Mr. CROMELIN. Probably fifteen minutes to half an hour. The CHAIRMAN. With that understanding, Mr. Walker, he will precede you. Mr. WALKER. Yes, sir. And I am to have an hour after that? The CHAIRMAN. Yes. (Thereupon the committee adjourned until to-morrow, Saturday, June 9, 1906, at 10 o'clock a.m.) COMMITTEE ON PATENTS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _Saturday, June 9, 1906_. The committee met at 10 o'clock a.m., conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, pursuant to adjournment. Present: Senators Kittredge (chairman), Clapp, and Smoot; Representatives Currier, Dresser, Bonynge, Campbell, Chaney, McGavin, and Sulzer. Mr. PUTNAM. I have one or two communications, Mr. Chairman, in effect addressed to the committee, which I offer for the record. The CHAIRMAN. They may be inserted. The communications referred to are as follows: WASHINGTON, D.C., _June 8, 1906_. The JOINT COMMITTEE ON PATENTS, _United States Senate and House of Representatives_. GENTLEMEN: On behalf of the Photographers' Copyright League of America, having participated in the conferences called by the Librarian of Congress upon the subject of a new copyright law, we beg to say that we give our hearty assent to the principles of the bill as proposed. Of course, there are minor matters which might have been otherwise drafted by us, but we as cheerfully surrender such particular items, as did many other interests represented at the conference. Copyright legislation has for its basic principle the protection of the property of the copyright owner, and though remedies for damage are manifestly necessary, prevention of injury is the matter of highest importance to the copyright owner. Legislation which acts as a deterrent is the active principle of protection prescribed by the Constitution. For these reasons we believe the pending bill has been framed upon logical and consistent lines which, if enacted into legislation, will doubtless form precedent for other countries. Very respectfully, PHOTOGRAPHERS' COPYRIGHT LEAGUE OF AMERICA. B. T. FALK, _President_. PIRIE MACDONALD, _Delegate_. HORACE PETTIT LAW OFFICES, _Philadelphia, June 1, 1906_. HERBERT PUTNAM, Esq., _Librarian of Congress_, _Washington, D.C._ DEAR SIR: Referring to the proposed bill to amend and consolidate the act respecting copyright, a copy of which has been handed me, with your circular letter regarding suggestions, I would say that I would propose that the following clause be added continuously to the end of section 3: "_And provided_, That nothing herein contained shall apply to sound records made or to be pressed from dies or matrices manufactured prior to the passage of this act."