Mr. DAVIS. No, sir; I want the Constitution to stand as it is. It is not the construction Mr. Sousa puts on this word "writing" therein; it is not the construction that I put on it; but I followed this matter down, as an inventor. Every decision that has ever been made in this country and England, as I read it, has limited that word "writing" to mean some visible and readable writing; not the mere making of a wave in the air. If I invent improvements in wireless telegraphy, the Government does not grant me anything but the mechanical means of doing that, or the method. It does not give me exclusive right to use God's free air and vibrate it. For instance, we will imagine Mr. Sousa facing an audience of ten thousand persons and behind him one hundred skilled musicians who, upon the movement of Mr. Sousa's baton perform in melodious concord upon one hundred different musical instruments. We will, for illustration, as audiences do without suggestion, forget the inventors who evolved the orchestral musical instruments and without which Sousa's band would be a nonentity, and take under consideration only one of the inventors who have formed part of the audience which has been enraptured. After the performance the thought occurs to many that it would be a blessing to mankind if such music as they had heard could be reproduced at will for their own pleasure and for that of those who are in remote sections of the world and for those who are too poor to pay for even the lowest-priced seat. One of the inventors present determines that he can produce the great desideration to practice, and from that moment commences to evolve in his mind thousands of different apparatus which appear to him feasible for the full achievement thereof. After years of experimenting he is ready to test a machine which, in some of its structural features, resemble that of the human organism. The inventor's machine is set up within the range of the air waves, set in vibration by the instruments of Sousa's band, and which air waves are escaping into space to be lost to man forever. The ear-like diaphragm of the instrument is impinged by and set in motion, and through connecting means resembling the human oricular bones and nerves there is engraved upon a sensitive surface not far unlike the material matter of the human brain a record of every minute vibration of all the one hundred instruments.