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MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Friday, March 20, 1911^. The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Dudley M. Hughes (chairman) presiding. Present also: Mr. Doughton, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Baker, Mr. Clancy, Mr. Piatt, Mr. Treadway, Mr. Fess, and Mr. Rupley. The Chairman. Gentlemen, Ihe committee will come to order. I wish to say that this is a bill "To create a new division of the Bureau of Education to be known as the Federal Motion Picture Commission, and defining its powers and duties." We will be pleased to hear from Mr. Crafts. STATEMENT OF REV. WIIBTJR F. CRAFTS, SUPERINTENDENT AND TREASURER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REFORM BUREAU. Mr. Crafts. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I think I will read the bill, as some of the members of the committee may not have read it, although it will go into your record. The Chairman. All of the members have the bill before them. [H. R. 14805, Sixty-third Congress, second session.] A BILL To create a new division of the Bureau of Education to be known as the Federal motion picture commission, and defining its powers and duties. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amcriea in Congress assembled, That a Federal motion picture com- mission be, and the same is hereby, created, to be composed of five commis- sioners appointed by the President, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party. The commission shall be a division of the Bureau of Education. Sec. 2. That each commissioner shall hold office for six years, except that when the commission is first constituted two commissioners shall be appointed for two years, two for four years, and one for six years. Each commissioner shnll thereafter be appointed for a full term of six years. A^acancies shall be filled in same manner as the original appointment. The salary of the chairman shall be $3,500 a year, and of each other commissioner, $3,000 a year. Sec. 3. That the commission shall elect a secretary, whose salary shall be $1,500 per annum. The commission may appoint inspectors and fix the com- pensation of each, provided that in no case the compensation of an inspector shall be more than $5 per day exclusive of traveling expenses. Actual and necessary traveling expenses shall be allowed to those who travel on the busi- ness of the commission. Sec. 4. That the commission shall license every film submitted to it and in- tended for entrance into interstate commerce, unless it finds that such film is obscene, indecent, immoral, or depicts a bull fight or a prize fight, or is of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt the morals of children or adults or incite to crime. The commission may license any film, subject to such 8