When this bill was before the Census Committee. a distinguished member of that committee passed a slip of paper across the table and asked me to move the indefinite postponement of action on the bill. On the occasion when Dr. Austin appeared before our committee. prior to any consideration being given this bill. and when it was suggested on the part of the members of our committee who are also members of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization that a census of aliens be taken in connection with the regular decennial population census. he opposed the pollution of that census by anything that would impair the integrity of the work of his Bureau. which he says has been built up and established over many years. His argument was that any departure would impair confidence and. shut the door to essential statistics. Dr.
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