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Show International Copyright. Washington, January 29. At the hearing given to-day by the Senate : committee on patents to authorize publishers and others interested in the subject of international copyright, Gardner Hubbard addressed the committee in opposition to the passage of any copyright bill. James Russell Lowell, President of the. American Copyright League, introduced and spoke at some length in favor of the international copyright copy-right bill. . In reply to Hnbbard he said . nobody . would maintain that there was property . in an idea. The property right was the fashion of presenting the idea. The' Constitution Con-stitution recognized this in granting patents patents were nothing but ideas fashioned in a certain way. For instance, the Bell telephone was precisely a parallel case with books. He declared there was one kind of books better than cheap books, and those were books honestly came by. He took a moral view of the question. Many of the arguments introduced by Hubbard might be used in defense of pocket-picking. One could live much easier if he could live on the labors of other people, but this was not considered honest when he was young. Lowell spoke for an hour, chiefly in reply to inquiries addressed ad-dressed to him by members of the committee. commit-tee. James Welsh, president of the Typographical Typographi-cal Union of Philadelphia, and representing the Unions of the entire country, addressed the committee and presented a memorial in support of the Chace bill, and in opposition oppo-sition to the Hawley bill. In reply to inquiries, . he said the Hawley bill amended as suggested by Senator Hawley yesterday by the insertion of a provision requiring re-quiring foreign works copyrighted here to be printed in this country, would be satisfactory satis-factory to labor organizations. |