The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-21

ninth section Of the bill which have proposed providing
for the compensation Of marshas, says
Fof every bundled nhabitans enumerated and de-
scribed they shah receive, in all incorporated villages,
owns and Cities containing than 10000
81 b0 in all subdivisions not included In such villages,
tyfve inhabitants TO the square mle " per hundred &c
The second section Of the bill provides that
.The ad naIsha shall as far as practicable bring the
whole OF her districts into subdivisions, which shall by
estimation, contain no more than 10000 inhabitants"
In city OF 10000 persons, what is the compensation
the marshal will receive He will receive, sir, $500 in
a city. The next is
la all subdivisions not Included in such villages towns,
Cities containing more than seventy hve
inhabitants 10 the square mile, two dollars for each hun
bred" eU aIIaa r
Now supposing the 900 inhabitants are spread over
country twenty miles square, instead OF being collected
in city do not take into consideration the number Of
houses within that 20 miles square not at all only
increase the per centage twenty-five per cent, and give
him ~ so for every hundred instead OF ~ 90 Tor every
hundred-what amount does he then receiver Not
thirteen and odd dollars as asserted BY the senator MT
UkpERwooD;l but twenty hundred multiplied by ~ so
gives him five hundred dollars. The next is, that
Il any subdivision contains less than seventy five
and more ,sn y n % an % IN
population being increased rather the space over which
is spread. 10 the extent Of twenty square miles pro-
bsns aea to reach
What then, will he receive at " 50i He will receive
$500 iqE taking the census q that IOWA. parish q eoun
Snt ten thousand He has to ride over len niles square
and for population of 10000 persons what shall we
pay himl -Four cents. What does it amount to Four
il makes nothing like The. amount which my friend
supposes for the mileage has nothing to do with the
calculation; tits the number of population t'sf
Now the county In which reside at home is about
twenty miles square, with population of 10000. The
marshal will receive two cents per hundred, amounting
to $500. The next adjoining county has four hundred
has fifteen thousand population, and the marshal will
only receive III IS, according 70 my bill and why Be-
cause the population is all directly within the city OF Sa.
vannah-probably within quarter OF mile square, and
can all be reached within few hours.
Now, that is the why we presented this plan.
Every knows what he s TO receive. He knows the
population is about twelve thousand, for example; he
knows nearly the extent which he is TO travel and
what the number of individuals to the square mile,
and he tell in moment what he is to receive He
receives this compensation for the extent OF country
which he has to travel increasing SO cents in the
hundred, according 10 the increased sparseness OF the
populations and as will be inferred, i is therefore
good plan said that there is agreat inequality in the
amounts paid to different deputy marshals. This diver
sity Of payment arises out Of the locality We have to
do the best we can and in no instance, under the plan
that have proposed any assistant receive $500
For taking 10000 in city, according to the bill, he is
only paid $500; and he is required to subdvide cities,
few cases OF fraction oversay Fl 900 or 1900. Your
comprehensive compensation is too limited and too diff
cult to be understood by the country and by the officers
who are to execute the law 1t may be sound as .
mathematical demonstration but il should be plain,
comprehensive, and easily understood by all classes
When the bill have presented shall be offered to the
Senate and the various parts OF the law considered there
will be found consistency in it. is 10 be compre
hended and intended to be carried into execution by this
M. UNDERWOOD. Mr.. President, | do not intend
to do anything more than to answer the question of my
friend on the right Mr.. DAwsokl want to show him
will work, He commences by city Well, will take
city or town of 1000 nhabtants-scaered over four
miles squarethat is, two miles every way Well. 1000.
supposng persons in each family, makes two hun
bred families The square root OF four square miles is
two. The census taker will have 14-which is the
square root Of 2oO-muliped by two, making 2s miles
travelled over TO get the population there,
ton, to show how that rule will work, if you bring it
down to mile, or four miles, or up to five millions of
number Of families il viii show precisely the number Of
square miles they will have to travel to get to each c
The only possible objection to the rule u.s. that they will
not be precisely scattered like dots equdsant from each
olher in parts OF the country: there will be
gregaied more IN one part than IN another but It oPe-
rates in favor OF the poor census taker II is to give
him few dollars; this is all the harm which il does
MIR. DAVIS, Of Massachusetts, The committee found
this question, as the Senate already know, very com
pIicaied question They compelled bestow much
attention upon it, There complaint at the last
sus, and what appeared TO be very just complaint The
il was in Others in which the labor done less II is
very complicated question. In the first place, in order
10 establish Just arrangement OF compensation, you
want to know how much service man can perform
that is, how many persons he enumerate in given
length Of time II you only settle that question, all
the rest easy You can then readily determine what will
be reasonable compensation The honorable senator
from Kentucky Mr.. UsDERwooDl has bestowed great
deal OF labor and attention upon the subject labored
n, il myself and made table which might perhaps have
been satisfactory to the Senate though il goes much
more into detail than is desirable II not very easy TO
determine he main question involved; and il must ne
cessary depend very much upon conjecture II 10 not
very difficult TO tell how many square miles man can
traverse. That be settled by any who under
in the question OF time consumed in travelling over
more and less sparsely populated country. This is
an important element OF the calculation. Well,
sir, my friend from Kentucky turned his mind upon
this subject, and went into il especially with view
of finding the nearest approximation 10 exact dis
tfbution Of compensation Having worked out his
rule he applied Il extensively TO the results exhibited
by the utrs made at the last census and found that il
went great way towards correcting the inequalities
which were complained OF then. 1t seems TO work ad
mirably we'll He had the advantage OF having actual
existing cases before him, and OF thus bringing his rule
to the OF actual application. He had satisfied
himself 10 the fesu AID as have said he has be.
slowed great deal OF attention upon IT, am, confess,
obliged myself 10 take many parts upon trust as have
not gone into minute examination of the workings
of the rule the honorable himself but have
every confidence in his results rely upon his judgment
and skill in this matter far than upon sny own II
that il is the best rule that has been pro.
posed, and that il should be adoped by the Senate Be-
eecton, which | wish to propose. Il has been sug-
gested 10 that in some the marshal himself
may desire TO take the and that in that event.
there is no provision for his conversation all the pro-