The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-03-18
THE BELL TELEPHONE
WIN Tinkle More or Less Musically
f at Columbus, o.
The Bill to Nacate tho Telephone ratent.
Completed.

WAsuISGToN, March 0-7The bill which
the Government will file against the Bell
Telephone Company aud Alexander Ora
halu Bell has boon completed 1t viii be
died at Columbus by cx Senator Thurman,
As stated some weeks ago. and IL is believed
that next Monday viii be finally agreed
upon m the,lnte for IT, presentation to the
conit, This bill itself is n very lengthy
document covering tifiy pages OF legal cap,
closely printed IN small type. The bill NJ
present omits the name Of the circuit
court In which IL VIII be flied, aud
also the local company against
which the suit viii bo directly
brought The omission will he filled la by
Judge Thurman, in Columbus when tho
bill finally reaches him. The suit is brought
under Section $, Article / of the Constitu-
tion and the acts Of Congress passed there.
under The United States charges that
certain letters patent issued 10 Alexander
Graham Bell, dated March Z, 1870 mum
herrd l1iH5 and January ~, lsf5, num-
hercd lS,iss, were Illegally and improp'
eriy procured to be issued, and for this rca-
10 brings this bill in equity NJ means Of
causing justice to be done. PruE Bell Is
plRnly charged with not only falling to
meet the requirements OF the law,
but with misleading aud dcceiying
The examining officials of the Patent Office
The case Of Philip Heis ofBcrmany, among
oibern. IL presented NJ length, and 10 IL
claimed that be, IN 1851 invented and pub.
tishvd 20 the world description OF an
apparatus vhcTehy speech could be trans
nittcd Particular stress j. laid upon the
caSe Of Elisha Gray, who, on the same
day, February r. 1919, that Prof. Bell
arpoaredat the phtfnt Office with his doc
nnrni, filed a cRveRt In this he cx-
prcssly declares that he had invented AN
instrument for which he claimed the nrt
ot transmitting vocal sounds aud conycr,
aatiou Geographically through AN cleo
trio circuit Prof Bells application wns
filed later ia the day II contained no ref.
tfence "a nriiculAis speech, and lackedin
description or drawings any machine or
apparatus then or at any time capable ~
transmitting kpecch Yet Prof Bel
claimed patent "fur transmitting vocal
VI other sounds Geographically The
United States charges that Bell was aDtici-
lst0d IN tho discovery Of the elec-
frirnl speaking telephone by Philip
ltciN Cromwell Fleetwood, Var
Icy Antonio Muecci. Elisha Gray, Thos. A.
Edison, Asehel X Eaton and many Others.
II y claimed that this valuable discovery is
either The property Of some one of these
prior dlcpverers. or having been aban-
donrdb by the original disrovercr is now free
70 be- used by the people Of the United
sStAtcs IL Il alleged that the telephone Is
~ great public interest aud Importance,
and that the Bell Telephone Company,
by receiving and demanding large sums of
money for use ot telephones alleged TO be
covered 10y it, patents is expressing the
people uf the United States. The court Is
prayed that II the patents art. not TO be
wholly repealed 10 decide IN what part
they arr void and make decree concern
ing that portion OF the patent which is
wrong and Illegal