In the bill considered by our committee. as the distinguished gentleman. my colleague on the Judiciary Committee. knows. there was this same provision in substance. But on account of the expense entailed and because of the fact that the census was about to be taken and much of this information would be gleaned by that. we omitted from the bill that we favorably reported to the House the general provision. leaving in it the requirement only that every alien applying for a visa in a foreign country should be fingerprinted. The exigencies of the case a year later induced the Senate to write substantially the same provisions which were originally reported by our committee to the House. and we have agreed to recede and concur in the Senate amendment.