This is, gentlemen, an excellent opportunity to show fair play to a body of citizens who have been working at a disadvantage and fighting for years for their just rights and for proper and adequate protection from the Government. I conclude by appealing most earnestly and respectfully to the honorable gentlemen of the committee to do their utmost to forward the passage of this bill, and I am convinced that they will earn everlasting thanks and gratitude for creating a law which will earn for them recognition and will carry their name to history for having worked for the advancement of an industry which has been sorely oppressed by piracy and injustice. Believing that my most humble indorsement of this new law and the desire of the firm of Jos. W. Stern & Co., who have authorized me to address this body in their behalf, will soon be upon the statute books protecting copyright, I have the honor to remain, Very respectfully, yours, D. P. LEWANDOWSKI, M.D. 34 EAST TWENTY-FIRST STREET, _New York City_. A. W. ELSON & CO., EDUCATIONAL ART PUBLISHERS, _Boston, June 5, 1906._ HERBERT PUTNAM, Esq., _Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C._ DEAR SIR: As I do not expect to be able to be present at the first hearing of the copyright bill which is now introduced in Congress, I write to ask whether the suggestions that are made on the accompanying sheet can be placed in the hands of the committee. I should like to appear in favor of these suggestions at any subsequent hearing that may be given by the committee on the bill. I have arranged the suggestions in the order of importance from my own particular standpoint. As this may reach you during or after the hearing before the joint committee of the Senate and the House, I have mailed a duplicate of this to the chairman of the committee. Very truly, yours, A. W. ELSON. _Suggestions of additions and amendments to the copyright bill introduced before Congress May 31, 1906, entitled "A bill to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright."_ _Section 5 (subsection J)._--That the words "and negatives" be added after the word "photographs," so that subsection J shall read: "Photographs and negatives." Negatives are made the subject of copyright under the present copyright law, and there seems to be no valid reason why they should be omitted in the new copyright statute. It would very much simplify the copyrighting of all photographic reproductions if negatives were made the subject of copyright, and for the purpose of registration two prints of the negative copyrighted should be filed in the copyright office. I would therefore suggest that the following words be added to section 11, seventh line, after the word "edition," "or if the work be a negative, two prints made directly from it."