1. An impression with ink from type, plates, etc.; printed characters collectively; printed matter; as, small print; the print is illegible. 2. Anything printed from an engraved plate or lithographic stone---- Mr. MALCOMSON. I agree with you that the courts might hold that that was sufficient to cover it--that the word "print" would cover a lithograph, and I should contend so before the court; but it is this late decision which leads me to feel that, in so much as it is not going to do any harm, why should we leave it out? Why should we leave it out? The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other gentlemen to be heard now? Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. A. Beverly Smith, speaking for the Reproductive Arts Copyright League, and particularly for certain groups of lithographers, simply desired me to say that he thinks also that the word "lithographs" should go in, but that it should go in in a separate subsection, and should be coupled with the word "posters." On the other hand, I ought, to complete the record of this day, to call your committee's attention to a communication from Mr. Ansley Wilcox, which has been presented to the committee. He was here in behalf of an establishment that gets out lithographs, and particularly posters, and he was at the conference particularly concerned about the protection of that material. He writes, and his letter has already gone down to be put in the record, or I should read it; but substantially this, that he considers the specifications of those subsections as very liberal and fully covering all that he is interested in. This is simply for your information. Mr. A. BEVERLY SMITH. May I correct the statement of the Librarian, Mr. Chairman? I do not think it is necessary that the word "lithographs" should go in there. Mr. PUTNAM. I beg pardon, then. I thought you did. Mr. A. BEVERLY SMITH. I agree with the statement made to you by the Librarian regarding consultation with your legal advisers as to whether or not it should be put in. If you decide to put it in, I think it would be much wiser not to couple it with prints and pictorial illustrations at all, but to make a separate classification. And if you do decide, after consultation, to put lithographs in, I think that that will also require the word "posters" to be put in. I personally do not believe that either one is necessary to be defined separately. (Thereupon the committee adjourned until to-morrow, Friday, June 8, 1906, at 10 o'clock, a.m.) COMMITTEE ON PATENTS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _Friday, June, 8, 1906_. The committee met at 10 o'clock a.m., conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents. Present: Senators Kittredge (chairman), Smoot, and Latimer; Representatives Currier, Campbell, Chaney, McGavin, Webb, and Southall.