El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01
WASHINGTON
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Of the way.
New Diplomats.

New Diplomats.
Uruguay established n legation mere
last summer and she Is sending Senior
DR. Don Juan Cuestas son OF the pres
ident. as minister. He avows that one
purpose of his coming Is to secure an
American wife and that he intends en-
PERTAINING lavishly during the winter
Wherefore he is likely to become pop
uIar. The Republic of Acre" is send
ing a minister also. one Henry w. Phil
lips. who used to be an American Pos
sibIy he is yet. for the legal existence
OF Acre" is not undisputable.
The Republic of Acre.
4 rich Brazilian banker named Aries.
- the employer of a number of rubber
gatlsrers up on the Madeira river.
where IL crosses the Brazilian line into
Bolivia. This line of demarkation is
more nominal than anything else. since
the country is in the high woods and
has never been explored except by the
Indian caoutchouc collectors Both
Brazil and Bolivia had an impression
that Senior Aries ought to pay them
taxes. but he dissented and established
4 new republi Acre with a cap
ftaI at "Ariepolis' and 10000 inhab-
Nants all in his employ. And he has
managed to stand of the war like eff
forts of both countries pretty success
fully in the last fifteen months. Now
ne is sending minister. The coun-
try is run by Americans. ii may be
mentioned parenthetically-
Filibustering for Patent
Away back in 1879 a Washington at |
Iorney named Seldom filed an appltca-
non for a patent on gasoline automo-
bile and by skillful maneuvering man /
aged to keep IL hanging up in the Of
nee until recently. when his patent
was issued him. OF course it will run
for seventeen years from date of issue
and as IL contains broad claims for pc
troleum engines on self-propelled wag-
ous the automobile people are worried.
He has just won a preliminary legal
battle with one of the big firms I'm
der the old lawS-now changed man
was given two years to answer letters
or rulings in the patent office and as
Seidon was a foreseeing man and knew
the automobile field was not ripe for
The sickle yet. he took full advantage
Of the privilege. For instance the pat
ent office would write him letter
about some minor detail. say July 1,
1880 Mr. Seldom would wait until |
June 2S. 1882 and make his response.
When the office acted on II Seldom
would wait just short Of two years .
again. And as result he has patent
which antedates everybody and is good
for the full term. The Bell Telephone
people played the same game very sue
They kept the application
for the Berliner transmitter. which
vas almost a necessity in the telephone
hanging fire in the Office until the orig
NAL Bell patent covering telephones
broadly had almost expired. In other
words they used the transmitter for Is
years and then got a patent for 1t for
a years more This sort of filibuster-
ing will be more difficult hereafter
zince congress has changed the law TO
pruyide one-year intervals instead OF
two
The supreme court has decided that
lobacco is an article of commerce JUS
ice Brown who handed down the de-
-fsion says that probably no other Z
vegetable has contributed so much to
ne comfort and solace of the human
ace Regarding cigarettes he was 2
more cautious in his opinion Tenn
-ssee passed a law regulating the sale &
a. cigarettes and 1t was assailed as in
ISOLATION of the exclusive power OF con- =
,ress over interstate commerce. Tenn 3
Dee's supreme court affirmed the =
of the law. but incl
entalIy stated that cigarettes were :
% an article of commerce With this =
iew while upholding the other courts
iseision on general principles. Justice <
brown dissented. ID. OF TX