Mr. MYERS. I cannot hope by any words of mine to add to the force; the arguments of my colleague on the ComPatents [Mr. Bromwell] if the House has listened to them, and I believe the majority of the members here have done so. But I rise for the purpose of endeavoring to answer the several owho have urged objections to the passage of this bill. And 1st, I will say to my legal friendfrom NewYork [Mr. HALE] that the language of the agreement to which he refers in relation to a renewal will not cover a congressional extension or new grant by Congress. At least so I read the decisions of the SCOTUS on this subject in Gib son vs. Cook, Pitts vs. Hall, and Bloomer vs. McQuervan. Even if it would have done so the bill before us disposes of that question and recxtends the patent for the benefit of General Harvey's heirs only. 2ndly, I will say in answer to my distinguished colleague, [Mr. STEvens] that the applications to which he and the chairman of the ComWays&Means [Mr. MoRRILL] have referred, for a reduction of the tax upon wood screws, related to other articles and not to those made by these identical machines. I would again call the attention of the House to the fact that Thomas W. Harvey produced a series of machines for the purpose of manufacturing wood screws; that the right to use a majority of those machines has gone to the public, which now enjoys the undisputed benefitof them; that he expended $100,000 of his own money, and borrowed $70,000 more in order to perfect this series of inventions; that what has been referred to by several gentlemen here, in the paper which was sent to the Clerk's desk to be read, vaguely hinted at in order to produce opposition on the part of this House, was simply an agreement between the party to whom the heirs, in consequence of that loan to their father, gave the Patent Office extension and the American Screw Company. That agreement had nothing whatever to do with general Harvey or his heirs; those heirs merely furnished evidence in regard to the value of said inventions. If the gentlemen had read the whole case they would have ascertained that fact. I say to this House that General Harvey expended $170,000 to perfect these machines; and his heirs honorably carried out the promise made by their father, by assigning the extension of the patent for the purpose of refunding the money borrowed by F. And now because these monopolists write here and try to defeat the congressional grant to these deserving heirs, distinguished gentlemen rise upon this floor and argue that somebody else has made money out of these inventions, and therefore the inventor and his heirs must go unrewarded. I do not suppose of course that such is the object of the opponents of this bill, but the direct if consequence of their opposition if successful will be to favor these very monopolists against whom they seem so zealous. This House has several times granted extensions of patents, though that is a thing which the ComPatents have seldom asked. Extensions aref.by Congress upon the exPress idea and assertion, and upon no other ground, that an inventor or his heirs have not Fbeen p.roperly compensated and desire further sufficient to enable them to reap the ruits of their genius. That is the case here. One word more; there are 200 different sizes of these wood screws manufactured. In order to make them, each one requires a machine for heading, one for shaving, one for nicking, and 2 for threading, as the latter process takes twice as long as the others. herefore it requires an immense amount of machinery to carry on this manufacture; and an immense capital, as shown, was requisite to perfect and carry it on. Now, because the American Screw Company obtained the control of the business from the party to whom these heirs honorably assigned the extension of these patents, because they have reaped the benefit of it, it is proposed that, with their im mense capital, they shall retain the monopoly they now have, and prevent the heirs of this inventor from receiving from Congress the same consideration that has been awarded to meritorious inventors in like cases. Here the hammer fell]