Mr. PUTNAM. They are not bracketed in the official bill. They were left out of the bill as introduced. Mr. SULLIVAN. I respectfully request that section 13 of the bill as presented to the Representatives taking part in the conferences here be revised in the Senate bill so as to include the paragraph that is bracketed in the draft of the bill sent out to the delegates. Mr. PUTNAM. Well, Mr. Sullivan, I want you to be clear about this. The bill as introduced into Congress did not contain those brackets. That was a draft sent out some time ago, and the bill as introduced in Congress has not those brackets. Mr. SULLIVAN. (after examining the official copy of the bill). That is on page 9; that is all right. Mr. CURRIER. It is right as it is, as we understand? Mr. SULLIVAN. It is right as it is. That is all right, then; we have no objection, Senator, to the bill as it stands. I only wish to say at this time that that bill has already passed the lower branch of Congress. Mr. CURRIER. You refer to section 13? Mr. SULLIVAN. Yes, sir; and Representative Currier knows it has also passed his committee. We respectfully submit the resolution to your hands, and I desire to be heard on it to-morrow. Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Chairman, with your permission Mr. G. Howlett Davis, of New York, desires to be heard as representing inventors who have allied themselves particularly to these devices for the reproduction of music to the ear. Mr. Davis's suggestion was that as the composers had been heard as the creators of the music in the first instance, one who is engaged as an inventor in the production of these devices should first be heard on the other side. Mr. S. T. CAMERON. May it please the committee, Mr. Chairman, I am one of those who are representing the interests of the talking machines of the country. The CHAIRMAN. Whom do you represent? Mr. CAMERON. I represent the American Graphophone Company of New York. The CHAIRMAN. Do you desire to be heard by the committee? Mr. CAMERON. Yes, sir. I wish to say at this point, however, sir, that with all due respect to the Librarian, it would seem to me that there is no good reason existing why he should depart from the mode of procedure in connection with these talking machines that has been taken in all the rest of the bill--that is, that those who are the proponents for the changes in this bill that are of a very radical nature and very radically different from existing law should present to the committee their reasons for such changes, before hearing from the opponents of the bill.