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the United States district bench by Presi
dent Harrison. Soon after going upon t.
bench, he attracted the attention of :hy
eItire country in his decisions upon III
application of the government to close ~
the worlds Columbian exposition on sun
days. He dissentad from the two circUit
court judges on that occasion. ON an ap-
peal to the circuit court of appeals. pre-
sided over by Chief Justice Fuller, mis- dis
sent was sustained
His most widely known act however
was in connection with the DeDs riots j
1891. In connection with Circuit judy
William a. Woods, he issued the iaJurctiC
IN favor of the government and asairs
the rioters on that occasion. When this N
junction was spurned by the rioters, h.
called upon the President for the federal
troops-a call that unquestionably saved the
city from mob violence Sunlmoning the
grand jury al the earliest day permSs. bic
by law, he delivered to TN m GA their as
sembling, in the MIDST of the riots, charge
that gave him an instant rational repuIa-
ton
He has. in the meantime. handed down
many decisions of interest to large portions
OF the public and the profession generally.
Many patent cases of Importance have been
decided by him and he is considered par
tculaTly well informed on patent law. His
paper, read at Saratoga in August last, on
the philippine Question and the Policy OF
Expansion was OF especial note.
Commissioner Greeley.
Arthur p. Greeley was born in Methuen.
Mass. He subsequently lived in Concord,
n. H.; was graduated from the Concord
High School in the class of 1876, and from
Dartmouth College, with the degree of A.
B., in the class of 1888 He took his degree
of LII. 3. from the Columbian University
in 1856, and the degree of Ii. NJ. in 1887.
In the latter year he was admitted to the
bar in the District OF Columbia. He was
appointed assistant examiner in the patent
office in 1854; principal examiner in 1891,
eAaminer-in-chief in 1885, and assistant
commissioner in 1897. His appointment a
eXaminer-in-chief was made by President
Cleveland without solicitation, and al
though in his politics he was opposed to the
administration he was confirmed by the
Senate without opposition. He was APP
pointed assistant commissioner of patents
in 1897 at the request Of Commissioner But
terWorth, by President Mckinley, and was
again confirmed by the Senate without op-
position. Mr. Greeley's appointment to the
patent office was a result of high standing
in the first examination held under the
present civil service law, and his promotion
has been solely upon merit. As assistant
examiner he served in the division of metal
working and electricity B, in the latter
division having charge of the class Of cleo
tric railways When he was appointed
principal examiner he was assigned to a
newly formed division comprising packing
and storing vessels and advertising. He
was transferred in 1894 to the division of
Instruments of precision, and while in
charge of this division for a number of
months was examiner of trade marks.
From 1S91-93 he was a member of the
committee in charge of preparation, ar
rangement and installation Of the exhibit
OF the patent office at the worlds fair in
Chicago, this task involving an extended
consideration of the development of nearly
every important art represented in the pat
ent office. He was also a member of the
committee in charge of the preparation and
installation of the patent Office exhibit at
Atlanta. During the long Illness of the late
Commissioner Butterworth and until the
appointment of Commissioner Duell Mr.
Greeley was acting commissioner of
patents.