The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-19
MUCH YANKEE INGENUITY
1T is O IN THE A RECORD
OF PATENTS GRANTED.
Important Mint Ruling ON Gold Ship
ments-MiIitary strength of the
United states i'm Detail.

1o,oiU patents granted. incluuing reissues
end designs. There were 1850 trade marks.
o2 labels and 80 prints registered. Patents
that expired numbered l9.9Ss. Allowed APP
plications forfeited for nonpayment of the
final fees were 4,062. OF the total of 3e,sl5
applications received. 1888 were for de-
signs, 80 for reissues, 1,7S9 for caveats, 2,lG3
for trade marks. So for labels and 127 for
prints. The total receipts of the Patent Of
fee were 1883, DDS: total expenditures, ST.
247.2SS; surplus turned into the treasury,
sl10, 401. On July thirty out of thirty-six
examiners had their new work within one
month of the date Of filing, and three of
the remaining six overran time by only one
day.
Amended work in nearly all divisions Is
acted upon within fifteen days after filing.
Applications awaiting action by the Patent
Office numbered S.57S. which is between 500
and 900 more thar on July 1, 1899. The num-
Der of applications for patents, however.
received during the fiscal year just closed
was 5000 greater than during the preceding
year, and the number of amendments
acted upon was also correspondence
greater. The work of the clerical divisions
also has been kept we'll up TO date. Inc
annual plea for more room for the Patent
Office is made in the report which says:
II WOuiu seem as t0OuSn ne clliC Il
Office building should be applied TO the
uses of the Patent Office.
AS this does not seem feasible and the
building is too small to meet the needs OF
both the Interior Department proper and
the Patent Office, the commissioner ex-
presses the hope that at an early day a
new building may be erected for the sole
use of the Patent Office. The Senate bill
for the construction of a fre-proof build
ing which may be erected for the sole use
OF the Patent Office, including a hall of in
ventions, is referred to. This, he says.
would be but a slight recognition or the
debt the United States owes to inventors.
The surplus receipts of the Patent Office
Tor the past ten fiscal years amount TO
more than s., DOC. 900, while the total excess
of such receipts covered into the treasury
amounts TO over 100000 The report
recommends a further reimbursement of
salaries and a classification of the cleri-
cal force of the office. and an appropriation
for steel racks for the scientific library.
x x
Consul General Dickinson, at CONSTANT
nople, in a report to the State Department.
says: "By an imperial trade a new tariff
has gone into operation affecting goods
and products from Roumania, Greece, Ser
via. Montenegro and Bulgaria, and ma
terially increasing the duties on products
from countries having the favored nation
clause in their treaties. There is a well
authenticated report that the merchants
of Athens are urging the Grecian govern
ment to impose heavy duties on Turkish
products entering Grecian ports in retalia-
ton"
XXX
The Postof1ce Department has ordered
that. beginning Aug. 1, all mails for the
hawaiian islands shall be forwarded ex-
clusively to San Francisco or other Amer
lean ports for Dispatch, and that the pres
ent practice of dispatching these mails via
Vancouver, b. -, be discontinued.
Judge Advocate General Lemley has rem
dered a decision to the effect that the
President has the authority to appoint sew
enteen more second l~ieutenants in the
United States Marine Corps.
Colonel Edward B. Williston, Sixth Artil-
lery. has been placed on the retired list.
4 4
Mr.. Roberts. the director of the mint, has
authorized the superintendent of the
United States mint at San Francisco to pay
for gold bullion shipped there from Alaska
in drafts on the subtreasury at New YORK:
This action is taken for the purpose of
maintaining a considerable supply of gold
at that point. in view OF possible snip
ments TO Manila and China
xxx
The adjutant generals office has issued
its annual statement of the organized mi
litia force of the United States, together
with the number of men available for mill
tary duty but unorganized. The grand to-
tai of organized militiamen in the several
States and Territories at last report was
LOG. 339. Those unorganized but available
for military duty aggregated 10.343,l52. In
diana has 2,703 organized and 100000 unor-
ganized; Illinois, $3.50 and 10000; Ken
lucky. $3.50 and 100000; Ohio, 6.962 and 6i5.-
600. New York leads in organization, with
- mn - a. -rfth ICED
forces. with S39, SIS. Nevada has the small
est organization, with 1853. Oklahoma has
the smallest proportion OF organized forces,
with 500 to $1,000. Nevada has the largest
proportion of organization, with 359 to 500.
Xxx
The commissioner of internal revenue has
held that If any part of the surplus of a
bank is set over TO the account of profit
and loss or undivided profits it must
still be taken into account in reckoning
the special tax of the bank. Even actual
undivided profits, If they are by forma ac-
ton of the bank authorities ordered to be
employed in the banking business instead
of being divided among the stockholders,
must be included In estimating the amount
of special tax which the bank is required
to pay.
XXX
To-day's statement of the treasury bal
ances i'm the general fund, exclusive of the
III III Iht III =
demption, shows: Available cash balances,
sl49, $685.; gold, S10,921, IH.
The President has received from Homo
lulu the following letter, dated June 30.
addressed to himself and to Congress-. from
ID. Kalauokalani, James X. Kaulia and
Robert w. Wilcox, members of the former
Hawaiian national committee:
Greeting: We, the native Hawaiian cit
liens of the Territory of Hawaii, send their
greeting. They wish to express to you
their appreciation and thanks for the lib
eral laws which the Congress has enacted
for the Territory of Hawaii, and which
your Excellency has approved, on the 30th
day of April last. We further extend our
good wishes to your Excellency. to the
Congress and TO the people Of America"
Representatives of the smaller ship
building plants are bringing pressure to
bear upon the Navy Department to secure
the simultaneous advertisement of all of
the fourteen naval vessels authorized TO be
built in the past two naval appropriation
acts. They have represented that such a
procedure would tend TO insure a more sat
isfactory distribution of the naval work
among the shipbuilders by preventing the
big concerns from crowding out the smaller
ones, and assert that the government would
save at least a million and a half of dol
lars. The department has fixed on Nov. Is
next as the date for opening bids for the
construction of the five battleships. and the