The other source of complaint has been from persons who had been induced to employ patent attorneys because of their supposed indorsement by Members of Congress and other men prominent in public life. Unfortunately for the patent lawyers of the country and the profession of the practice of patent law, much systematic and deceptive advertising is done by men engaged in the practice of patent law. By some of them the profession has been reduced to a mere trade. Employments have been procured by indefensible means and attorneys have lost the fine sense of the right confidential relationship that should exist between attorney and client. The advertising attorneys seek out and accept almost unlimited employments throughout the country to file vast numbers of claims for substantially the same alleged improvements, making it impossible for the attorneys truly to represent the interests of any of their clients. One extreme case lacks but little of being typical of many cases. A single firm of patent lawyers had on file at one time more than 90 separate and several applications for letters patent on the same simple mechanical contrivance, among which claims it was inevitable that there should be numerous conflicts of interests and overlapping of specifications. It so happens that such practices are indulged in most largely by those patent attorneys who issue the most deceptive and unprofessional advertising matter.

The enactment of this bill into law will not be a complete remedy, but it will, at least, eliminate the one element of deception now practiced by leading prospective clients to believe that their prospective attorneys have the unusual advantage of the personal indorsement and friendship of Members of Congress and other men in high official position.

The proposed statute does not contain a penalty. Existing law as to the rules and regulations that may be adopted and promulgated for the government of the attorneys practicing in the Patent Office are sufficient to enable the Commissioner of Patents, if this bill shell become a law, effectively to put a stop to the practice above referred to and of which complaint is being made. If the Congress shall make the practice unlawful, the rules of practice in the Patent Office will be sufficient to remedy the existing evil.

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FURNISHING TO LOGAN MONUMENT AND VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ALL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS NOW LIVING.

MARCH 16, 1916.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SHERWOOD, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 103.]

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution 103, to furnish to the Logan Monument and Volunteer Soldiers' Memorial Association a list of the names and addresses of all soldiers and sailors now living, report the same to the House with a recommendation that it do pass.

The resolution has the approval of the Commissioner of Pensions, as will appear by the following communication, viz:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS, Washington, February 10, 1916.

Senators JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS and LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

GENTLEMEN: I have been shown a resolution adopted by the last National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, indorsing the work proposed by the Logan Monument and Volunteer Soldiers' Memorial Association, requesting the National Government to furnish to said association, upon its request, the names and addresses of all soldiers and sailors now living, for the use of the association.

Should the Congress, by resolution or otherwise, request a compliance with this action of the Grand Army, we shall be very glad to furnish the information sought. It will not be necessary for us to have any additional force or added appropriation. Very truly, yours,

G. M. SALTZGABER, Commissioner.

Following is a copy of a resolution adopted by the Grand Army of the Republic at its national encampment in 1915, indorsing the resolution, viz:

RESOLUTION.

The Logan Monument and Volunteer Soldiers' Memorial Association has been formed with the following object in view:

To erect a monument to Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, the Black Eagle, commensurate with the greatness of the ideal volunteer soldier of all time, a mark of gratitude from the American people for the priceless services he rendered his country, for the

immeasurable sacrifices he made for it, for his matchless valor in its defense, for his eternal loyalty to its unity, and for his all-embracing love of its sacred liberties.

And beside this, and as a part of it, to build a great memorial dedicated to all the volunteer soldiers of our country.

Into this great memorial building is to be gathered the personal history of every volunteer soldier; those living shall themselves set forth the names and origin of their ancestors, their own recollections of their own services to their country in full, the stories of their lives and their wives, of their own family and their own times down to the present day; and the lives of those who have marched on shall as fully as possible be prepared by their comrades and their families, all to be filed away in form as permanent as human ingenuity can devise, for the use of generations yet unborn.

To the end that no man who has offered his life a sacrifice to his country shall ever be forgotten.

That every woman who in the presence of ever-impending death watched and waited their return and labored endlessly till victory came shall be remembered eternally.

That the descendants of all these and all their coinheritors of liberty may have this exhaustless fountain at which perpetually to renew the spirit of patriotism which founded and preserved this land of liberty.

That the historian of the future may have an inexhaustible mine of golden fact fresh from the very hands that did the deeds of valor that has so uplifted the earth. That the fame and family and name of every soldier of however humble rank shall be made permanent equally with the most exalted: Therefore be it

Resolved by the Grand Army of the Republic in national encampment assembled, That we heartily indorse the great work proposed by the Logan Monument and Volunteer Soldiers' Memorial Association and pledge to them our hearty cooperation and support. And be it further resolved, That we request the National Government to furnish to said association, upon its request, the names and addresses of all soldiers now living, with the company and regiment, for the use of the association.

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RENÉ W. PINTÓ Y WENTWORTH.

MARCH 16, 1916.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be

printed.

Mr. GREENE of Vermont, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 80.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. J. Res. 80), having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

This is a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to permit Mr. René W. Pintó y Wentworth, a citizen of Cuba, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point at the expense of the Government of Cuba.

The Government of Cuba, through its minister at Washington, has requested that this authority be granted and will regard it as an act of courtesy. The President has transmitted the request to Congress in the usual form, as the passage of the resolution would be in accordance with established precedents.

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