Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
CASH FOR RANGE
Adopts Senator Burkett's Amend
ment Providing Fifty Thousand
to Buy One in Nebraska.
HEPBURN PUSHES AMENDMENT
Secures Favorable Action on Idaho
Land Survey.
BROWN SAVES MR.. MANCUS0
immigration Officials Induced Not to
Deport Him.
INVENTORS WILL GAIN POINT
senate Committee on Patents FavOrs
Dill Permitting Suits Against
Government for Patents
Used by IL.
INVENTORS WILL GAIN POINT

WASHINGTON. June 1O.-(Special Tele-
gram. THE senate today adopted Senator
Burketts Amendment 10 the sundry civil
appropriation bin, providing $4,000 to pur-
chase the ground for a rifle range in Ne
braska for the joint use Of the regular
army and the state troops. Two sites
have been examined by army engineers
and reports upon their finding are now
before Secretary Dickinson. One of these
sites lies close TO Fort Crook, and the
other Is contiguous to Ashland.
Aroused because Senator Hale made
point Of order against an amendment he
proposed to the making an appropriation
OF 10000 for public land surveys in Idaho.
! Senator Hepburn retalated by making
a point OF order against committee amend
ments for special surveys in Nebraska.
Utah. Oregon and Alaska, thereby precl-
pitating a spirited conflict with senators
from those states Mr.. Hepburn finally
had his way, all amendments In question
being accepted.
Insurgent senators practically reached an
agreement to support the house provisions,
making an appropriation for the expenses
OF the tariff board. Speeches will be made
In the senate expressing preference for a
tariff commission. but announcing their
acceptance OF the house provision.
Senator Depew made an Intellectual ef-
fort to have the bill so amended as to
provide s250OOO for beginning Notifications
for the Panama canal. Senator Hale made
q point of order against the provision,
which was susetalned.
Brown saves MancusO.
Senator Brown today succeeded in pre-
venting the deportation OF Ferdinando
Mancuso pending appeal OF his case.
Mancuso has relatives in Omaha who have
been exerting themselves for a week TO
get their aged uncle past the Immigration
officers but in vain. and he was to be
sent back to the old country today untn
Senator Brown interposed Acting upon
information received from t, w. Black
burn to the effect that Cancuso is an
American citizen. Senator Brown succeeded
Tin convincing Commissioner Keefe that the
case was an unusual one. and needed fur
'ther investigation.
Mancuso lived In Omaha several years
ago. He was man of considerable means,
While there, he took out his citizenship
papers. Returning to the told country for
a visit he remained several years, but did
not renounce his citizenship in America,
He was ordered deported v hen he reached
Ellis Island on his return 10 America, be-
cause OF alleged seniltty, and because his
Family had remained in the old country.
Inventors Score Point.
Inventors all over the country will be
pleased at the action Of the senate com
mitteo on patents today when 1t ordered
reported favorably bill, which permits
suits against the United states in the
court of claims for inventors, whose pat
ents have been used by the government.
Heretofore the government has been per-
mtted to use any patent, and an inventor
could whistle for his pay. or for any dam
ages he might have suffered.
Senator Broow. chairman OF the commit
tee, will file favorable report of the com
mittee tomorrow. The patent COMMITTEES
today also decided to recommend favor
ably, a bill which reports the "caveat'
4 PROVISIONS OF the present patent laws. The
Commissioner OF patents has found that at
torneys are using caveats" as means fol
extending time, In which n patent is ef-
fectlve more than seventeen years