Show HISTORIC INSULATORS t FOUND IN THE DOCUMENT ROOM OF THE U S SENATE The Glass Insulators Through Which the Wire was Hun for the First Message Sent by Inventor Morse Washington May ISGIaus insulators through hlrh li < win was run carrying carry-ing lime first mossago over a telegraph line from Washington lo I Baltimore woro r 05itly illsoerrd in tho dociyneut room of the Sonaio by ffonll iuMi who woro taking measurements ci the walls for the purpoFu of puttlmj In new file cis s While it wns known lint Ibo insulators had bceno placed In some portion of lie Senate sldo of tbo building by i Prof Morse their exact location was not known lo any of lImo present employees of the Capitol until discovered as stated H wns In the lnlor of ISIS that Prof Morse after repeated offoris succeeded in securing from Congress an appropriation appropria-tion to eirible him to make the test of his Improvements in telegraphy lie had already al-ready dcmonstraud that he could send rind ecolvo i a message a distance of ten miles through colled insulated wire the fa ft having been satisfactorily domon started a number of tlmc to members of tIme House and Senate who were willing to aid him However iheie was a large number nl doubling The moses who would iiiko no interest In the man or In tho Invention I and I declined I to witruss his toils all of which weie made at the capital cap-ital Prrif Mors < wns fully Lonvlneed in his own mind ihal iho imo could be done over cVim < a much rrei tom dictation In a strilclu Hm In I fart It I was bU belief be-lief thai sppo eoiild he aiiulbllalod in the transmission of inteUlgcnco through i Jils Invenilon 11 1 simply depended upon ihe power of tho Ivmorv used and ibis bo proposed to t overcome by reis of bai terloH whor < > noedod Thut Prof Morse was correct In his belief H carried out by time fact thai messages an known In telegraphy tel-egraphy as ropeaUTh SiroiiK doubts cx lyted however In lie I mind of some jf Iho lawmakers and tbo appropriation I givers ns to the ability of lIme Inventor to do what he salii be could Appropriations Appropria-tions wero not handed out In those days as ihoy are IH W nnd I he voters held their representatives accounlablo for tlulrs acts This fact made Limo lawmakers leery of ghlng tho ipproprlatlon bo cause It might have been 1 regarded is a useless waste of public funds and gIve encouragemenl and aid to an Invention I which appeared lo borne a little moro than tIme delusion of mosmcrlsm Among those who took an active InUrost In s1 curing Imo appropriation was lion John 1 Kennedy of Maryland nnd I tJml George Ferris of New York and after laboring from 1SGS to 1S43 a bill appropriating SA fV was passed by tIme House by a vote of VJ to 33 To become a law It required tho t concurrence of the Senate and the auction of time President Tbo records show that tIme bill passed the IIuuso on tin 23rd of February and while Ir Is said that Prof Morse anticipated no yb lo lout opposition In the Senate t Ihal body would adjoin on the 5id of Mur < h and it Is doubtful If the bill could be ivachn on the calendar before adjournment m rio trader lie mlos no bill could bn mu kii fnmi Us regular order During lln last few day of lie session Pi of Mure haunted tIme halls and galloiy of tlu m Senate Sen-ate cud out the nftornoon of the I last day ho hceanu discouraged and felt eorvln d that ho would have to wait until tin nexi Coiigrosi With a sad heart he tea tbo Capitol and wont to his boarding house arid to his room whore bo remained until next morning when It was his Intention In-tention to takt a Irnlu for Now York where ho Intended to r sumc his uuk IM tin artist His pluns however wero not curried out for Just before ho ymis nady lo p go to tin depot be received a call fr ni Miss Annie KllKWorth daughter of tlc CommHsionor uf Patents who said jihe luid called to congratulate him upon tbv passage of bin bill Prof Morse rould scarcely IvJlovo I lie young lady when sli < > told him tat the bill bad passed tIme in ale only a few mlnulfs before adjoin monl and tbat she had a lunl her fatbcrM permission t < i convoy to him the Kid news Mlns Kllsworth was promised iv tbo lniUor that she oould synd tb first message over the lougdls unco line u pivmlM which was fulfilled With llu I necessary muiiey at his dls posil Prof Morsu at onoo bo an tin work of ronsiruothm llm line lo Hnlll I nor tlrsl expTlniontlnc wllb an uudrr grouiul syrum which did nol work t < it IsfaoOrlly nnd was soon abandoned Th overheadwin wore tin n strung touchIng touch-Ing Baltimore at tbc oUIco of tho Mount lao i > pot noortlmr luslrumcnis beini iilaced there and In tho I Supreme oouit room In time Cnpltol I here was llulo delay de-lay In making satisfactory tests of tbo line I and whMi oil was in readiness tho lath oC May 1Sl1Mis KINworUi was MOIII for lo come to Ito I Capitol and sin promptly rc ponded She wrote for traits missionthe words Whnl hath ci < Wrouuhl tho lli > t furma moysugo ov r sent over a tolograpblc wire and whl h vas pio < orve < l nit is now In the possrs olon of tIme fonnectloul Historical sn Naturally the I lino did not do a sufficient busbies to make it a pnvlng ono or oviu yolfmislnlnlng and during1 tm I von r following fol-lowing Its I loumiiilCt lull Proi Morso askol 1 an appropriation uf W from Congress u for ilh continued malntomuicc and lu also renewed his application 1 10 become iho SOlO iiosseasor of lelegrnph In time UnlUd Stales Tho former was granted but the latter was denied Strange to I say Prof Morse experienced much dlf llculty In Dotting csvpltnliatP Interest in lib Invention but tlnallv Amos Kendall I former JJ j imuslerineml bocamo jyn l elated wllh him and it was not long bi i loiv lines woro evSendod and ellles uiilii d I by wlr and money went Into ibe poikt of tho invotitor and bis associate |