on Colonel
CAN'T has gone to the AttcrneyGeneras office ana we
shall he ready In the morning
Definite Information respecting tho formidable docu-
ment mentioned by General Young could not DO OBJ
tanned
There was no lack of interest in the hearing to-day
Tho large room IN which 1t was held was filled
with patent attorneys and other spectators
who listened attentlyely to Mr.. storroW'
who continued and concluded his statement III
behalf Of the Bell patent Mr. storrow is complete
master OF this subject. and It apparent
that Mr.. Lamar had become actually Interested Inc
counsel began by readiug letter written Dy
Professor Bell to his parents In inc
Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution
and himself and saying that Professor Henry had adj
vlscd and aged him 10 pursue and complete tho
investigation by himself After this came piece OF evil
dence which evidently surprised the antiBell people
They have insisted from the outset that Bells patent
obtained by COLLISION between tho inventor anu
H. F. Wilbur who at the time the examiner In the
Office who passed upon such applications they
have placed good deal Of dependence upon the
testimony of Wilbur himself and his affidavit cut con-
siderable figure IN the preliminary proceedings whloh
resulted in socitorG Goodies order to District
Attorney McCOrrey, OF Memphis. But Wilbur Is an ac-
commolating OF person and he has furnished both
sides with adavs. This ought to show that he means
strictly impartial certain remarks that he
has dropped within a day or two there is reason 10
suspect that wholly disinterested He Is re-
ported to said that he is milking both
sides" and to have assured another that the antBell
people had paid him " a retainer" OF $1,000.
To return. however. to the charge OF col
fusion against Bell, which consisted OF the alega-
tion that he had induced -niner Wilbur to give him
Information respecting the contents OF a caveat filed by
Elisha Gray the same day that his own application
fled thus enabling him to amend his application
and escape the delay and uncertainty of an interference
The law and regulations prescribe that the contents
OF caveats and applications alike shall DO treated
as confidential archives. What surprised the anti
Bell people today the reading ola letter written by
Examiner Wilbur to Elisha Gray five days after the
Professor Gray that the application coniccd with his
three particulars which lac carefully set forth
for Professor Grays guidance. Mr.. Storrow also read
written by Professor Gray's counsel few days
which shows that he had received other confidential
information from Examiner Wilbur according TO which
the OF the Bell patent could he prevented until
Professor tray should have opportunity TO file
applca which would throw the matter into inter
Professor Gays counsel advised against this
course however because Gray made the invention, as
understand 1t, while here, after Bells application was
sworn to-"
Mr. storrow read part OF the answer
Of the defendant in the Dowd 10 show that
in that trial the merits Of tho different inventions we're
r. not Dowd in tho employ Of the Bell Company ."
asked Mr. Humphrey, who represents the Globe Com
e 40 sir; and he never It's about time FOR that
kind OF talk cease. rctorted Nj storrow with some
heat, ana Mr. b!ckcrson added: mat u The Kind OF
insult have hld All along from the other side"
Secretary Lamar declared that there must Ice no more
form fLnt Antonio Mcpcci invented perfect speak.
ing telephone early ISL, but that owing 20 ms
eHreme poverty" he had never been ,bo to take out
patent As sufficient , rgpy o to these
more than dozen patents taken o9t by
vc.cent driHLs"; one dltrI AUGUST 20. 1873. for
sauces Tor food, one dated september =. $50 iora
ygrometei In TACT Mcncci seems to oc profile
inventor II nrt patent was Issued 20 him IN 800 and
In answer to Mr. Eaton's affidavit to the effect that
ID
Mr tuCcd the record TO show that Ills
counsel had used every effort to decision In
favor OF his client had been seconded by Professor
Norton. who had failed get audible speech transmit
ted through tho Rei~ Instruments. He also read from
Judge Lows decision where the Court declared tnnt
Professor Dolbcas effort 10 transmit speech through
the Refs, instruments had resulted In signal failure
Mr. SorOw then advertcd to the Pttsburg suit Of last
summer dwclt upon the fact that more than nine
OF the testimony presented IN this hearing by the
antBcI people consists " copies OF aiiayit- used In
tire Pttsburg He informed Secretary Lamar aud
his associates that by Of counsel that
20 10 n a
fed the supreme Court In order that II may be de-
cided the same time with another now on the
docket Of that involving the validity OF the Bell
patent which, II is expected will be decided at the
present term.
Touching the andayits made by experts to the effect
I;css instruments had been operative their
hands. Mr. Storrow said that they had introduced in
those Instruments the mechanical cOntriyauces Of !
Bells instrument for the express pur |
pose Of producing the effect produced |
by Bell and that they obtained those successful results
not by carrying out tho effect aimed at and described by
Ilriss, but by avoiding those effects
Mr. StOrrow closed by ridcung the demand OF the |
other side the production by tho Bell Company Of
certain contracts which IL Is party and copies OF
most OF which TO he found In printed records.