Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-08
THE CENSUS OFFICE FORCE.
About sisteen Hundred People to he Dis
charged In . Few Weeks.

About sistsen Hundred People to be Dis
charged in Few Weeks.
The force in the census office within the next
seven weeks will be reduced about l.60o in ad-
dition to the reductions in salaries aggregating
about two hundred that will be made during
the present month. This reduction in force
Is due to the fact that the work in
nearly every division of the census Office is
rapidly drawing to close. There are twenty
nve divisions in the census office. The total
number OF persons employed May 81 was S,05s.
vi TINS number l.ASe were employed in the
population division. This force will be re-
tained until July 81, when the serv-
ices OF at least 800 clerks can be dis
Pensed with. Four weeks later the number
In TINS division will be reduced to 400 The
next most important branch of the census
work IL the division Of farms, homes and mort
cages. rhere are 5s7 persons employed in this
preparation of the eleventh census, but
collecting these statistpieps .0p', Il is the
intention to carry the present force in this di-
VISION until all the transcripts have been made
from the schedules and all the circulars mailed.
ms work. II is expected, will be completed BY
september Is, when the force will be reduced
TO 2o0. Under the present appropriation the
work can then be carried on until April /, 1892.
IL wiii be necessary for Congress to make an
additional appropriation to complete this
branch Of the work.
PROPOSED REDUCTIONS.
The population division, the farms and mort
cages division, the printing division and the
administrative division, in the latter of which
are included all laborers, messengers and char
women, comprise 2,274 of the present Office
force of 3,05S. The remainder Of the
iorce comprises the divisions of the special
work OF the census. and it IL stated
that this work is sufficiently advanced to adj
init of decided reduction of force
without retarding the work. Daring the pres
emit week the number of clerks in the division
OF disbursements will be reduced from 80 TO &C.
geography from IS to 20; vital statistics from
~ to ~. and to 10 July L; church statistics to
8; educational statistics from IL to q; pauper-
ism and crime from 81 to 10; wealth, debt and
taxation from "a TO %; including division ten
consolidated with division nine; agriculture
from l42 to f25, manufactures from 149 to ia:
mines and mining to 5; insurance from % to z;
special classes from 81 to 20. Six divisions
have been abolished, the work completed
and hve others with from two to ten clerks
each aud finishing up the work. By the 18th
INST the force engaged on the special work of
the Census will be reduced to 500. By July
3lst this number will still further be reduced
to 800.
TIRE CONDITION OF THE WORK.
III reSard 10 tne cOnultlon OF the work OF the
census it is stated that some of the statistical
inquiries will have to be abandoned. The aggre-
gate population of the country by minor civil di-
vision VIII be completed, printed and bound in
preliminary form by August LIST next By strict
time it is expected 500 pages of the first vol
ume of the compendium will be ready for the
printer. By December or January next il is
ceiieved that the volume of the compendium
relating to population will be printed and ready
IN al t.rt.
will be issued as soon thereafter as possible
1t is expected that all the special
work with the exception of vital Stats
ties. agriculture and manufactures will be
completed and ready for the printer this year
When Congress convenes superintendent Por-
ter hopes to have ready, besides the digest and
population volume Of the compendium, the
volumes on church statistics. paupei ism and
crime, wealth debt and taxation, mines and
mining. transportation, statistics OF Indians,
and social stat isfics of ifipc