The CHAIRMAN (after further consultation with the other members of the committee). We will hear you, Mr. Walker, one hour to-morrow morning, if we are unable to reach you to-day, with the privilege of submitting in writing your views if you so desire. Mr. WALKER. If the chairman will allow me to make the suggestion, if I were to be heard to-morrow for an hour, that would probably cut off other gentlemen who would wish to speak much shorter than that, and it would be very convenient for me, if the committee is to sit at all on Saturday, to hear other gentlemen on Friday and let me speak on Saturday. The CHAIRMAN. If we are compelled to hold a session on Saturday, we will hear you on that day; but we hope that the gentlemen who are present to present their views to the committee will finish in such time as will permit you to have your hour to-morrow morning. Mr. WALKER. Then, is it understood that I am to speak first to-morrow morning? The CHAIRMAN. I think not. Mr. CURRIER. There are some other gentlemen here who will want five or ten minutes. The CHAIRMAN. Inasmuch as you prefer to go over until Saturday, if convenient to the committee, I should think that the members from out of town and the other gentlemen here should be first to address the committee. Mr. WALKER. That is very agreeable to me. Mr. SOUSA. I sincerely trust, Mr. Chairman, that in Mr. Walker's discussion it will not be permitted to discuss the copyright of the past. We are not after that. We want a copyright of the future. If he will talk about things that will be for the benefit of the future, I think you should give him the time; but if he is going into a discussion of what was done a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years ago, we do not want it. [Laughter.] That is the past; we want the future.