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bill prepared by Moore fused both together,[[strikeout]] altering them in with the well [[/strikeout]] which made the rather incongruous bill ^on^ which [[strikeout]] the [[/strikeout]] hearings were held.
Moore says that he has run the patent office free from politics, was not responsible for the incongruities of the Oldfield bill, succeeded in increasing salaries of the examiners and in increasing general effeciency, notwithstanding the ever increasing volume of work by the increasing number of patents  He also succeeded in convicting the guilty in the Heany case. Succeeded
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in negociating a reciprocity treaty with Germany and negociations were pending with other countries. He also succeeded in establishing treaties with South American republics relative American Trade Marks etc.
He told me that if [[underline]] Wilson [[/underline]] intends to remove him all
what he asks is to be permitted to finish his pending work for the benefit of the [[strikeout]] office a [[/strikeout]] country and this will take him 6 months more.
I assured him that I would present the case to the [[underline]] Inventors guild in [[/underline]] the way he himself had explained it to me.