The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-25

SeCTtlaTy OF TUG interior Ny lls petlllun'
ers for the Government suit. In that, his
only ground for attack upon my opinion
rested upon a written communication OF
February II, 1876 and on hispresent opin.
ion OF the rules Oflaw on the subject He
did not suggest any other communication
nor any fraud. On October 10, 1855, be.
fore /, or any one interested with me had
communicated with him, my opponents
took another affidavit from him and filed
it before the Secretary OF thu Interior and
it is printed on page 342 Of the printed
record Of the testimony then issued. In
that he states in terms that he gave no in
formation about this Gray CGveat beyond
what appears in tho Oil ial communion
tions in the hles, Subsequently Mr.. Will
Der made IN affidavit October q, 1855,
which was used on behalf OF my patent
before the SECRETARY Of the Interior. II
contains tho following: In the conduct Of
such application there was no fraud Of
any kind whatever, nor any transaction or
communication, oral or written, which
would support any such allegation in the
least manner whatsoever, either on the
part OF Professor Boll, his attorney, N.Y.
self or any other perG0n whatsoever.
call your attention to the fact, which
appeared before the Secretary, Of the RAi'
daYit covering moro than twelve pages Of
fo0lsCap, is in Mr., Wilbsr's handwriting,
Subsequently and on November 10, 1885,
Mr.. WILDER made another affidavit for my
opponents which they usud before the
Secretary OF the Interior, 1t contained
no sllu4iOn to the topic now referred TO,
1t is printed on page 377 Of the record Of
petitioners proof before the Secretary. |
requests that you will kindly commune
cate this letter and the enclosed affidavit
to your committee.
Yours respectfully,
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
PROF, BELL's AFFIDAVIT,
W~AsnSGTON, D. O., May "a,
l Alexander Graham Bell being duly
sworn on oath depoGs and say: reside
in Washington, District of Columbia. |
am the inventor to whom were issued
letters patent OF the United States, No.
174,4Gj, dated March 1856. have readin
the Washington Post OF May 90, 1886, what
purporta to be the affidavit OF I5naS Fisk
WILDER, sworn to April - 1886 | never
presented, gave or handed to u mas Fisk
WILDER u 500 bill or any other bill or any
money, or any valuable consideration or
thing ut the place he mentions, or any
other place for any purpose whatever, |
never promised 10 or undertook or at
tempted TO or expressed Ruy willing.
ness to pay any money or any
valuable consideration or thing what.
ever for any purpose. never
knew, or believed, orheard that Mr., Bailey,
or Mr.. Pollock, or anybody else, undertook
to influence said Wilber, or made any at.
tenpts 30 to do, or employed, or eRdeaVor.
ed to employ, any corrupt practices To- OBJ.
tain my said letters patent, and do not be
lieye 80 now. So far as my personal acts
and knowledge are concerned, | know
that all proceedings in the filing and
prosecution Of the application for my pat.
ent, aud In the grant OF it, were free from
fraud aud triGkery aud honest In all re.
speCLs, and | believe that all the acts Of
others concerned were also In all respects
honest. | make These statements in tho
fullest and brOadeBt sense. Mr.. WILDER
did not show mo Gray's CAveat, or the
drawing Of it, or any portion Of either. |
have never seen the original papers OF
that Caveat, and ! did not even see a copy
OF them until after the Dlwd SUIT was
brought, which was in the fall otlS7S.
ALL WILDER TOLD BELL,
When l saw Mr.. WILDER about my ap.
plicstiop in 1876 he took up my original
application papers and pointed cut a para.
graph which was in them when the applI.
cation WAS originally filed, February n,
1870, and has not been changed since, and
which contained the following passage:
"The external resistance may also be va.
ried. For instance Jet mercury or some
other liquid form part Of a voltaio circuit
then the more deeply the conducting wire
Is immersed In the mercury or other
LIQUID the less resistGuCp does the liquid
offer TO the passage OF the current. Hence
the vibration OF the conducting wire In
mercury or other liquid included in the
circuit occasions fluctuations In the Cur.
rent"
Mr.. WILDER said that the Caveat | had
put in interferred with that. | did not
have any other knowledge oil the contents
Of Gray's Caveat, specification or drawing
or either Of them until after Gray had
published the Cayeat in 1878, except what
Sir. Gray wrote me himself about his ca.
yeat February q, 1877, in a letter which
10 In the record Of proofs for my patent be-
fore the Secretary Of the Interior. tes.
titled to this in 1870.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
City Of Washington, District OF Columbia.
SuhLCribed and sworn to before me, a
notary public in and for the City and Dis.
triCt aforesaid, this cath day OF May, 1885.
ROBERT X. SEiELLAHARQER,
fSeal.1 Notary Public.