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

mind for the first time think i win be prudent TO let
NEXT census By hat lime hey viii Be- enabled properly
and perfectly % sppIehend t. have no doubt Of the
ruth o. TIE calculation butt doubt the capacity Of de
winch he senator sapposss does not exist when
come examination Of the matter He safes u Wa
twosnda half CENTS per bead 70 take the population
S Ss Ss,s 2, y % h H. ss,s q Mssscha
sstts The population = greater there,
The sguase miles, than in other States Msssacnuss'u
MY have p0gsson Of the ss q South
thsv nav nos have twenty 1--we All these inequalities
srise out Of the density OF population we az unasl
sa-r 4 thcrovhly Now, can take hundred families
n ~ Sssss 81 Massachusetts sooner than can take
tan ~ South Carolina some parts OF the State OF Geor
sa We must adop, general rule ana .ne eomIenss
~ sausre mile That has been the rule uniformly
adoptsd and when you come TO carry i out you will
ascertain that i !; very nearly e near sh. a. We Gan
Principles in legislation We cannot get on otherwise
The sher collecting bill for one Of the counties where
the population y SPARSE and for particular town or
district where the population very great gets the same
although not compelled 70 ride the same distance
There inequalities necessarily arng from using any
general principles Myown impression and belief now
H. that is better to take the amendment OF the House
Of Representatives, which is in conformity with all laws
which have been passed from the foundation Of the gov
eminent down to the present time and hereafter II II is
found to be true, have no doubt s from the state
mont Of facts from assistant marshals, that you may
work out the result with correctness in the other
way, It may be adopted But we have not now gentle
Il Is said to avoid this that il brought back to the
Secretary Of the Interior from every country within the
limits Of the United States Then will have to be calcu
lated the number Of square miles and the number OF
houses within each II will require clerk in the Depart
ment Of the Interior, where all returns to be sent to
make the calculation of the various counties Consider
ton made for every deputy marshal Of the district II
there three in county for every 20 000 according
to the law. there must be calculation Sir it is intro
ducng great deal OF confuson trouble and perpexity
when We have, under the old rule the certificate OF the
arshal Of the State, of the number of the square miles
the assistant marshal has taken. the number OF the
population, the law shows how much he shall receive.
think, 1t present. il is best to take the House BILL
and eaYe the consideration of ascertanng BY the square
root to mother ten years. when have no doubt the SUBJ
Nj. UNDERWOOD only wish to call the attention
to The inapness Of the Congress Of the United States TO
supposes il will take ten years for the Congress Of the
United States to comprehend plain arthmetcal rule,
Nj. DAWSON, Tin his seat) No. the people.
Mr.. UNDERWOOD. My friend says he did not mean
that members of Congress can only ascertain 1t IN ten
years. but that the people cannot ascertain short OF ten
Congress comprehend this thing clearly, as have ex-
planned it. They clearly what nobody can deny; but
they either have not the moral mness, under the conyc
tons which fash in minds, that they are reslsti.
be to make the change, they think the people have
not the capacity to know what the change Isl and they
say to them We will give you ten years to learn wheth-
tify my Constituents in that way. believe they have
the capacity to say at once, in the light OF those facts
which Ill the past exhibits to them that there an error
in this, . crying wrong. which deserves remedy.
How does my friend get around ita Does he pretend
to deny simple fact that cannot be denied Here are
the certificates from the departments here are the cen
tables in times past; here are the square miles IN
every school atlas in the country and here the sums
actually paid Now sir. what did You pay per head II
is the simple question in division, and apprehend there
is no school-boy who cannot work that sum out You
have nothing to do but to take the paid the mar
shall and assistants in each State and divide that BY the
population OF the State and gives you the result have
here fare facts gainsad, by which the marshal in
Massachusetts gets 81 cents, and the marshal in South
Carolina gets cents for performing the same sort OF
own State, with people and more territory who
gets 81 cents, and the marshal OF Mississippi gets 30
centsjust double for performing similar services just
along side and the marshal OF Mississippi having great
deal less to do than the marshal in Alabama Nobody
denies these facts nobody denies the figures All the OBJ.
lection. then il, that afraid OF making the change
We either have not the moral irmness to DO il ourselves
perceivng the TRUTH we are afraid that the people
will not understand it, and they will condemn our con-
duct Ihave no such fears myself.
he appeals the Of sherfs collecting money, serv
ing process. and marshas doing duties Of that sort In
reference to your federal courts you have system 70
pay mileage Mileage there is allowed, together with
The serving Of the process, when you reach the ind
vduas upon whom is to be served In regard to col
lectinr duties of sherifs cases OF that sort very often
happen, where there is very little troubles but we know
cur executive officers in counties constantly passing
from one end Of the country TO the other upon variety
of services which they necessarily have to perform and
we know that there is not the necessity OF making
allowance for travelling where the districts are small
there 10 In the present case, where you 60 upon sys
tenn, and where the elements OF compensation embrace
labor, and there two sorts OF paymentone for time
consumed in travelling and The other in taking the cen
sus, both being elements which you easily ascertain
Mr. DAVIS, OF Massachusetts think that the hon.
orabls senator from Georgia Mr. DAwsoxl labors under
arise out of this proposition owing TO the labors which
are required In asceainng the square miles, unless he
object 10 the amendment proposed by the House
OF Representatives; for will show you that their plan
s Just much founded upon square miles the plan OF
the Senate. That bill reads thus:
For every hundred inhabitants enumerated and de-
scribed each shall receive, n all incorporated
rand inhabitan,s, dollar aud twenty-five cents In all
subdivisions included in such villages Cities
containing more than sevcntyiye inhabi-
the square mile, dollar and seventy five
seventy and than hy inhabitants TO the
mile two dollars and twenty-five cents for each hundred,
&c. Flr u
II 10 founded upon square miles everywhere except in
villages and towns containing i've thousand inhabitants
and that work is Just much necessary carry this
plan OF the House amendment OF the House into effect
a. Il IL 10 carry the original bill OF the Senate.
The question being then take upon concurring in the
House amendment II was decided in the negative.
Mr.. DAWSON subsequently rose and said Merely
for the purpose OF making statement OF fact move to
reconsider the agreement TO reectthe amendment OF the
House few minutes since, that may have opportu-
nifty 70 state, that In the unity where reside, with