The fact that you did not is not to prejudice you in any way, and the fact that you did not participate in the conferences I have myself emphasized to the committee to your advantage, pointing out that these provisions had been inserted without discussion at the conferences by any interest naturally adverse to them. The fact is to your advantage. I earnestly suggest that you avoid giving it a twist such as Mr. Cameron gave it yesterday; I mean by such expression as "star chamber proceedings." We can't let such imputations against the Government stand uncorrected. But we hate to have to divert attention from the main issue in order to correct them. The main issue is the merit of these provisions. We are as anxious as is the committee to know your substantial objections to them. And our interest is absolutely identical with that of the committee in seeing that the objections you show shall have due value and effect. (The following letter was subsequently written by Mr. Putnam, and by direction of the chairman made part of the record:) JUNE 16, 1906. Messrs. CHAIRMEN: In my remarks to the representatives of the talking machine and perforated roll interests at the hearing of June 9 I stated that Mr. Thomae had not been "invited" to the conferences. Of course he was invited or he could not have attended. What I meant was that he was not among those originally invited or in our list of those naturally entitled to be present. I had thought the distinction sufficiently clear from the context; but I find that it was not. The chief purpose of my reference to him and to General Griffin was not, of course, to excuse or explain their presence, but to indicate how readily access to the conference could be secured by a request to the copyright office. Very respectfully, HERBERT PUTNAM, _Librarian of Congress_. The CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEES ON PATENTS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. CURRIER. I wish to say that last winter some time Mr. Griffin, who is interested in one of the perforated-roll concerns, called at the committee room and talked about this matter, and I advised him at that time to see Mr. Solberg and Mr. Putnam. The committee clerk has had some correspondence with him since that time, and other gentlemen connected with that same business, I suppose, have been into the committee room to make inquiries regarding this matter pretty nearly every week for months. Mr. CAMERON. I would like to say that I do not even know who Mr. Griffin is. Mr. CURRIER. He is the vice-president of the General Electric Company. I think he lives in Brooklyn and is connected with some perforated-roll company.