Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-02-08

CLEARING UP THE CEySUS.
Some Of the Work In this Department VERY
Unsatisfactory-Tarif ~BiIls-soeiaI
Gayeties.

puldtioH Win our cehsuS bureau anu It's
work on the last census. In spite Of all
the ayerments and explanations made
from time to time by the superintendent
and his under officers, there is no dis
guising the fact that some of the work
of this bureau is unsatisfactory. Com
plants have continually come in from
various localities and from different
industrial interests that the reports of
the bureau touching them were grossly
and VIGOROUSLY inaccurate, and to such
an extent has this feeling prevailed in
some instances that a ecoun at the ex-
pense of the aggrieved parties has been
undertaken. Besides this the enormous
expenditures of the bureau and the UNI
p~recedented delay in getting out the
reports demand some better explana-
ton than any so far given,
II ORIGINAL c
providing for the taking of the tenth
census fixed three million dollars as the
maximum cost of the undertaking.
Appropriations enormously in excess of
this sum have already been made, and
more money is still wanted. Congress
has made several appropriations for
completing the work. but does not
appear to be in n hurry in making the
appropriation of 800, 900 now 50 ur-
gently asked for, and some members
favor a thorough investigation into the
five million and a half dollars already
spent by the bureau before any more
money is appropriated.
CHARGES r orENLY MADE
that it has been improperly spent, and
that besides inciliciency, there has been
corrupt use made of the funds appro-
priated for the bureau. A proposition
is under consideration to appoint a COM
mission to revise the reports already in
type, with power to throw away the re-
ports of special industries which have
been provedto be full of errors. A pro-
minent member of the census commit
tee hit the nail square OF the head when
he said that there seemed to be a strong
inclination upon the part of GER
tain scientific and philosophical gen
tlemen connected with the census to
prepare elaborate
WORKS UPON SPECIAL TOPICS.
which they wished to have published at
the expense of the government, princi-
pally for their glorification, and not
for the Legitimate purposes of the cen
sus. He said he thought the commit
tee were unanimous in requiring that
the scope of the census publication now
in preparation should be clearly out
lined and confined to a practical limit,
as was contemplated by the census act.
Secretary Teller has telegraphed Gen
eral Francis Walker to come back to
Washington and clear up the work he
left in such a ~dcplorable state. The br-
e has been practically without n
head for some time.
The tariff question is occupying al
most the entire attention of Congress
now, and there is Il wide difference OF
opinion as to what will be the result.
The Republicans generally are
DETERMINED TO L a BILL THROUGH,
if possible, though there are some who
are not in accord with the measures
now pending. Senator Logan is work
ing hard to unite Republican Senators
upon the leading items of the Senate
bill, and expressed grief at the adoption
of the free lumber amendment, which
he thinks will have a tendency to set the
lumber producing sections against the
non-timber-growing localities. The
Senator, by the way, has been numer-
ously thanked and m~emorialized by va
rious grand army organizations, for his
course on the Fitz John Porter bill.
News from the States where Senatorial
elections are still pending, is eagerly
sought every day in the Senate Cham
Der. If Senator Ferry should fail of re-
election, it will not be necessary to take
up a collection in his behalf. lie is es-
timated to be worth anywhere from ST.
600, 900 to 81, 800, 900, and can skimp
along without his Senatorial salary.
The Senator made lumber while The sun
shonc. Senator Window will %contrive
to pay his grocer's bills from the inter-
est on his $1,000, 900 or 50, and lay up a
little for a RAINY day, should an migrate
full State put him on the list of retired
statesmen.
The unusual activity Of social circles
at the Capitol extends TO the White
House, which is now as lively a. it eyer
was. There have been
TWO STATE DINNERS
within two weeks, and Tuesday evening
there will be a grand rush at the Presi-
dents first public reception, At the
State dinner to General and Mrs. Grant,
the old custom of serving wine, which
Mrs. Hayes tabooed, was revived, and
there were seven wine-glasses at each
plate. During Mrs. Grants reign, she
ordered, for the White House banquets,
a long, fiat mirror, for the center of the
table, and this mirror and the Hiawatha
boat selected by Mrs. Hayes, are the
two handsomest ornaments OF the White
House table. This mirror is very beau
tifully and effectively arranged on, occa-
sions, with cushions of flowers. The
flower decorations, at the White House.
are always elaborate, and never give
the idea of ostentatious proiusion, as
they are all supposed t. come from the
White House conservatory, which IS,
however, only a pleasing fiction.
Among the most important of recent So
cial events outside the Presidential
mansion. was the fancy dress bah, given
by the daughter of Senator Miller, a
California belle. who was
BORN NDER A LUCKY STAR.
1t is not every young lady who takes it
into her pretty head to give a fancy
IracS hall that oap N bar fa4o- ...al