The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-15

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lows il you congregaie the population Of 400 square
miles into the area Of 100 square miles into one corner
Of the county, you relieve the travel Of the take
but one-haf But We know that there IL no such
centratioa. think therefore. that the rule which
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lieye the marshal in his travels; thar is all.
/ have taken The trouble TO take up the census bill
containing Sc'. 100 square nss wiz ss dsa
grades Of population that they propose TO by
their different grades Of compensation Now wish 70
show 70 the Senate what system OF compensation they
would have under We provisions Of the Hoase biL 4
being reduced % days work You take 800. as 600 or
any number OF people that can be counted in day.
Gentlemen may assume their own daia; but whatever
to the number OF days that will require TO take given
number OF population and you can ascertain with
sonabie accuracy the number Of miles that would be
cessary TO be travelled TO do it. ssra
lfyou take 400 square miles, with population OF 10
to the square mile this bill from the House proposes
Compensation will give s53a Now. suppose thar in.
stead of 76 TO the square mile. there should be a. Then
the House bill proposes TO pay $a % per 100. which
would give 5000. Now, according TO that the man who
does the least work. where there is diminnon OF fco
the population 10 the square mile. receives $l34
than the man who does more work You may take up
these various grades OF compensation, and you will find
al every step that the House bill will compensate the
man for doing the least work By giving him money
than the taker who does the most For instance
there be 81 to the square mile according the House
bill the compensation will be $459 but If there be but
4s to the square mile. the compensation will be $4so
thus giving to the who does the least work $3l more
than TO the other. Take OF the other grades. If
there be 20 to the mile. he will get $3.50; but If
there De but q he will get saae-the latter receiving
have shown you now, by what you did in Is4o, the
enormous injustice You practised in paying some census
takers at the rate of cents and fraction per head
while you bring others down two and half cents per
head as in Massachusetts, According to this BILL Ishow
that i is inevitable in single county to pay in some in
stances the who does the least work than
is paid 10 man who does more work-S31 in another
case, $40 in another, and Ss in another case. | en-
Gus 10 70 into these eompcalea calculations now 81,
any gentleman can make them for himself and II the
House and the Senate should have COMMITTEES Of confer
ence upon this subject, and will allow to appear be-
fore them. will calculate the square root for them And
i can be shown further that, according to this bill from
ne h0use 90 I one Gass nsy pay an v o. PEI
per day. with variations carried out between 50 co. the
lowest, and So 90, the highest. s8
Now, sir, will ask question. Has not the Ameri-
can Senate intelligence enough to adopt rule for this
matter instead OF conducting il in manner which. il
individual were TO adopt in the conduct Of his private af
fairs. would lead to think that his estate ought be
taken away from him, and put into the hands of trus-
tees' have directed mysaftenton to this thing, and
have found remedy, and plain remedy. as have
Mr.. DAVIS, of Massachusetts,, (in his seat) What
will be the effect Of your remedy
suppose Mr. President that he will not be able in gem
eral, to take more than two hundred in day will
give the elements upon which ! made tina, suppositon-
Ia the northern States suppose as have already stated.
six to family would be about average. Well, sir il
you take two hundred per day, and divide that by sir
m s soa io vn am,ss & and No 10 How
sus-aker at each familyl suppose if he get off in
twenty minutes, after exchanging compliments with the
usually made by the census-kes riding around through
the countyif he got of in twenty minutes he mightbe
considered as doing very well Six persons to family.
and twenty minutes in inquiring at each family. will
make eleven hours per day visiting and stopping
twenty minutes at each family, there being thirty
three iamiies. without allowing him time feed his
that II may be, perhaps, little amusing 10 minds that
faier themselves that they very great when they
and consider little minute things like this; but sir,
the habit OF my mind to regard those minds greatest
which look at "mtes" well .'mounains." think
all these things have to be considered and you cannot
get along in bill OF this sort without considering them
You must 60 into these minute matters, that constitute
II you take two hundred. which have done, and sup
pose that you will have from thirty 10 thirty. three
families, and then make an allowance Of 6fiesen
get in two hundred persons per day. have allowed ten
cents per mile according 10 my mode. 1he compensa
~ say and 40 more Two would
will be - for enumeration and 80 33 for travelling In
every instance taking county with four hundred square
miles, and going through the whole OF calcula-
ton upon the rule which have prescribed the result
is this: IL will vary but very es3 So. 50 50. % So.
80 53 % 49, SO ~ 80 H. 80 70. 80 73 80 73 % SO,
the rates OF compensation. 1.-THE travelling and OF
enumeration precisely the same, and " they 33t
cents each, then there would be the parlcIe OF a
fraction difference IN the rate OF compensation per day
II would be precisely the same whether there were
seventy 10 the square mie or ten 10 the square mile
But inasmuch you allow for travelling only ten cents
and the estimate which have made is based upon two
hundred per day the enumeration, which will give 81
per daythe travelling and uneration being iden-
teal regards the days work makes the little der-
ence have named il shows that the rule have given
operates uniformly. II u equally applicable to every
conceivable case and produces sopehing like uni-
ormy in the United States by which YOU get clear OF
these inequalities which have ponIed
will not detan the Senate much longer have said
from the first TO the last upon this subject than
wished TO have sad and hope have now got clear OF
il, and that forever. fE
II is my business. as conceive, TO show You how un
the past has been, and 10 sndeavor TO present facts
TO the Senate, the hope that remedy might be
prescribed No person had offered remedy until the
Senate bill presented. by which yon undertake TO
certain the amount OF travelling and The amount OF labor
performed in the enumeration. think both can be as
ceuained with reasonable certainty therefore think
OF the opinion that this calculation cannot be made.
and il will be folly to go into H. let i all Co. and pur
the beaten track, practising these inequalities to the
end Of time. s2
will make one more remark, sir. According 10 the
Senate bill these marshas will have calculation 10
make and that is of the exceIlences OF the plan
Suppose that you take this mode Of comuensaf,oa