But I do not think that the selfishness of the interests which are opposed to the said new legislation, and who are now fully aware that it is proposed, extends beyond a rightful effort to prevent their own extinction. In my opinion the manufacturers of mechanical music controllers or records are willing to pay a fair and reasonable royalty to composers of music which they use, or to other owners of copyrights for musical compositions, but this must be provided for otherwise than by an enactment which will give rise to the evils attending the said paragraph, section 1 (g) of the bill. That paragraph should be eliminated and other parts of the bill corresponding with this paragraph, and there should be substituted for it, probably at some other more appropriate part of the bill, a provision like the following: "Any person, firm, or corporation who shall make, use, or sell, or let for hire, any device, contrivance, or appliance especially adapted in any manner whatsoever to reproduce to the ear the whole or any material part of any work published and copyrighted after this act shall have gone into effect, shall pay to the author or composer of such work a fair and reasonable royalty to be determined according to the market price for such or similar royalties. "And the author or composer of the work so used shall have the same remedies for the recovery from such person, firm, or corporation of such royalty or royalties as is provided in this act for the recovery of damages for the infringement of copyright. "And after the amount of such royalty or royalties shall have been ascertained and become due by express contract between the parties, or shall have been ascertained and adjudged to be due by any circuit court of the United States, and is not paid, then the author or composer shall have the same remedy by injunction against such person, firm, or corporation, as is provided in this act in cases of the infringement of a copyright." It is believed that such an enactment would give to the composers who have appeared before your committees all the rights and remuneration which is due them, and at the same time will defeat the unlawful combination which exists and is hereinbefore referred to.