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when the decision of the Supreme Court on the Dick-Henry case was decided. That this decision suddenly set everybody wild, senators and congressmen of both parties called on him or called on the telephone asking him for advice and all desiring immediately to frame a bill for annuling the effect of the Dick decision. [[underline]] Wickersham [[/underline]] and Taft too conferred with him. The former showing his ignorance of the patent situation.  Moore says that [[underline]] Taft [[/underline]] told him that he (Taft) was in sympathy with the minority
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supreme court and in sympathy with the dissenting opinion of Judge Lurton.
He added: Mr. Moore I supposed I knew something about patent law but I see now I do not."
The result of all the turmoil is that Taft urged the framing of special bills and urged Oldfield to go ahead. Then after Oldfield got started Taft urged [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^in^ a special message the creation of a commission and Oldfield did not relish the idea of Taft doing both things which were rather contradictory.
Anyhow Oldfield framed a bill and after seeing the