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voted upon by the House and received a vote of 139 to 95 on its final passage.

In the Senate there was a notable debate lasting Senate de- six days, February 9, 12-14, 17-18, 1891, in which bate, 1891 Senators Sherman and Carlisle championed an amend- ment permitting the importation of authorized for- eign editions which was opposed by the Typographi- cal Unions as violating the manufacturing clause, and by authors and publishers as a restriction on authors' rights of control. Senator Frye on Febru- ary 9, 1 89 1, advocated an amendment extending the manufacturing clause beyond books to include maps, charts, dramatic or musical compositions, engravings, cuts, prints, photographs, chromos and lithographs. With these and other amendments, the bill passed the Senate 36 to 14, February 18, 1891. On Febru- ary 28, 1891, the House voted 128 to 64 non-concur- rence in the Senate amendments, and a Conference Committee was appointed.

This first Conference Committee, reporting on Passage of March 2, 1891, disagreed on the Sherman amend- act of March ment, and accepted the other Senate amendments ; '*• ^ ^^ the report was accepted by the House, 139 to 90, on March 2, 1891. The Senate, on March 3, refused by a vote of 33 to 28 to recede from the Sherman amend- ment, and a second Conference Committee was ap- pointed. This second Conference Committee modi- fied the Sherman amendment, and after an all-night session the copyright bill was passed, 127 to ^T, by the House, March 3, and was also passed, 27 to 18, by the Senate at half past two in themorning, March 4, 1891.

The bill as passed was in the form of amendments to the Revised Statutes, omitting the limitation to citizens or residents of the United States, confining copyright, in the case of a book, photograph, chromo or lithograph, to works of which the deposit copies