SIXTIETH CONGRESS

COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE SENATE

REED SMOOT, of Utah, Chairman.

ALFRED B. KITTREDGE, of South Dakota. M. J. FOSTER, of Louisiana.
MOSES E. CLAPP, of Minnesota.
F. B. BRANDEGEE, of Connecticut.

F. B. GARY, of South Carolina.
W. H. MILTON, of Florida.

CHAS. M. MORRIS, Clerk.

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COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FRANK D. CURRIER, of New Hampshire, Chairman.

EDWARD H. HINSHAW, of Nebraska.
ANDREW J. BARCHFELD, of Pennsylvania.
JOHN C. CHANEY, of Indiana.
CHARLES MCGAVIN, of Illinois.
E. STEVENS HENRY, of Connecticut.
CHARLES G. WASHBURN, of Massachusetts.
CHARLES B. LAW, of New York.

BENJAMIN K. FOCHT, of Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM SULZER, of New York.
GEORGE S. LEGARE, of South Carolina.
Le GAGE PRATT, of New Jersey.
WILLIAM B. WILSON. of Pennsylvania.
EUGENE W. LEAKE, of New Jersey.

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List of persons present at hearings.

Hearing. Thursday morning, March 26, 1908:

Association of the bar of the city of New York; recommendations of com-

Statement by George Haven Putnam..

mittee on copyright..

Statements by-

Harry P. Mawson..

Ligon Johnson...

Joseph I. C. Clarke...

Hearing, Thursday evening, March 26, 1908:

Statements by-

Joseph I. C. Clarke.......

Henry J. Frohnhoefer.

Nathan Burkan..

Albert H. Walker.

B. F. Wood...

W. B. Hale..

George Haven Putnam..

Robert Underwood Johnson..

James L. Feeney.

George W. Ogilvie.....

George Haven Putnam.

W. B. Hale..

George W. Ogilvie...

Hearing. Friday morning, March 27, 1908:

Statements by-

Robert Underwood Johnson..

The copyright bills in comparison and compromise, prepared by R. R.

Bowker, vice-president American Copyright League..

Statements by-

George Haven Putnam..

W. A. Livingstone..

Decision of the Supreme Court in case of American Tobacco Co. v. Werck-

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William Allen Jenner..

Hearing, Friday evening, March 27, 1908:

Statements by-

Edmond E. Wise....

George Haven Putnam.

C. P. Montgomery.

Thomas Nelson Page.

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