New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-04

point was that il was an American BILL and would
give the American people American books by
American authors.
Mr.. Kerr, of Iowa, opposed the bill character
zing ideas as something intangible and referring to
the pending measure great tariff law. II was
"a law for the protection Of the printers. 1t was
not protective tariff, hut prohbtive tarih.
Mr. Cummings, OF New-lorl, declared that the
bill was demanded not only by the National Typo
graphical Union, with its 5000 members, but by
the American Federation of Labor and by the
knights of Labor 1t was recognized not only
as dealing ont Justice to the authors, but as doing
justice to the organized printers Of the Union.
As the case stood now, American books were sent
10 England and pat in typc, and their ,hellpia'cs
brought here and sold to American publishers Tor
tie purpose of robbng American printers oil the
work that sh6uld I've done ia tits country. NOI
only this, but English books were brought mere
in shell plates. All the printers asked was tEil
if English books were to he SOFA cheap III thls
country the type should be set IN TINS country
Mr.. ButterwOIth, Of Ohio, supported 'he nlll.
II provides, he said, for recognition OF thG
rights Of property. and 1t therefore oughl 10 iiilu
favor with any man who believed IN protecting
the rights of property. The gentleman from
Iowa Mr.. Kerr had said that ideas were IN
tangible. Whenever the time came that IDEAS.
thinking-had no money value We would become
a nation of chumpS.' 1LaughtcrJ The Gov
eminent had said that il would recognize prop
city in thought when it materalIzeI, So that
other men could use ii. IL had established the
practice and recognized the wisdom Of protect
Ing the individual in the exclusive rig mt to Il
great thought that would bless mankind.
Mr. Peters, OF Kansas, moved TO rc-c0mlnlt the
bill with instructions to the COMMITTEES on Patents
TO report it back with an amendment limiting the
life of a COPYRIGHT 10 fourteen years.
Mr. Breckenridge. of Arkansas, moved to amend
the instructions by instructing thc committee TO
provide for the importation OF books OF foreign
authors at the rate now provided by law ms
was lost-ycas, %: nays 140-and Mr. Peters
motion suffered the same fate by yeas, 9S'
nays lGe.
the bill and this was successfully accomplished
by this vote:
Ycas-Nsssrs ADAMS; Allen M Ela A hs1iiHs
Bsync. Beckwth. Hclden, Belknap, Bingham. Booth
nan. Boutellc. breckenridge (KyJ, Bro>luN Brninrr'
Bynum. Caldwell Campbell, Carter, CaSwell. Cheadle
cheatham. Chapman. CLANCY. Clark Wyo1, tosSc%GE'
CnlbertSon penn. Cummings Cutcheon Dalzel,
Dargan. Darlington, Dingley. Dorsey Dulnell, DunpN'
(reenlagc Grout. lIan>brough, Iiarmer. llemphlli'
Herman. Iiouk. Kctclam. Kinsey LaFollete. Ladlaw
ioGee Maener, Mai,h. Mchdoo. McCarthy McComas,
McDuiie. McKenna, Mckinley. Miles. Miller; MQfhtt'
4D%nneii, oyeii {NaSsj. O'Neiil PENN, osborne,
owen Ind). PAYNE. Pennington. Post Price Vnache m
SAWYER. scul. sherman. shvely. >imonds, smyser'
sndcr, spnoa: Spoon"r. stephenson stewart M,'
f. b. Taylor Townsend (Coll. Townsend ,penn;,'
Tracy, Tucker, NaNdever, Van Sclack NanH, NaIi,M'
Wade Walker. Wallace ~ ". Wiley. WILCOX VIII
Jams (OhioD Wilson lWash), Wilson (W. Na''' 1ooer
-139 ,-
Nays-Messrs. Abbott, Atkinson Henn.l' barncs'
Bergen Gland. BlOUnt. Breckenridge (ArkD, BiCWer'
ErcNner Brookshire. j. y. Brown. buchanan va
GAMBLER (Gal. Cannon. Clements, Cobb, cooper uhol
Crisp. DelanO. Dibble. Dockcry. Dollivcr' Edmnho.'
Inl0e. Finley Flirk. Foreman. Foruey, oWlcr Necl'
Goodnight Hare. Hatch. HauCcn. F.. Il. HAYS iaNe,'
Heard henderson 0lll Henderson Qowal: henderson
~ Cl ITerhept Holman. Hooker, Kelley Kerr Iowa.
EiIcore. Lacey. Lane Lauham. Lester Val; MiiSur'
Mttn dndj. Martiu TeXl, Mcclellan. McCmaEy'
NcMln. NcRae. Mills. MONTGOMERY; Moore llcHJ'
Morrill, Norton oates. OTcfrall. O'Neall lnd. owens
iohioi Pavnter Payson. Pet. Perkins Perry, Peters
Pierce Raw. Reed Gova'. Richardson. Rockwell
Rogers savers skinner. smith 0lll smith CIV. Va,
springer stewart Texl, stone XIV. sweeney. J.; d.
TaylOr. Thomas. Turner oia.l. Whe@cr iAla Nnne
low whiting, Wikc Williams Gll), and Wilson,
(MO(-9j.