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Show THE COPYRIGHT RIM. The Itrpnrt on It Presented end Aflojil tl In tlio Hciiatn Tno Amend- itirntv TMt errccrs or THt Tnirr law TO DC ASCCP.TAINCD. 1'roiMon fur lli raiment of 1,90u Ul)l) Uond of tlit District f cutainlila. Bf TttszTSva to tna Nxsrl. IX THE ftl.lATn. Mile 1-asaed n,l llii.lnras Transacted lcaleeelaj. - Waiiiinuto.i, March .V An amend-Infill amend-Infill providing payment to tliu Parlllo railroad u agreed to without dlvl-I dlvl-I Inn. The next reserved amnnlmcnt wm tint fur the intment of tliu French sllatlou claims. Tho dlicyelou woe carried un nt much length by Messra. Hie nit, Hoar, ttvarts, riheriuan, l.J-iiionda. l.J-iiionda. Huohr, Morrill, Dinlc), Itlalr, Hale, lteagan and linn ley. Finally, tJoraian having apiulud to the senators sen-ators to slop OIiciiukIoii ami to a Ilia LIU before It WMtoo.latc, ovule wm taken mill tho I'rencli (inflation claim) amendment agreed lo yea 41, niyi 14. The last rreervexl amendment wa that striking out of tho House hill tlia tstragraj li giving a month' extra iy to ollli-vr and employe of tlin Honnto mill House lionie on tin annual or session rolli. The amcnlmeiit wai illaa,rreel to mil thu paragraph wm retained. re-tained. Faulkm r moved to add to the pant. fraph thu words mil oUlcltl report ot hoBeualuaud House. Agreed to. Hlewart offered au amendment to rclmbuisu California, Oregon nnil No vaU for ihouey expended hy llirra In aupprenlou of Iho rulHilllun, I- ljT,0i to California, $.'J.'i,U)1 to Uri-giiiand 1 104 1) to Nevada, rho amendment v, ai agreed bi without division. Cat lisle nllercctnuuoiendmoiitlo the extra month's ay paragraph, to a to lueluJu employe of tlio law dciurt-nient dciurt-nient of tho Congressional Library Agreed to. A paragraph was Inserted directing the HcereUry of tliu Treisury lo acillo mil iiy tlio claims of New Yolk, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia nmlHooOi Carolina, and Uio city of llaltlmoru on account ot advance made In tho war of 1S1.; and oppro-pruning oppro-pruning j;,W0,OX for tint airpoc. The hill voaipasaed and aunt liack to tho House with tho Henate amendment. amend-ment. Tho conbrtnro report on tho dlplo-matloanj dlplo-matloanj txiiitulur appropriation till waa prnvntul and arrvd to. t)a the putNlou appmjirlallon hill tho ronfiftmciommUWoruorUil Uiat uo H;ri4 uietit hail been reached. AlllloiiexpUlnul that tlio dbwe-ineut dbwe-ineut waa orr Uie amenilinent adoptix! hy the Hiii(.i Ui it the pruvUlou limit lint thofevaof ptiilnn atturneya to $1 ''In com ot lucrroaed iiaIotu" ahouU not apply to uxWUtiR aIM contralto. The ronfcreuce report on tho aundry clrll n piojirlatlon Llll, which waa prtMnloil ami read loat nlKhl, waa laaeii uii and antitl to. The llotitoauiundoionta to the Hen-ate Hen-ate Mil to i utaiilliti certain porta ot do. Ilrrry In Alaakn Territory, rfloclus the amount from i'i,(X) lo JlllWJ, waa coitcurted In Tho retort on tlio copyrlglit hill wai priMiiited, explained hy l'latt and Bit (nil to. Them wem two ilnU, however, an which bo agreement waa riaehed the Hheruuu runiudiiieitt allowing the Imiwrutlon ou inymeut of HrlirdullMof foreign coplnot copy ilKlit iNvka, and 1 intaUa' ainemlnivnt nllowlmt the Importation of newiiiera and ma,;4zliit. ltolni; ealitllcl that no copy rlnlit bill ooiirU become u law with Uioeo too aineiiduitnU, l'latt moved that the Heiibtu recede from them. riherman at(ued In iuvit of hla amendment, and Mid without It ho woulJ not hlatllberilovotofortli bill, lie would not kItc the puhluhira of thoUultedriUteaaliaolutnnkiuoioly In the produitlou of any book. Ho woul 1 five to them tho prl-lkneot a protect-re protect-re duty that would kcuiu riiiploy-iiieuttuprlutera riiiploy-iiieuttuprlutera and to caltal, aa lu the caae of other roducta of the country. coun-try. IftheblllUcame ala.w without aineudineut, ho IwlloveJ It would be the iut unpulur law on the atatute luok. It waa the alrltof inonoiuly mid dtalre for ulnolute praliHiltlou that lay at the foundation ot the utipoaHlon to the amend meat. lllacnck, onu ot the cnnAieea, aup-lilemeutml aup-lilemeutml what I'Utt aald IdMiit the failure of the bill uuleeetliu Bcuate re-cednl re-cednl from those amenilnu-ubi, by aaylnif that It the Heuutu dhl not recede re-cede In tho matter It Wfca of no ran-acuuence ran-acuuence whether the bill fatted or not. Jlu naked Hherman what ho pro-ed pro-ed (by hla amtiidmenl) to i;lvo the authoia. Hlierman replied that he proeil to live them eirluilve rlitht In UioaaJe )! their book In the United Hint... 1 1 lacoik remarked that It would lu Uoexclualwrlnlil Vihanthe purclmaera could Import buoka under Hie prraent Jaw, tmylt it a duty of irieut. Hu auertedthat no foreign author would avail hlmielfof the copyrlKliI ail(wllh thuHhruuiaanKiiduieutlnlt)Licauau lila book wool I bo plrotnl aoimnvhero lau and would be Importoil Into tho United HUtra. Aato lnuall'aaiiieud. ment tmlinlttlnir imwini and rl-oJkiiM, rl-oJkiiM, HlM-oik niln that iinilur It the wnika of Amerh'au authora could U luhlUhoil abroad In aerial fori o ond could bo lmiitcd Ithout even lylutf taduty. '1 hat the amtudment atruik ulreitly at Amirlcan authoia and Uu-k from tin in thobeuolIUot ttalr iropy-right. iropy-right. u After a Ion illcualon iTatt'a mo; Hon ton cede from the rJhermau and IngalU ainimdiuenU aa divided , and a vote inkiiv flrt on recmlliig from tho Hhermuii aiuendmrtit. The tuotlou wai definted, J eaa M, HajM 8.1, and the Hlierman amendment wm re-tallied. re-tallied. ThoIiiKiilla nnieiidmcnt Max retntuM vllhi.ut ulvltluu aul u further coutereiicoonlirnl. Tho beuatu hill lu Incorjorato u National Coiiwrvatory of Mu.lo of America waj taken from tlm caleuuir and rfcuj, ' Ihehenute tlii.ii prorihil to Um rontldtratloii of tliu lluuto petition illUoullieclciidar, Afur thu lua, ln ot about tlxty audi hllla the huil iioi waa Md aMdetttniarlly. A ntolutloii waa rrimrtcil mid ajrii-J to, dlrectlnitllieCommlltceim l'unnce loajcerlalii, lu every ptactlcable way, Aiid report from time t time, the effect ofthelariiriaaiim tho Importa mid irta, uniwlh. Uoel nienl and re uuctlon and rlon of ajrhuUural and minufntturol aitlclia at home and abroad and tho wamn, doinllu and forelffii, with authority to ill nt audi tlmea and placia aa the committee may ureni advlattl lu. Mamtcrwin waa upiiolntnl a tnemU r nrthntvmnilltee on rulea III plncont Inicalla, halitnedi CWy a niMnler ol llieciiuinlttMion a!ilfiilturi' In plaw nf lltalr, icihined; and Mal'hiraon n inembor of aeiect committee on I'acltlo Jtallroad, In place of llcart, diroanl, A resolution to jay , Heuator Mc I) maid or Atkaiiwu. lilt lay aa Helm. tor from March 4 ts;n,tlll ho wai nl J, w aa repotted nu 1 nreeil to. A resolution reso-lution aluillartothe onu In the raw of McOmald waa rciortod from the com mltteeun coutluient ciienra In the' caieofcx-Hcmlor Warner of Alabama, Otijeclloii male and It waa placid on the calen lar, vi I a m llliiu wit mido to rcmtuldt r the Mcllonal I reaolutlon. The Henate then went Into executive acaahu, and I) tun. took a imn until 8 o'clock. At the evciiliii hcmIoii Ilia Kcnate Imlited on tho Itawallau cable amend-mentlo amend-mentlo the diplomatic and consular ap.roprlallon bill, mid nnvi to afur titer ounrerence, lli'o aUtlug; that wai tho only matter In dkpute. All the ta-mlon I. llli ihat.rrroon thu calendar noro pawed, lu all ID J of them wiru pta-l todtyan llouluhl, tlm t-aeu nm oc-upylnK much nitre than nu hour. A concurrent reaolutlon lo rlut 100, OMcorlnoftliu teitlmony taken before be-fore tho rolnaen rooi'iilUin of tlie IIou waa objected toby Teller, on thOKroundlhatlt wai worthleia mid tiiMcadlnic. Thoie who dnlreil toiin-UuratAud toiin-UuratAud tho iiueatlou hid other aiurcea of reliable lurormttlon, but that teitlmony aecraut ti have been taken for the . njuav of obHurlng an I hi lliiz the truth. Tho oljuctloli wai aullli Ulil lo defeat the riaofullnD. tlray inoved'lo lake up the llo'iae bill for tin) trauitVr of tha revenue marine ma-rine aervlco from MoTreaaury l)juit-menltothe l)juit-menltothe nival ritatilliliiuent. A-croud A-croud to, yen IN, naya ti.1, aul the hill wai taken up tor couilJcraUon. (teekrell oppw.1 the bill, but ylrt leil tho 11 ior, and tlie conference refiort and the Indian Appropriation bill waa f reecnted, and agiMd to. The conreronoo reiiorton tho Toit-onica Toit-onica Approi rlillon mil waipreaentedi and nitteed to. The conreronce reort on ths copy-rlffhtbltl copy-rlffhtbltl waa then jireauuted and explained ex-plained by l'litu He aald that It waa the only agreement that niuill be reached, and failure to njrroe bi It would b niulvalant to defeat of the hilt. If the re,ott reraa;reod to, It would provl le that tooka which wvtu on thu free Iht under the MeKlnley bill, two cot'lcacoulJ lai Imiiorted fr.e of tluty It left out Hherm in'a amond menu. It left ovcry one at lllierly bi Impirttaoroplei or foreign Uioka by jiayluii duty oil them, mid it left tiavra-rittDranudiuaixtuea tiavra-rittDranudiuaixtuea to be Imjiorted, provldliiifthey did not contain copy-rlaht copy-rlaht matter. That vnia all there to the aureviuent, and It took the place of alt that the Hauato had been imar-rellnsalout. imar-rellnsalout. Hlierman aald thu Hauate conforeoa hat aurrandcreil what hud twice been voted for by decisive majorltlca of thu theHciiite. C'outr try to pullainenliry mile, a majority of the Senate con fereeahadUTU ma.Ie up ofrjeuatora oiiiomh! to tho action of the Henite on the Llll. The etlect of the iro.,.UIon ai It now aloud wna to make copyrlKht alloxcluallemoiioiu1y. It alio took thu hiart aud lifo out or Iniiall'a n.ni'inlmi'iit, and ho would lolu aKaltatlt. t'ockrell dereiideil the report and dray atated why hn had not alined It. tlray aild he aliniild mourn the ilcfeivt of the bill, defeated by revwn ot the libllilier. They had not ahnvn a wllliuttiiititooucuJe a alniilolotaor their tlllm. The hill had to bo made water Unlit lu tin Ir Inlen-.t. The conference retiort on the pen-tlon pen-tlon appropriation bill nni agreed to. DcU'.o on thu copyright coufen nee waa continued and Dually thu center-nice center-nice reutt wai agreed to, yeai !!7, uaj a 19, ai follow t: Aldrlrli, Allen, Chamller, Dawea, Dixon, DjIiIi, J.JmunJa. Newell. Nye, llawley, lllxuii, Hoar, Jouee (Nov.), McMillan, Morrill, Tooio, rime, l'lalt, Hawyir, Hliuup, Hpooner. Htan-lord, Htan-lord, Htawart, Warren, Waihburn, Wlhon, Wolcott-27. Naja Hate, Ilirry, Call, Carlisle, Caicy, Coke, Cullom, Daoleln, I'aulk-ner, I'aulk-ner, Oonnati, tlray, liigatle, Kenun, Miiricau, l'eUliirow, I'liiuiU llauaom, Hliauiion, Wnhhall-ID. The conrereiicu rejurt on tho agricultural agri-cultural hill waiprwcntod mid agreed to, and, at 1:1 5, the ticuato proceeded to executive tiuilm aa. The llouiebllltotranirer tho rove-nuocutur rove-nuocutur aervlco hiving been taken up, Hlurman moved lo l-ulinu Hi further comhlcratlon till theflrat Monday Mon-day In December next, and C'hauJiir proUitodaalmtthu unjuit trvatnient to which the bill waaauhjecled. tlray ) lolJuil tho tloor lo I'.mco.who, atl'iU a.m., moved to recunalder the utiaureilii,(lo thuconrerencu rert oil the cot yrfght bill, and alj movod thatthollotiMibo reiUetid to return the bill to tho Heinle. A vote waa taken on the latter motion, and re-ullod, re-ullod, yeail.1, na)a!, no quorum. Alllaiu suggested that tho call for the J eaa aud naya lie withdrawn and that un other liusloesa bo douu except action on the couferemo reiioru l'latt Where will that havo the copyright 1111 Allison-Iilou'tkuow. After llivdoorawero oencd lugalla called attention lollioiiuwsllyof mail-lug mail-lug provision fur the pajroent of tho $t,lw.),ili bonds of thelil.trhtof Col-uuibla Col-uuibla filling dun In January aud July, 161).'. 1'rovlklon for llu m In tho dUtrlct bill waa lett to conference, aud the Houre had Jutt iuuvd n hill which hu asked tha Hi nate to nau for tliu Issue of ten-year funding Innda. After a abort dlacuaaliin, tlm bill uai inuaod without amendnient. llnlo ruoteil, at ".SO n in., that the Heiialo recede from the Hawaiian cable nmeudnient lo the diplomatic nnd consular con-sular appropriation bill, the only quia, tlon Ik-Iwc. n tho houn.ii on Hint bill, lieluz convlm-eil that It wculJ I uso. Iim to attempt ooy further confircnco on tho aulject. The nmllon waa ariidtu ana the bill iiaw bom to tho I'rtaldinU |
