Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-12-10
WASHINGTON LETTER
From Our Regular cors-pondsns.l


campaign cluuS vi Luo DibUIiCo VI
Columbia was a shouting success.
The Republicans of the national cap
itol have no votes, but the managers
of every national campaign made by
the party can testify to their ell
cheney as workers for the party and
to their liberality in contributions.
The largest available hall was Sc
cured for the meeting the only one
larger has an Ice floor, and is being
used for a skating rink, which made
1t entirely too cold for red hot az
fair like this meeting. 5000 tickets
were divided among the clubs; each
ticket called for seat, and they
were all used. Besides hundreds
stood up, and many had to be turned
away for lack of room. Quite num-
Der of Senators and Representatives,
participated In the jolliflcation.
Representative Grosvenor did not
let any grass grow on the mischief
making story that be was to be a
candidate for Speaker Of the next
House. He not only denies the story
but took occasion to say what every
Republican in Congress knows TO be
true, that Speaker Reed will have no
opponent for reelection before the
republican Caucus Of the next
House.
MIR. Cleveland may not be trying to
play into the hands OF those who are
trying to prevent any general revis-
ion of the tariff by the next Con-
gress, but that is about the only
construction that can be placed upon
his having limited to Senator that
he would allow the Dingley Bill to
become a law without his signature,
il the Senate passed 1t at this session.
without further amendment. Had
he desired the bill to become a law
at the last session he could easily
have accomplished it, as he could
have controlled the votes Of enough
democratic Senators to have Offset
the votes of the Directing silver Re-
publicans.
Seif-preservation is the first law of
lawyers, as well as of nature. That
is why the better class of patent
lawyers are making their voices
heard in protesting against methods
adopted by some patent solicitors to
obtain the money of inventors for
services alleged to be but not actually
rendered. They recognize that I'M
less the honorable men in the profess
sion can put a stop to these practices
the inventors and the general public
will soon be CHASING the best of
them with the shysters whose only
object is to work the inventor for
all the money he can raise. In pro-
tecting their profession from the bad
and designing they necessarily pro-
tect the inventor, and the inventor
never needed protection worse than
he does now. Among the worst of
the Objectionable methods, which
cannot be reached under the limited
authority welded by the Commits
sioner of Patents, but which is be
lieved could be reached and stopped
by the organization OF a Patent Bar,
are the periodical gambling lottery
competitions and the speciously word
ed circular, which induces the in
ventor to believe that the money is
waiting to buy his patent as soon as
he gets it, which, OF course isn't un-
til after he has laid all the fees of
the solicitor.
Senator Lodge has put stop to all
the talk Of the probability of his 60
ing into the cabinet or the diplo-
matte service by saying: "There is
no place in the gift OF the President
that would tempt me to give up the
position of Senator from Massachu-
sets. The very fact that went to
Canton would indicate, 1t seems to
me, that had no application on file.
As matter of fact / would not per-
NIT anyone to say anything for me.
There is no place desire other than
the one now occupy 1t is very
clear that If all the other republican
Senators have the same idea that Mr..
Lodge has OF the comparative desir
ability Of being Senator and being
a member of the Cabinet, that nc
Senator will be in President McKin
ley's Cabinet, but there is reason tt
believe that there are Senator'S who
are willing to accept cabinet port
folios.
1 Chairman Cannon, of the House
Appropriation committee, who is al
ready up to his ears in the work o.
preparing the regular appropriation
bills, was asked to outline the po icy
that would be folio wed by his con
: mittee at this session of Congress. Ii
reply he said: @The committee will
no doubt Recommend appropriation