The Press., 1891-01-01
Washington Ger. Hartford Post.)
 SIMOND'S SUCCESS.

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 Representative Simonds did not res from his labors in behalf of an information al copyright law when his bill passed tn, house. Knowing very we'll that in spit, of the fact that the senate passed the Chac, bill and that it's opinion on this subjec has not changed since it was necessary tc save the bill from the possible indifference ot its friends, Simonds went at once to tho senate and has worked zealously there fol his bill ever since. This is the kind o work that tells in this matter, as the his tory of the attempt to secure this legisla tion proves conclusively. It has not beer magazine articles, or printed circulars o1 duplicate petitions which have brought the bill to it's present position. That result is due to the newspapers and to the persona effort of interested senators, represents tives and newspaper correspondents with their friends in the two houses The out siders who came down here, taking them all together, had no effect whatever on the result, for while some helped, others hin. defed. I remember in the course of my own very limited efforts (if I may be ex. cused this personal reference) that I was constantly being told by friends in the senate and house to ( .om I commended the movement :: "Why don't you keep these New York fellows away? Only fo1 them the bill would have gone through be- fore" Of course they had to run up against some of the hindering fellows. But to return to Simonds-all his work in both houses in this matter of the interna- tional copyright has been of the most del. lcate and diplomatic character, for in his review here, short as it has been, he has mastered the methods of congressional success. If the bill passes the senate, as it will, believe, although not perhaps for several weeks yet, it will be but just to give him the chief credit for it..
 It Is pleasant to know that the value of his work has received the appreclative praise of the country. I asked him to let me see some of the letters and telegrams he has received and SO he let me have a few. Here, is Richard Watson Gifder's telegram
 "You and all friends of copyright are to be congratulated in the name of American honor and American literature" Here is A. D. T. Randolph's: Congratulations on the result, with many thanks for your efficient service"
 From across the sea came a pleasant message embodied in the following note from M. Jules Beufre of the French lega- tion
 Dear MT. Simonds Count de Keratry in reply to my dispatch has just sent me the following cable: ''Nos riffs remerc- iersent Simonds. (Signe) Syndicat.'
 This "Syndicat are the literary and Keratry represented last winter whilst in Washington.
 It gives me infinite pleasure to send you of kxxla which you so highly deserve.
 From the J. 0. Lippincott company came letter sayiue sPermlt us to con gratnlate yon on your successful manage. ment of the international copyright bill 1T house of representatives Aside from the obligation as well as acknowledged policy of honesty, we believe that the lav will be beneficial alike to authors (Ameri can and foreign), printers and publishers We do not anticipate that it will materially affect prices of books generally i; but it vii check the ruinous competition in reprints which is debasing the American taste by its inferior products literary and mechan ical and in other ways will tend to elevate American literature.'
 George Haven Putnam of G. P. Put nam's Sons writes Permit me to add my word af appreciation of the skill, tact anc good judgment which have characterized your management of the copyright bil and to extend my cordial congratulation that the success of the measure must re main associated with your name and add . well deserved prestige to your (too short congressional career. have no doub that Senator Platt cln be trusted to SCI that no chances are neglected in the sen ate, where we can. as I understand, b. beaten only by being Crowded out. The state of Connecticut in which Noal Webster began in 1905 Cor whereabouts the work of securing the protection of tn law for literary productions is certainl.. doing its full share in the present attemr to widen the range of such protection. 1 w. w. Appleton of D. Appleton & Go writes: ''I was very glad to see copy o the Congressional Record which hay Ijust received that your speech was fnall, printed in full. want to tell you that and it seems to me that it gives the bes general resume of the copyright situation of any thing have seen. I hope ths every effort will be made to get the bi
 before the senate as early as possible s that all the good work that you and other 7 have done will not be in vain. *.* M father, who was in the international CODY right movement in Henry Clay's time, ha
 been particularly gratifed at the success full results solar attained and wants an ol
 polt unity to thank you in person. present he is laid up with bad cold or h would have written to you."
 One of the most agreeable from Connet
 ticut men was this from Commissioner (
 Patents Mitchell, himself so stalwart an
 valuable friend of the movement:
 "Permit me to. congratulate you upo
 your splendid success. heard gentle
 man say that no new member had achieve
 so marked success in his first term
 fifty years. Whether this is literally so ( not it is splendid achievement and I sil cerely congratulate you upon it. I shoul vastly have preferred to be the means ( a securing such great advance in legisl }, tive recognition of literary property tha i to have been reelected. What is ul 8 doubtedly your gain was great loss g the district"
 \ No wonder that the friends of MT. s q monds here hope that he will decline au F office that wonld interfere with his retul
 to the house of representatives, where h
 career, if he had been reelected, would g
 ter all his success have been but beginnir
 next winter. FLOYD.
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 the driver of cab and the driver of a hears