American engineering council: National Hydraulic laboratory

Senate Bill 3043 and H. R. 8299 providing for the establishment of a National Hydraulic Research Laboratory in the Bureau of Standards has again been introduced into the present Congress. In the Senate it was referred to the Committee on Commerce which promptly reported the bill out, and it is now on the calendar. Unquestionably it will be acted upon shortly after the Senate disposes of the Tariff Bill. In the house, it was referred to the Rivers and Harbors Committee, which called upon Major General Lytle Brown, the new Chief of Engineers, for a statement on the bill. General Brown appeared before the Committee on February 4 and stated that there was need for such a national hydraulic laboratory as indicated by the bill. He also stated that although he believed the Corps of Engineers needed data from such a laboratory perhaps as much as any other agency of the Government, there were other agencies that also required much more data than now available on the subject of hydraulics.