Mr. CROMELIN. Mr. Chairman, we hope to file briefs in addition to the oral statements. Mr. CURRIER. As far as the House committee is concerned there is no expectation that there will be a report of this bill at this session of the Congress. Mr. CROMELIN. Will the gentleman be good enough to state that positively on behalf of the committee, so that the interests that ought to be represented here to-day, and whose representatives must remain away, can be satisfied on that point? Mr. CURRIER. I can state it most positively, as far as the House is concerned. Mr. CROMELIN. I thank you very much. The CHAIRMAN. And the same is true so far as the Senate is concerned. Mr. CROMELIN. I thank you very much. We have endeavored to get that information from the Librarian, and he stated yesterday that it was highly improbable, but he could not state---- Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Cromelin, if you will excuse me, I said that I had no right to give any such prophecy on the part of the committee; it was not within my control. You will do me the justice to say, Mr. Cromelin, that I added that when the copyright office asked for this bill to be introduced it had no expectation itself of any possibility of its being reported at this session. Mr. CROMELIN. Thank you very much for the information I have gotten from the Librarian and from the chairmen of the respective committees. That assures us on the point, for the first time, that this bill will not be reported at this session of Congress. (After a consultation between the members of the committees:) The CHAIRMAN. The committee has decided that it will hear some representative of all these interests, if they shall so desire, not exceeding an hour, with the same permission to supply in writing such matter as they may desire, as was given to Mr. Walker. I might add that it seems to us that the representatives of these interests can state concisely in that time their objections to the bill as introduced in the Senate and House, leaving the details to be supplied in writing, as I have suggested. It does not seem necessary to us, unless it is desired by these representatives, to have each gentleman representing each manufactory make a speech to this committee. We think that it will be giving you all a fair opportunity to be heard to comply with the suggestion that has been made. Mr. WEBB. The interests are about the same. The CHAIRMAN. The interests are precisely the same, as I understand it, so that the objections must be along the same line. Mr. CROMELIN. Mr. Chairman, may I merely state that as regards sound records as understood by a phonograph record, a graphophone record, or a telegraphonic record, the interests may not be the same. We are standing together against the whole measure; but it must be fully understood that in so far as relates to the reproduction of sounds previously produced, there may be a distinction between a sound-producing machine and a sound-reproducing machine.