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Evening star., 1911-01-07
PATENT APPEALS COURT
FAVORED BY ATTORNEYS

Urging the passage of the bill for the
establishment of a court of patent ap-
peals, a court of last resort in patent
cases, representatives of the American
Bar Association and of the Patent Law
Association of the District of Columbia
appeared before a subcommittee of the
Senate judiciary committee this morning.
Robert S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Ind,
and Frederick p. Fish Of Boston spoke
in advocacy of the measure by direction
of the American Bar Association. Rep
resentatives Of the local law association
were Walter F. Rogers, Joseph r. Edison
and Ernst w. Bradford.
Senators Nelson. Sutherland and Over
man compose the subcommittee which is
vocates today.
The bill proposes to create court Of
five judges-the chief justice to be ap-
pointed by the President with the con-
sent of the Senate, the associate justices
to be designated to act on the patent
court bench by the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States from
among the federal circuit and district
benches.
By the terms Of the bill the court is to
have jurisdiction to hear and determin.
appeals and writs of error from final
judgments and DEGREES. in the circuit
courts Of the United States in cases aris-
ing under the laws Of the United States
relating to patents for inventions or
from final judgments or DEGREES of other
courts having jurisdiction.
1t was pointed out to the members of
the Senate subcommittee that there is a
confusion of opinions regarding PATENTS
under the present system of deciding
patent cases. There are nine circuit courts
of appeals; and it has happened that the
Judges in one circuit have taken an op-
pcsite or different view Of practically the
same cases
The Judges in one circuit are not bound
to follow the rulings of the judges in
another. Therefore there may be an in
frirgement of patent in one circuit and
no infringement cf a patent in another.
A uniformity of patent law throughout
the United States, therefore. it was ar
gued. is to be secured by the creation of
one court in which all the cases will
finally be adjudicated. 1t is also argued,
in hehalf of the new court, that a multi
plicity of suits will be avoided.
Under the present system. practically
the same suit can be brought in each Of
the nine circuits and fought to a deter
mination in each. The taking of one of the
cases to the court of patent appeals while
the others, II filed at all, are quiet until
the one appealed case is decided, will
lessen the judicial bus ness.
Evening star., 1911-01-07

an outsider to get his hands on the checks
of any bank. The financial institutions
there are as careful to prevent their bank
checks from getting out indiscriminately
as they are to protect their money in the
vaults. The American custom of allowing
blanks to lie around on counters accessi-
Bile to everybody is unheard of. 1t is said
that it is much more difficult to swindle
a bank in England than in America.
y
A novel case has arisen recently involv
ing the rights of the students of business
colleges to give
School Method checks in the
Cause of Fraud course Of their
o""So VI 3A""u' make-believe busi-
ness operations. A Baltimore school used
the blanks of a local bank in it's opera
tions. One of these calling for the pay
ment of 5000. was lost in the course OF
business in the school and months after
ward turned up in Oklahoma, where 1t
was cashed. Before reaching the bank
on which 1t was drawn it had passed
through half dozen other banks. Many
bankers think the law ought to prevent
this sort of Stimulating business methods.
MENT.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
Claim Made for the Wireless Tele.
graph System in Brazil.

The completion OF the wireless sys-
tenn, which is now In course Of con-
struction in Brazil. will give that coun-
try the greatest wireless system in the
world, according to consular reports.
Fifteen new wireless stations are being
erected along the Amazon and Paraguay
rivers by the United States Wireless
Company, and are expected to be in
operation within a year. Successful
communications already have been made
with a vessel lying at Buenos Aires,
1000 miles south; with Amaraline, In
Bahia, $50 miles north. and with two
ocean steamers 500 miles at sea.
The government. 1t is expected. will
authorize the Lloyd Brazileire to enter
into a traffic agreement with the gov
eminent telegraph system. SO that these
stations can receive commercial mes
sages.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
A WAVE OF SUICIDES.
Many Seek Self f-Destruction on the.
Same Day in Naples. =
,reign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
NAPLES, December 30. 1910.
A suicidal wave swept over Naples ono
day recently. In the morning a cavalry
officer blew out his brains, and shortly
after. in another part of the city. young
man shot himself after firing at the girl
who had jiltec ann.
A girl of nineteen died in the afternoon
at the hospital from the effects Of swal-
lowing poison. She said she was tired
Of life. Two other girls who had also
taken poison that day were under treat
ment at the same hospital
A student who had failed at his exami-
nation sutfocated himself with gas. A
sculptor. dissatisfied with his work. poi
soned himself with corrosive acid, and
railway servant, after quarreling with
his wife, threw himself on the line in
front of an express train and was killed.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
WIFE.BEATER AGED SO.
Oldest Prisoner Ever Held in the
passaic Jail.

NEWARK, N. j.. January THE old
est prisoner ever held at the county Jail
in Passaic, N j.. began today serving q
sentence of three months for wife-beat-
ing. He is Jacob Casteline. eighty-eight
wears old. His wife. who Is seventy 1--WE,
appeared in court suffering from bruises.
which she said were marks made by
chains. fatirons and stove litter, which
her husband had thrown at her.
-Four years ago Casteline gained some
notoriety by the assertion that he had
not slept in twenty-five years.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
SHIPS TOPAY
NO TOLL FEES IN CANAL
Unless Controlled by Rail-
roads, When Coast Traders
Are Not Exempted.

Aiming blow directly at railroad-owned
steamships engaged in American coast
wise trade, the Senate committee on in
teroceanic canals today adopted mate
rial amendments to the Mann bill to pro-
vide for the government Of the Canal
Zone and for the regulation of the
Panama canal
The chief amendment was one intro
duced by Senator Flint. chairman of the
committee. It is designed to encourage
the establishment of lines of independent
ly owned vessels of commerce.
The amendment authorizes the Presi-
dent to fix the. freight and passenger
charges for using the canal. but freight
charges are limited to not less than 30
cents. nor more than $1.5O per net ton. 1t
is provided also that no charges shall be
paid for vessels in ballast, nor for vessels
owned or operated for or on account of
the United States government, nor for
vessels of the United States en-
gagged in the coastwise trade Of this coun-
try.
proviso is added. however, that the
exemption shall not apply to any vessel
in coastwise trade which is owned in
whole or in part, or which is controlled,
or indirectly, by any railroad
company.
The prOvisO refers especially to such
railroad companies as seek to avoid or
reduce the effect of the competition of
ocean traffic between eastern and western
seaboards of the United States upon
railway rates.
The effect of the amendment would be
to deny free passage of the canal to the
ships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany or any line which has connection
with transcOntinental railroads.
Another proviso would authorize the
United States to take for it's own use any
vessel which accepts free toll and pay
for the same at a fair valuation, to be
afterward.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
THEFTs IN RAILWAY STATION.
Several Arrests Made Near Care du
Lyon in Paris.
espondence OF The Star.

tOrelgn correspondence or 1he Star.
PARIS. December 81, 1910.
Americans on their way to the south of
France should be extremely careful Of
their pockets and Of their hand luggage
during their passage through the Care du
Lyon here.
The Riviera season is just beginning
and already arrests are being made and
robberies committed in or near the south
ern express every day.
Two Englishmen. who gave their names
as Jack Lyons and John Jones OF Lon
don. were arrested here the other evening
just before the train de luxe left Paris.
Detectives saw them hanging about the
trains and then pick up an acquaintance
with q passenger. The passenger, an
American, grew suspicious. The two men
left him. went into a compartment and
climbed down to the platform with a bag
belonging to another passenger containing
81 ZOO.
The next day four men were arrested
for theft in the same train. and since
then two others have been locked up.
Evening star., 1911-01-07

RYE, N. Y. January 5.-Charles Brem-
ner Hogg, q pioneer oil refiner and one OF
the organizers OF the Standard Oil Com
pany, Is dead at his home here. In his
seyenty-seventh year.
He was born In Scotland and was q grad.
uate of the University OF Edinburgh. He
retired from active business many year,
ago, and in recent years has spent hia
winters In Florida and his summers
yachting.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
TO BLOW OFF MOUNTAIN TOP.
Two Carloads Of High Explosives to
Be Set on.

NEWARK, N. J., January 1.-TWO car
loads of high explosives will be set or In
a single blast here January 10. when
railroad engineers will attempt to blow
of the top of Roseville mountain.
The blast is expected to throw more
than million tons of rock and earth into
tie valley.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
Hill Explains Proposition.

In long statement to the rules COM
mittee Mr.. Hill gave the history of
tariff legislation as constructed and
passed by the House and amended by
the Senate, calling attention to the fact
that on a number Of occasions he has
resisted Senate amendments to revenue
bills.
1.-THE time is now here" he said, when
the House should insist on it's preroga-
tives. 1t is important that this rule be
adopted SO that an error in the tariff
law can be corrected without the danger
of a general tariff revision
Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee made a brief statement
indorsing the Hill proposition. He thought
this was the proper time for the House
to assert and insist upon it's constitution
al prerogative and hold the Senate with
in proper bounds.
Mr.. Hill declared after the hearing that
he thought there was an excellent chance
of getting his resolution out of the hands
of the committee and before the House.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
"First Glimpse Of q Star" /"

Mr.. Fyles, who writes this entertaining
sketch for our Sunday Magazine, is an
authority on the drama. He IL the liter
arv director OF the New Theater. His
recollections Of famous stars are always
intere sting.
Evening star., 1911-01-07

died Thursday At the home OF his Am
Theodore Matthias. near Tannery. Nd. Hc
was the last survivor Of the children a.
the late Jacob Matthias, eli wen known
residents of Carroll county.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
President to Attend Gridiron Club
Dinner,

President Taft this afternoon accepted
an invitation of the Grdiron Club to at
tend its dinrer Saturday evening, Feb
r,,a.y 1s at the New Willard.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
D0DGING THE LAW.
VI-SWINDLNG THE BANKS.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

The banks are a particularly attractive
field for the professional crook. Opera
tions are possible which do mot violate
the letter of the law. bIt do infringe seri-
ously upon the spirit of the law. 1t Is
said. for instance, that in the city oil
Washington there is a man who makes
speciality of "check kiting'' and succeeds
in doing large business on very limit
ed account. He accomplishes this by
having small deposits in a number of
banks and having confederates in several
cities. 1t is said his legitimate accounts
in the banks aggregate less than 500. and
yet by keeping checks lin the air. he is
able to maintain a continuous working
capital Of at least $1,000. This scheme
works perfectly as long as he and his con-
federates attend strictly to business. If
he should be sick single day his whole
house OF cards would tumble to the
ground. The banks are acquainted with
his methods. and yet are practically help
less. man who passes bad check
without any funds in bank may be pun
ished severely. but few dollars on de-
posit safeguards him from the punishment
he deserves.
The dread of the banking profession is
the forger and check raiser. 1t is said the
aggregate receipts of
Banks Dread their operations
Check Raisers. amount an unit, to millions lion
The bankers of the country have resorted
to every expedient to protect themselves
against these criminals. but each plan
they work out proves to have a flaw, anG
the crook Is quick to find the weak spot
The banker has tried every sort OF safety
paper, but the paper manufacturer has
been unable to produce anything which
Will defy the expert check raiser and
forger. hen the bankers brought out the
punching machines with the words mot
over so many dollars. they were imme-
diately countered by the check raiser with
paper nastic-a mixture which enabled
MIN TO plug up the holes and make the
paper appear SO perfect that it would
pass the eye OF even the best trained
bank clerks.
PROFESSIONAL swindlers sometimes work
2tone, but more often ply their trade in
groups or gangs. One OF the favorite
schemes Is to buy a bank draft raise il
Hno tnen pass II Wherever opportunity Of
iers. The check raiser may be trained
chemist and know thoroughly all the
operations with chemicals, pastel chalks,
aniiine. water colors. magnifying glasses.
pens erasers. stamping and perforating
machines and the finest of cameTs hair
brushes. The first process Is to erase
ihe ngures and the written amount of the
nSaft- After this the paper Is skiiifully
yeated to eliminate every evidence OF
erasure, and then the desired amount is
written In to harmoniZe with the writing
ana character of the original. Most pro-
fessional check raisers are caught wiihin
Few months of their crime. They have
tar more trouble in dodging the penalty
of the law than they have in deceivins
the banks.
Evening star., 1911-01-07

PILES CURED IN Q TO - DAys.
Your druggist will refund money II Paso Clnt-
ment falls to cure any ease OF Jtchtng blind
aie'"- - !'re'ru'iinG Pills in Z 10 IL days soc.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
Next Step Is
to Open Account.

ually there are two or three inspections
before the work is pronounced perfect.
After the paper passes muster with the
gang one of them must take the paper to
some bank and open an account. The
others go with him and act as pickets.
On reaching the selected town they sepa-
rate. register at different hotels and do
not meet again until the game has been
won or lost
The man chosen to LAY down the
paper first makes the acquaintance OF
some real estate dealer or other promi-
nent citizen. He assumes to be figuring
In some important deal. in which said
real estate man or prominent citizen
hopes to make q commission. The SWIM
dler displays his draft when he thinks it
safe to do so and gets an Identification
which enables him to place 1t on deposit
in one Of the banks. He and the fellow
members Of his gang have a system of
prearranged signals which usually en-
ables them to escape. even IL the bank
teller Is inclined to be suspicious.
1t 70 comparatively easy for the profess
S1onal swindler to prove an alibi. One of
his favorite method is to have a con-
federate GO to hotel and register IN the
Evening star., 1911-01-07
MAY ENTIRELY CHANGE
ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION
Experiments With italian Sci.
entist's Invention Show
Wonderful Results. !.
'oreign Correspondence Of The Star.
PARMA, December 81. 19l.

PARMA, December 81. 1910.
A young Italian scientist. Prof. Felica
Jacoviello Of the University Of Parma,
has invented, and recently tested with
great success, an appliance that seems
destined to revolutionize wireless teeg.
raphy and the transmission Of electrical
force.
Though difficult to explain, II may b
said that the appliance is constructed with
the object of Transforming ordinary cleo.
trio currents into Hertzian waves. and exs
pertinent has proved the power OF the
appliance SO to transform 30 per cent OF
any current. 1t consists Of an arc In
which two tubes of metal. varying &C,
cording to the force of the current to be
transformed, are substituted for the car
bon points. Currents varying in strength
from 1900 to 100000 volts have been
dealt with successfully.
The most interesting part OF the arc Is
a strong stream Of air, or sometimes gas.
that is forced through the two metal
tubes of the arc In such manner that
the molecules of the air, or gas, move in
the same direction as the ions and elec-
irons or electrified particles of air. The
stream of air. or gas, serves TO regulate.
the production of these particles. and to
render the arc capable Of charging and
QlSCudI SIlS Haus ihououho NoieS ~
second into and from an electrostatio
condenser, thus producing Hertzan waves
In continuity.
High Percentage of Energy.
The chief advantages Of this new APP
pliance are that il utilizes a much high-r
er percentage of the transformed electric,
energy than before. and permits the use
of electrostatic condensers only one,
twentieth of the size of those ordinarily
employed. j
The first experiments with the new arc
were made November IL at the arsenal
of Spezia. The wireless telegraph sta
ton at Venice, on the other coast OF
Italy, to which the Hertzian waves were
directed by the Jacovielio instrument. re-
piled Immediately that the signals had
been received with extraordinary force
and clearness. The length OF the waves
generated by the arc is said to be at
present 1900 miles.
The strength of the appliance can be
judged from the fact that steel plates OF
armor and other metals rapidly melt in
the ne:ghborhood of the arc. SO that elec-
tric furnaces now can be constructed
more simply and much more cheaply than
before.
For purposes Of illumination the arc is
equally valuable Glass tubes and globes,
from which air has been extracted, yield
a bright light when placed In the path Of
the Hertzian waves. The railway station
square at Parma shortly will be lighted in
this manner.
Evening star., 1911-01-07
NO VOTE ON RULES
FitzgeraId's Threat to Break
Quorum Secures Delay.
RENEW FIGHT MONDAY
Committee Discharge Amendment
Causes Trouble in House.
PLAN TO CHECKMATE SENATE
Leaders Indorse Hill Resolution
Bearing on Amendments to
Tariff Bills.
PLAN TO CHECKMATE SENATE

The special meeting of the House COM
mittee on rules today broke up in row.
And it was all over the committee-dis-
charge amendment to the rules, adopted
by insurgent votes at the last session and
put into operation the other day for the
first time.
The meeting was rather warm for a
time and adjourned hastily without
action on the proposition under discus
sion, which was to create two additional
"suspenson'' days for the present ses-
sion, when Representative Fitzgerald of
New York, noting the presence of a bare
quorum, threatened to walk out unless
the proposition to vote on the suspension
day arrangement was dropped at once
He had his way, but the discussion will
be resumed next Monday.
Blocked by Mr.. Mann.
Owing to the astuteness of Represent
ative Mann Of Illinois in blocking the
committee discharge rule with bill
for the revision of the postal regula-
tions, which is of such wondrous length
that strong man couldn't read it in
less than about three legislative days,
there is great deal of concern among
members of the House who have been
accustomed to transacting most of their
legislative business on suspension days.
But as suspending and discharging are
now scheduled for the same day, with
dischargfng having the right of way,
it is certain that unless some action
is taken by the House not a single
measure can he rushed through under
suspension Of the rules from now until
the end Of the session.
Representative Smith of TSwa made the
proposition that January 10 and Febru-
a
pension days. Mr.. Fitzgerald objected
and. after a war of words threatened to
walk out. Then the subject was tenn
porarily dropped. 1t will probably be re-
newed with increased vigor Monday.
Discipline for the Senate.
The rules ruction followed a hearing
before the committee on the concurrent
resolution introduced by Representative
Hill of Connecticut providing for joint
rule of the two houses relating to amend
ments to revenue bills.
The mere fact of the holding of the
hearing, is construed by members of the
House as an announcement to the Senate
that the House will stand for it's preroga-
tives hereafter, and will question the
Senate's right to amend revenue bills
when such amendments are not germane.
The resolution provides that no amend
ments laying duties or taxes on articles
not 1nciuuSu III the Dill dS received IFOHl
the House shall be in order. neither to
the bill as received in the Senate nor as
amendments to the Senate amendments,
when they may be considered in the
House.
Mr.. Hill said today that "the people
will never consent to another tariff
law passed by the House under the
operation of the previous question.
which shuts off the right of amendments;
and / give notice now that / will never
Vvrfa f0y. 0Off lon TO
tariff bill through the House, to be
amended by the Senate, which amend
ments cannot be voted on. but must be
accepted from a conference commit
<ao'
Evening star., 1911-01-07
CARRY ENGLISH COAL.
UNDER ITALIAN FLAG
Government Plans to Save Ten
Million Dollars Now
Paid British.
,reign Correspondence of The Star.
ROME December 30.


ROME. December 80 1910.
A bill which has just been discussed by
the Italian chamber of deputies dealing
with the transport OF English coal for
the Italian state railways and the navy
is good example of the kind Of protec-
tionism with which the British nation is
faced. Italy is one of Englands best
customers in purchasing coal, of which
she consumes nearly 100000 tons a
year. representing an expense Of about
SIC, 900, coo, so that she comes Immediately
after France. who purchases 1852 $50
tons, and Germany, who takes a few
hundred thousand tons more than Italy.
The kingdom is obliged, as the bill says,
to submit to this foreign importation un-
til she is able to substitute, to quote the
words OF Count Cavour, ''the white coal
for the black" referring to Italy's riches
In water power.
Importation Has Increased.
So far this Importation, however. has
constantly increased. the rise in the last
six years having been of 100000 tons.
For the present the Italians cannot avoid
buying England's coal, but they have
awakened to the fact that the transport
Of it costs them about $2O,OOO.OOO annu-
ally including freight duties and loading
and unloading, which also goes almost
entirely into English pockets, as the coal
steamers and tramps used for this service
almost exclusively fly the British flag.
Italy has. therefore, come to the con-
clusiOn that If she cannot help present.
ing England with $3O,OOU,OOO a year for
the coal she may at least save what she
now pays to British shippers, and the
object of the bill is that of intrusting an
italian company with the transport of
7,OOO,OOO tons Of coal yearly, Of which
6.OOO,OOO is for the railways and 1000
for the navy.
Contract for Ten Years.
The contract will be made for ten years,
beginning July l, 1912, and the company
will be obliged to supply only Italian
steamers, eight OF which must be built
after the date of the present bill, must
have a speed of ten miles an hour and
be capable Of carrying at least 5000 tons
of coal. besides what Is needed for the
use Of the ship herself The other steam
ers must not have been more than ten
cargo from the following harbors: Car
diff. Penarth. Barry. Port Talbot or New
port alexandra docks)
On the other hand, the Italian govern
ment will pay the company a yearly SUBJ
sidy Of $6O,OOO plus $40 for every ton
of coal carried during the first five years,
the freight charges of the following five
years being nxed on the average of Car
diff rates. In addition the Italian gov
ernment will pay the insurance of the
coal, while the company will have to
undertake the insurance Of the chips.