If we go to a great parade to make negatives, as we did at the Czar's coronation in Russia, we are liable to get more than 500 different negatives, and they all differ in something besides pose and composition. You will see that a clause of that kind will make it absolutely impossible for us to take advantage of it, although any gallery artist could take advantage of it with success and safety. The CHAIRMAN. Have you the form of an amendment which you propose? Mr. REMICH. No. I have not framed any amendment. An exemption of the stereoscopic manufacturers from the $1 fee would be perfectly satisfactory to us. Mr. CURRIER. Not the exclusion of the entire fee? You do not mean that? Mr. REMICH. Not at all; we are perfectly willing to pay our 50-cent fee, although it amounts to a tremendous sum in our business, because we take so many negatives. To show the extent of our business, permit me to say that we have over 17,000 different subjects in stock ready for delivery. We have over 160,000 different negatives at the present time, and are importing them constantly and making them in this country. The CHAIRMAN. The reason I asked the question was because the language here indicates that the exception you propose should be inserted with much care. Mr. REMICH. Yes. The CHAIRMAN. And I will be glad if you will draw your proposed amendment and insert it in the record. Mr. REMICH. It seems to me it is going to be a difficult thing to make an exception. What is the necessity of an advance in the fee? Why is there any necessity for a change of the fee when in England, as I understand it, they charge only a shilling for doing this work, which is one-half of what we pay, and when, in point of fact, we are getting a handsome surplus--as the report of the copyright office shows, over $130,000 profit in the last six years? The office is not intended as a revenue producer. It is simply designed to protect the manufacturing interests of the country by copyright. Of course to the man who is producing a painting or a valuable book which he may sell and obtain in royalties $50,000 on, it does not make any difference. Some men have told me they do not care; they wish the copyright fee could be $75, because larger fees for copyrighting would tend to keep out a lot of fellows. But we have a great big industry which is employing a large number of people which would be ruined by these additional charges. The CHAIRMAN. Your suggestion, then, is to reduce the fee prescribed in section 60 from $1 to 50 cents? Mr. REMICH. Yes; leave it exactly as it is now; yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Were you present at the hearing yesterday? Mr. REMICH. I was not present; no.