Morris tribune., 1896-12-09
Interesting Items Cleaned at
the Capital by the Tribune
Reporter.
All the Important Doings of
Great Men During Va
cation.

under the auspices of the united
Republican campaign clubs of the
Distric of Columbia was shout
ing success. The Republicans of
the national capital have no votes
but the managers of every national
campaign made by the party can
testify to their efficiency as work
els for the party and to their liber-
aIity in contributions. The largest
available hall was secured for the
meeting-the only one larger has
an ice floor and is being used as
skating rink, which made it entire
In too cold for red hot affair like
this meeting. Three thousand
tickets were divided among the
Gibbs. Each ticket called for a
seat and they were all used. Be-
sides, hundreds stood up and many
had to be turned away for lack of
ree1n. Quite number of senators
and Representatives participated in
the Publication
Representative GrOsvenor did
not let any grass grow On the mis-
chief making story that he was to
be a candidate for speaker of the
next house. He not only denied
the story, but took occasion to say
what every Republican in congress
knows to be true, that Speaker
Reed will have no opponent for re-
election before the Republican eau
Gus of the next house.
Mr.. Cleveland may not be trying
10 play into the hands of those who
are trying to prevent any general
revision of the tariff by the next
congress, but that is about the
only construction that car be
placed upon his having limited to a
senator that he would allow the
Dingley bill to become law with
out his signature if the senate
passed it at this session without
further amendment. Had he de-
sized the bill to become law at
the last session he could easily
have accomplished it, as he could
have controlled the votes of enough
Dem Ocratic senators to have offset
the votes fthe Directing silver Re-
publicans-
Self 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
mel hods adopted by some patent
solicitors to obtain the money of
1nyentors, for services alledg to be
bat not actually rendered. They
recognize that unless the honorable
men CAN put stop to these prac-
Eiees 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 protecting their profess
sion from the bad and designing
they necessarily protect the invent
or, and the inventor never needed
protection W orse than he does now.
Among the worst of the objection
able meth DDS, which cannot be
reached under the limited author
5ty welded by the commissioner
of patents, but which it is believed
conld be reached and stopped by
the organization of a patent bar,
are the periodical gambling lottery
competitions and the speciously
weraed circular which induces the
inventor to believe that the money
Is waiting to buy his patent as soon
as he gets it, which, of course, is
not until after he has paid all the
fees of the solicitor.
Senator Lodge has put a stop to
all &he talk of probability of his
going into the cabinet or the d.
piomatie service by saying: ''There
is no place In the gift of the Presi-
dent that would tempt me to give
up the position of senator from
Massachusetts, The very fact that
I went TO Canton would indicate
1t seems to me, that / had no appli-
.safiOn ON file. As a matter of fact |