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Smoot- tredge, introduced a majority bill December i6, 1907

^y^®'* (Senate bill 2499), and Senator Kittredge a minority Barchfefd' bill December 18, 1907 (Senate bill 2900) ; and in the bills, igo7-o8 House, Chairman Currier introduced the majority bill December 2, 1907 (H. R. bill 243), and A. J. Barch- feld the minority laill January 6, 1908 (H. R. bill 1 1 794). The Smoot-Currier bills, practically identi- cal, were less favorable to authors, particularly in re- spect to mechanical reproductions of music, than the Kittredge-Barchfeld bills; and in a pamphlet "The copyright bills in comparison and compromise," pre- pared by R. R. Bowker in behalf of the American (Authors) Copyright League in March, 1908, the fea- tures of the several measures were compared and the views of the Copyright League set forth in a com- bined measure, with annotations. The "canned music " question, indeed, absorbed most of the time at the third hearing, in the stenographic report of which a combined index to the several hearings was printed. Washburn, After the hearings, other bills were introduced into Suizer, Mc- the first session of the Sixtieth Congress by C. G. bis?' Washburn May 4, 1908 (H. R. bill 21592), more fully representing authors' views; by Wm. Suizer May 12, 1908 (H. R. bills 21984, 22071), embodying views of dramatic authors; by S. W. McCall May 12, 1908 (H. R. bill 22098), embodying an amendment to the manufacturing clause as phrased by the American (Authors) Copyright League, excepting from the manufacturing provision "the original text of a for- eign work in a language other than English," and by Chairman Currier May 12, 1968 (H. R. bill 22183). But again no action was taken at this session.

At the short (second) session of the Sixtieth Con- gress the copyright bills were reintroduced in the House by Mr. Barchfeld December 19, 1908 (H. R. bill 24782), by Mr. Suizer January 5, 1909 (H. R. bill