. American engineer and railroad journal . s may possibly be able to keep the work from falling behind to a great-er degree than it is at present, although that is by no means sure. The number of applications on hand and awaiting actionJanuary 1, 1893, was 9,011, an increase, as comparedwith July 1, 1891, of 100 cases—that is, the office had fallenbehind to that degree in a year and a half. This comparisonseems to show that the present examining force of the PatentOffice is about adequate to the performance of the work as itcomes in. It really lacks adequacy in a more substantial de-g
. American engineer and railroad journal . s may possibly be able to keep the work from falling behind to a great-er degree than it is at present, although that is by no means sure. The number of applications on hand and awaiting actionJanuary 1, 1893, was 9,011, an increase, as comparedwith July 1, 1891, of 100 cases—that is, the office had fallenbehind to that degree in a year and a half. This comparisonseems to show that the present examining force of the PatentOffice is about adequate to the performance of the work as itcomes in. It really lacks adequacy in a more substantial de-gree, for a large part of the examining corps has been workedovertime since October 1, 1892, by special order. It oughtnot to be necessary to force the examining corps to work over-time. It is believed that no like number of men in the world,assembled in one body, has to perform duties as delicate anddifficult as those which are performed by the examining corpsof the Patent Office. There are 199 of these examiners. They have before them,. LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE MANCHESTER & LIVERPOOL in 1831 nv R. Stephenson & Co., Nevcastle-on Tyne. Now that the business of the other is radically dimin-ishing, and in the nature of things must soon become a smallmatter and so remain, while the business of the Patent Officesteadily increases and must continue so to do, the attention ofCongress is earnestly called to this mode of relieving the Pat-ent Office from its great trouble. In this connection it is fairto say that the entire structure now occupied in part by thePatent Office was planned as a Patent Office, and its construc-tion begun under an act approved July 4, ls:ifi. Hundreds ofthousands of dollars of patent fees have been incorporatedinto that building, and inventors have now lying in the UnitedStates Treasury more than $4,000,000, not raised under thetaxing power of Oongress, but realized under that clause ofthe Constitution which says that— in round numbers, 40,0
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