Mr. BROMWELL. I will state what I understand to be the facts in this case as set forth by the parties in the memorial which the gen: Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. WASHBURNI had read at the desk. It concerns the origi nal extension by the ComrPatents. No application for an extension of a patent comes before the House except after it has been extended for 21 years. Other extensions are granted by the ComrPatents, and when his power of extension is exhausted the applications for extension come to Congress. Now, sir, as much as the ComPatents may dislike to Press private matters on the time and attention of the House when public business is Pressing, yet when such matters in due course come before the committee it be comes as much their duty to thoroughly invest tigate the claims of the parties and deal justly with them as it would be in the case of a judge. The committee examined most thoroughly the case set forth in the memorial of the parties. The very fact to which the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. WASHBURNI has referred, that under a former transfer the widow and heirs can receive nothing, is a reason why Congress, in accordance with time honored precedents in like cases, should make a further extension to them. As to the assignees, the bill which I have the honor to Present says exPressly that the exten:sion shalf be for the benefit of the widow and heirs alone. Who are these monopolists in NewYork and Massachusetts of whom the Gentfrom Pennsylvania speaks? They are precisely those who, having capital in a business requiring a great outlay of money, have built for themselves vast factories, but they are using perhaps 100 different machines. Of all those machines a greatmany are the invgntion of Thomas W. Harvey, of which the public has reaped the neither the widow nor the heirs. profit from the day they were invented. He could not use his patents during his lifetime for want of means, and they have inured to the benefit of the country. Let me say to gentlemen that it is a great benefit to the that these manufactures should exist, and they have lowered the price of these articles permanently to the consumers throughout the country. This widow and these heirs are not the American Screw Company, and are not the Continental Screw Company. They have no thing in common with those companies. The profits derived from the last extension went to It went to the men who advanced the money to Thomas W. Harvey, by means of which he made the very machinery which the manufacturers now use. The profits of that extension went to reimburse the men who advanced money after Mr. Harvey had spent $100,000 in an attempt to invent and perfect this class of machinery. They are satisfied; but the widow and heirs got nothing. Thomas W. Harvey died without 6pence profit. His widow and heirs are here today; nqt only denied by the monopo lists of these manufacturing companies" any share in the profits arising from Harvey's labors, but in this House they are denied recognition by a portion of the House for a mere imaginary reason, it seems to me, which would send them penniless away, without even a recognition at the hands of their countrymen that the American inventor is in any way to be taken care of.