The New York herald., 1870-02-08

enumeration TO the present condition OF the purified
Sconsusution. He reviewed the provisions OF the
House Dill, showing that under II Six hundred thou.
sand dollars was TO be paid for work tor which In
$500 the Marshals received forty-one thousand dol
could not agree TO add another class OF government
omclals 10 the army OF collectors and assessors OF
sa 1a .ner numerous assistants registers OF
slonal district was now supplied The dis.
tTct superlntendents, provided for by the
classes OF government officials which had OF
iate years been created. The new appointees
could not possess the same opportunities
for local information possessed by ofYlclas already
created But apart from this after trial OF seventy
Years I'm, .netS S was nothing in the way OF proof TO
snow Lnal tue system OF marshas had been shown
70 De deIective. he admitted the work 10 be done
was greater tnan thai OF 1S60 but tnen the number
rious provisions OF the House bill with those OF the
laws OF 1850. showing that compensation under the
latter was made In accordance with the duties per-
formed four TO SIX dollars per day being earned by
the enumerators, while the present propos lion
70 nx rate pei diem whether the pay was earned
or not assuming upon this basis That an enulne-
rator could return Two thousand persons, twenty
Thousand cnumerators would be required, and cal
culating that eacn occupies twenty days in the pre-
llminary work OF distributing blanks the aggregate
time would amount to four hundred thousand days,
the compensation lor which would pe one million SIX
hundred thousand dollars. Adding to this the cost
OF the blanks, the volume ol expense woud
De sweled 10 one million seven hundred aud twenty
thousanu douars, Without making any allowance
for postage The entire cost OF the census m 1880
including TWO hundred ana Iorty.seyen thousand
uoHats ~ SlSuiI VI uisiOldl Soulnefn Claimants,
remaining unpaid, was million two hundred
and ninety-two thousand two hundred ana six
dollars. lns amount embraced every Item OF
expense from the une ut which the gathering OF the
census was ordered until the last return had been
brought back TO the Department OF the Interior Yet
the proposition now made was that tile first blast on
the buRle-that the mere preliminary notice OF the
work 10 be Degun-shoud cost half million dollars
IN excess OF the entire cost OF the OF 1850.
IL wouu be for the Senate 70 declare whether in It's
opinion the importance and value Of the work was
30 enhanced as TO justify TINS increased cost Mr..
Conkiing argued further In demonstration OF the Oh
Jectionaoc features OF the douse blil and minated
tat ne would, &C the proper time, submit proposi-
Senate upon II.
Mr. SUMNER, (rep) OF Mass, SAID our national dc.
velopment III resources ana population, ana In the
means when science applied Tor measuring our ad-
vance, had been such IA TO render tue act oil 1850
adequate Tor the purposes OF the proposed census.
lie llked econoiay, but did not desire practse
at the expense OF the countrys best interests, be-
neving that the national wealth would be promoted
ny Juplcious expenditure TO secure the taxing OF
census ol the most approved character and The diff
fusion OIL knowledge VI our great resources. lie
proceeded to show that the average compensation
or enumerators, under the House bll would be one
dollar and eighty cents per day and that the differ
ence IN cost between this process and the system Of
marshals would not be materially different.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH OF REPREsEN-
TATlvE.
At halfpasI three O'Clock message was received
rom the House OF Representatives announcing the
death OF Representative HoAg, OF ONO. After re.
MARKS by MessrS. Thurman and sherman the
usual resolutions or respect Tor the memory Of the
deceased were adopted and the Senate adjourned.