that all over the United States, for States, for cities, for counties, and other areas, sometimes within cities, there have been censuses of population, and other varieties of censuses, covering unemployment, and so forth, which have been taken locally.

The Census Bureau has endeavored at considerable pains to stop as many of those censuses as it could, feeling that the result would be chaos. The results would be noncomparable. We were unable to stop a great many of them, and they have been going on. 1 think that fact should be cited for several reasons: First, as an explanation of the sort of annoyance to which one of the members of the committee referred yesterday; second, as evidence of the widespread real demand within the local communities for data of this kind that Dr. Dedrick spoke of this morning, and, third, as evidence that we now need to straighten out this chaos by a national census which will give us something to replace this nonuniform and noncomparable data which have been collected in States and municipalities.

The CHAIRMAN. I am sure that the record shows the introduction of a letter from Secretary Roper to the chairman of the committee, under date of April 28, 1934, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Director of the Budget to the Secretary of Commerce, under date of April 26, 1934, and another letter from the Director of the Budget to the Secretary of Commerce, dated April 26, 1934, in which the Director states that the bill H.R. 9391, was prepared in collaboration with representatives of the Census Bureau, the Budget Bureau, and the Central Statistical Board, and, also, that the proposed expenditures are not inconsistent with the financial policy of the administration. If the record does not show that those communications were offered, I will ask that they be admitted and made a part of the record. If there are no other witnesses to be heard, and if it is agreeable to the committee, the hearings will be closed.

The evidence will be transcribed, and the members of the committee who have participated in the discussions will be given an opportunity to revise their remarks. Then, the hearings will be printed.

Mr. KINZER. You will not have that before next week, will you? The CHAIRMAN. No. I will say, that I want to expedite committee action as much as possible. I will notify every member of the committee in advance of our executive sessions to enable them to make their arrangements to be present. In this connection, may I say to my good friend, Mr. Brown, that by inadvertance my secretary notified Mr. Brown of Kentucky of our first meeting when Mr. Brown of Georgia should have been notified, he being a valuable member of this committee.

Mr. BROWN. I can say that I have heard enough to be convinced. The CHAIRMAN. I simply make that statement in justice to Mr. Brown, who was not present at our first hearing. That was because, through inadvertence, he was not notified.

Mr. AUSTIN. You will also give those who appeared an opportunity to go over their statements, will you not?

The CHAIRMAN. Certainly.

Mr. AUSTIN. Mr. Chairman, we want to thank you and the committee for the very courteous hearing you have accorded us.

(Thereupon, the committee adjourned subject to the call of the chairman.)