can continue to pay our enumerators approximately a dollar an hour which we find is adequate for the job.

Mr. ROONEY. Did the Bureau of the Budget explain why it took out the present language and refused to insert the words "enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act"?

Mr. HAUSER. We have the approval of the Bureau of the Budget for this change we have just shown you. The sequence of events can be explained by Mr. Alexander, if you wish.

Mr. ROONEY. Let us have the explanation briefly.

Mr. ALEXANDER. The authority for paying at other than classification rates has been with the Bureau of the Census since the Fifteenth Decennial Census Act, which gave the Director of the Census, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, the right to pay at other than classification rates.

At the time we prepared this budget the Classification Act of 1949 had not been passed and we did not know it would affect this item, so the Budget Bureau felt that it was not necessary again to restate it in our appropriation language.

However, after the Classification Act of 1949 was passed, it purported to supersede all existing laws which gave anyone authority to pay other than at classification rates and in effect superseded the basic legislation in the Fifteenth Decennial Census Act.

Mr. ROONEY. Does the Bureau of the Budget at the present time concur in this request to restate this language in the committee print? Mr. ALEXANDER. Yes, sir.

Mr. HAUSER. Yes, sir.

Mr. ROONEY. Originally in the committee print?

Mr. HAUSER. Yes, sir.

Mr. ROONEY. As well as the language with regard to enumerators'? Mr. HAUSER. That is right, sir.

Mr. ROONEY. There is no sense in having both clauses inserted. Mr. HAUSER. No; just the enumerators.

Mr. ALEXANDER. The temporary employees will come out.

Mr. ROONEY. Then you want us to insert the words "enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act," instead of "temporary employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce without regard to the Classification Act?"

Mr. HAUSER. That is right.

Mr. ROONEY. The next is the "Seventeenth decennial census." This item appears at page 22 of the committee print and beginning at page 138 of the justifications. We shall insert at this time nine pages of figures which have been handed me by Dr. Hauser relating to the estimated cost of the seventeenth decennial census.

(The matter referred to is as follows:)

Seventeenth decennial census-Population, agriculture, and housing-Work load data, fiscal 1951

Accounting, fiscal, and budgetary activities.

Maintenance of tabulating equipment.

Professional and technical planning and direction.

Transcription of mortgage verification schedules including proofing.

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