| Show BRUE TO BE LONG ONE difference of opinion manifested among legislators as to interstate ter state commerce BILL DRAWN BY PRESIDENT chief executive said to have given the measure his personal Pec tonal attention projected court of patent at appeals Appe alThe tha prel dents dent tour I 1 washington there la Is every inalea t ton ion that the debate in the senate on the amendments to the interstate commerce act will be tons long drawn out and that it will be marked by many of the acrimonious features of the tariff debate of last spring and summer cummer the alignment of senators senn tors on the measure will adt he be exactly the kameas that on the customs but the ma bority of who will he be in opposition to the bill as it was introduced will be the senators who fought anany 0 of f the provisions of tile payne aldrich bill it Is doubtful it there ever was in into congress ft a bill upon which there were exactly so nanny many diverse opinions as there aro are upon this measure which the senate now has under consideration of course the he measure affects largely the work of the members of the interstate commerce commission and yet the members of the commission themselves are at variance in their views as to the eMcie efficiency ncy of the bill in n some of its particulars tic ulars the amendments were prepared in the first instance Ina tanca by a committee appointed by president tatt taft every one of tho the members of which was a lawyer of high standing then mr taft went over the measure himself bringing to bear on it all tits his judicial training the cabinet took it ft up tip and sanctioned it and said it ft was proof against attack in the courts experts disagree there never was such a case perhaps of supposed experts disagreeing on the efficiency of a bill there la Is a provision in tho the proposed legislation which allows the railroads to enter into if raffle agreements on rates the agre agreements indents to be submitted to the interstate ter state commerce com merca commission who shall hall be allowed to pass only on the question no as to whether the rate as an average is exorbitant some members of the interstate commerce commission declare that this takes away much from the proposition as aa advanced originally by the odore odora the tha former president agreed that the is railroads should bo be allowed to ninke traffic raffle pools but said that the interstate commerce coln coh minnion should be riven given the power to nullify them provided it was shown that the pools were contrary to what might be considered public policy other members of the commission say that as aa long as they have tho lite power to get tit at the rate that to la all that la Is necessary and all in which the people are interested mr taft and his bis lawyer members of the cabinet hold bold to this view and seem to believe that they have smoothed the path through I 1 many difficulties hy by giving the rall rail 1 roads the pooling right under the law president tatt taft believes that thai appeal cases bo be put pill into the hands bands of the attorney generals office for defense because he has implicit confidence in the ability and sincerity of the law officers connected with tho the cabinet department moreover he is averse to multiplying the legal departments of the government for FOP court of patent appeals for years tho the lawyers of the country particularly the patent lawyers have endeavored to get congress to pass pasa a bill to establish it a united stats court of patent appeals senator beveridge recently introduced such auch a bill in the senate and the judicial committee through senator brown of nebraska has haa lust just reported it favorably tho the day that this bill was reported to tho the senate III it happened that frederick P fish an eastern attorney and who Is called the father ather of the proposed legislation wits arguing IL caso case in the supreme court only a few yards away anway from the th senate chamber mr air fish teu ten years ago began a cam flan for a court of patent appeals and he has been assisted in tho the work by br edmund wetmore of now new york vork at one time president of the th american bar association and by other prominent n nent mt attorn attorneys eve in the work of attempt ins ing to secure the passage cassago of the measure in discussing tho the proposed bill mr fish hall had something to say about the tha patent system of the united states and he gave solve interesting In information forina concerning what might be called tho the patent industry of the united states and tho the inventive genius fentus of the american people the patent laws lawa are TS admirable said mr air floh elsh th ual united t ed states abates has tha fl ineat billit patent all cyst system em in the world word ith under the old bralit system which prevails devau largely throughout europe today to day lay parliament rewarded a roan man who brought business into the country lie ile might have picked up the idea in france or germany or anywhere else elite but the prime purpose of the law was to re ward him film for increasing the business bueI neBs of 0 the kingdom the united states very wisely established the principle that its ita citizens citizen should be once encourage u ragel to think mink we granted a man the he ex elusive right for fir 17 years to an invention ol 01 his own on tho theory that tf it the people were encouraged to invent the business would take care ot of itself an ali a result we were ere made a nation of inventors and wo we have outstripped the world in the field of mechanics yet we have no system today whereby inventors or the owners of 0 patents can be surely spared the enormous enor moua costs coal a and loss losi of time incident to endless litigation I 1 would venture to say aay from roy my own experience that more than halt half the tha patents which the people have tried to use usa have been in litigation at their expiration pi ration the period consumed in litigation of co course comes out of tile the life of the patent and every month of delay la Is just so eo much loss not only to the owner but to the lio pu public bit who be would get the benent benefit of the patent wo we have industrial industry 91 concerns in thil that spend from to a year developing patents if the validity of these patents could 4 fl assured promptly not only would the gain to their owners bo be great but tile HIP value to tile hie people of the united state strafes it would mould run into uncountable millions salaries not adequate with issues issner as great as tills this at stake it would seem that congress should look broadly at the ho question and establish the court on a generous basis I 1 believe B R salary of for the chief justice ju tc tin anil for the associate justices la Is not too great tf it wo we aro are to hive have a n court of patent appeals composed of the ablest judges in n the he country the present bill provides salaries of 0 and respectively this appears to bo be a large remuneration but it la Is not under the circumstances I 1 fear it Is not adequate to enable the estall establishment if all m chit of tho the court couri on a proper basis baals presidents forthcoming tour president tatt taft who la Is apparently extremely fond of 0 travel not so much his friends say any nit travels sake bake but because he has a thought that he ought to give to the pen people ale personally and by word vord ot of mouth his ideas of government will start from washington march 15 on on an eight days journey it Is in perfectly true that an outline of the tha presidents program aa ais already prepared shows that as aa fir as aa texts are concerned he be has chosen only one great legislative subject on which tc t speak but tf if precedent counts tor for anything thing ho he probably will say a great many things concerning matters mattera of 0 legislative moment while talking on announced subjects that have no particular bearing on legislative matters the president will go from washington to now new york where he be will address a meeting of 0 the members of the tha society of foreign wars lie ile will have something to say bay about patriotism in time of war and this naturally will load lead to a discussion of that higher patriotism which induces men to talce take an active interest in their coun arys affairs in time ot of peace in chicago Clil cago the president will address the newspaper men inen the irish fellowship club and a great meeting of persons persona interested in conserving the natural resources of the country this conservation meeting Is the only one at which 1 mr tatt taft as far as hla his announcements go has intimated that ho he Is to speak on a subject which Is before congress for legislation firm friend of conservation i lie localism localise lo calise canso of the widespread interest in the ballinger pinchot inquiry and the charges and countercharges counter charges that I 1 have been made by tho the men who are involved in the trouble it t Is said that mr taft fears the people will get the idea idaa that he Is not the same firm advocate of conservation that he once was the prebi presidents dents friends say it was because of hla his absolute desire that the natural resources should be saved that he separated hla his messages to congress and gave one over wholly to the causo causa of conservation this atila mes ange was eert by itself so go that then would he be no other matter to draw the attention of congress away front froni the prime subject which the t president wanted it to consider I 1 tho the president will remain two days in albany as a guest of gov If uglieR after leaving the capi capital till of now new york state mr tail taft will go to now new haven to attend a meeting of the yale corporation po ration of which ho he la is a member then he fie will go to providence ithone island to speak to tho the manufacturing jew jewelers elers and from there he will go to new york to deliver two speeches one before a republican gathering at which his speech probably will have a strong political tone the president will iw be at hla his white conaw desk again at noon on march i 23 1 I Z to ta take up tip once wore his struggles gRes with congress cong congress Vess GEORGE CLINTON |
