| FRANK D. CURRIER, New Hampshire, Chairman. | |
| SOLOMON R. DRESSER, Pennsylvania. | CHARLES McGAVIN, Illinois. |
| JOSEPH M. DIXON, Montana. | WILLIAM SULZER, New York. |
| EDWARD H. HINSHAW, Nebraska. | GEORGE S. LEGARE, South Carolina. |
| ROBERT W. BONYNGE, Colorado. | EDWIN Y. WEBB, North Carolina. |
| WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, Ohio. | ROBERT G. SOUTHALL, Virginia. |
| ANDREW J. BARCHFELD, Pennsylvania. | JOHN GILL, Jr., Maryland. |
| JOHN C. CHANEY, Indiana. | |
| Edward A. Barney, Clerk. | |
ARGUMENT (CONTINUED) ON H. R. 11943, TO AMEND TITLE 60, CHAPTER 3, OFREVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, RELATING TO COPYRIGHTS.
Committee on Patents,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C., May 3, 1906.
The committee met at 11 o'clock a.m., Hon. Frank D. Currier (chairman)in the chair.
The Chairman. I have received a telegram regarding the billnow before the committee from John Philip Sousa, which reads asfollows:
Northampton, Mass., May 3, 1906.
The Chairman and Members of Congress,
Committee on Patents, Washington, D.C.:
Earnestly request that the American composer receives full and adequate protection for the product of his brain; any legislation that does not give him absolute control of that he creates is a return to the usurpation of might and a check on the intellectual development of our country.
John Philip Sousa.
STATEMENT OF MR. A. R. SERVEN, ATTORNEY FOR THE
MUSIC PUBLISHERS'ASSOCIATION—Continued.
Mr. Serven. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee,during the last hundred years and more the inventors of the countryhave been liberally dealt with by the lawmakers, and the result isto-day no country in the world stands higher in everything in the lineof mechanical and industrial development than the United States does,and I think you gentlemen who have this matter of patents in charge mayjustly take pride in yoursel