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0 0 - 8 - want to come, a written report would be all right. I take that to mean that the Attorney General did not in fact want to come up and testify before this committee, and subject himself to questions; he preferred to file a report in writing and have it sent up here by messenger. We have been trying to get this report from the office of the Attorney General for some two weeks now; and the word always has been that the report was in process. They were "working on it." I had visions of a long and carefully-drafted and well-documented and erudite report, that would give us some help in our consideration of this bill. But no. That is not what we got. we got a two and a half page letter addressed to the Chairman of the full Comittee, which starts out: - "Dear Senator: "Because of the importance of the subject, I am taking the liberty of stating my views on the bill S-26h6. . ." That doesnt even indicate that the Attorney General knows he has been asked to testify on this bill. ihat sounds like he was te -5 us he is sending us his opinion voluntarily. How can he be "taking the liberty" of stating his views, when he has been asked in writing by the Chairman of the Committee to do so? Well, the Attorney General's letter goes on for another two pages. The second paragraph summarizes what the bill provides. Then the third paragraph starts off with this sentence: "In the first place, it is clear that this proposal is not based on general considerations of policy relating to the Judiciary."