Inasmuch as the report of the office shows that there is a good handsome surplus of cash received, more than enough to pay for all the expense of maintaining the Copyright Office, and in addition to that some 213,000 objects, which the Librarian says are of great value to the Nation--books, paintings, etc.--and in view of the small profit in the manufacture of our goods, and the fact that in the conduct of our business we have to make long-term contracts with general agents who handle our goods, selling them over the entire world, and that our contracts have been made for a long term of years, this 100 per cent advance upon our class of goods would practically put us out of business. Mr. CHANEY. Suppose we except those views? Mr. REMICH. I have no objection to that. You will see that they have tried to modify this provision somewhat by a section at the bottom of the twenty-fifth page of the conference report, in which they say---- Mr. CURRIER. The thirty-eighth page of the bill, gentlemen. Mr. REMICH. The thirty-eighth page of the bill, in which they say: _Provided further_, That only one registration at one fee shall be required in the case of several volumes of the same book or periodical deposited at the same time, or of a numbered series of any work specified in subsections H, J, K, and L of section 5 of this act-- Which includes our class of products-- where such series represents the same subject with variances only in pose or composition, and the items composing it are deposited at the same time under one title with a view to a single registration. As a lawyer, I suggest that would inject a dangerous element into our business, if we tried to copyright a series of pictures which we claimed only differed from each other in pose, and we should have more litigation on our hands in a month than you could shake a stick at. It would ruin any stereoscopic view concern in a little while. As I suggested in our conference, that clause would apply satisfactorily to gallery work where a man, for instance, took my distinguished friend, the Representative from my district, Mr. Currier, in a gallery, and took a side view, a front view, a view standing up, a view sitting down, a view with his chin turned up, and a view with his nose turned out. In such a case there would be no change save in pose. But we send artists all over the world. We had an artist in the Japanese army during this war, and with the Russian army, and in the South African war, and in Cuba, and in the Boxer war. Our negatives are largely snapshots of moving objects and things. We may get one distinguished general in one snapshot, the next negative we make will show another distinguished general.