New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-16
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER IT, 1897

whether I had made the statement that the work X
OF taking the last census cost Ooo more ore Tne
Office had been made under the ClvlI service LueS
and if had made such statement on Whae Taya va
made by me in official report on pan ior q
permanent Census Service made IN t accI Fedara
Census. approved March 49, 1896. The report was
on Dece Sd T Gons rs seeond
session. The statement alluded 10 is on page oi
Tbe absolute lutte necessity Of bringing the whole
Census force into the CLASSIFIED serVice In accord
ance with the act of January l6 1S3 and the
amendments thereto and the rules hereunder
seems to me perfectly apparent. Had this been the
rule in the Eleventh Census. there would nave oeen
in my opinion, a saving Of at least %coc'e ana
more than years time.
should have very much preferred that the s. state
ment made relative TO the saving Of at least % 9;,
@ could have nave caed o as the data on WHEN base
this opinion. shall furnish them in doing TINS his
of the Department of Labor and that OF the Elev-
enth Census Office. and thus place myself IN an
criticism. The comparison make is one between
systems, and not between administrations under
the head Of the Department Of Labor j was for
@ In chareG of he m
some degree my own OF me ne TehsTs
The work Of the Department and that of the
Census Office is Of the same general grade. Inc
enumerators special agents in both cases. cor
respondence. as rule being used simply for pur
poses Of explanation or verihcatiOn when needed.
The quality Of the work performed by the. Census
Office and by this Department need not be brought
into comparison. beyond this: That all the in
vestigatiOns conducted by the Department of Labor
are quite difficult the most difficult inVesl-
cations conducted by the Census Office but the
of securing results may be compared the
facts exist for fairly just comparison of the cost
of production under two systems, the Department
of Labor operating under Civil Service rules. and
the Census Office being exemnt therefrom. The
cost OF production be ascertained by learning
the time and money cost Of specified units OF
production. The efficiency Of labor IN production
can be determined by the same method. To ascer-
tain the cost and thus the efficiency or production
under the two systems, like elements must be
brought into comparison statement OF the cQst
of production under the two systems VIII enaple
you to determine whether the opinion expressed
In the official report on permanent census CHlte
is fairly well substantated. To this end submit
the following table, which covers the productive
period of the Census ONCE and embraces the total
production of that office and of the Department OF
Labor for the same period l have not included IN
the following tabular statement the bulletins nor
the compendium published by the Census once.
nor the bmonthly bulletin and large amount or
material prepared by the Department or LABOR Tor
a report on the wages of the commercial countries
of the world. The bulletins and the compendium
of the Census Office transcripts 10 a large
extent the material being drawn from the tabula-
tons made for the final reports. The comparative
table is follows: -
In the Census Bureau and In the Department OF
Labor from April |. 1889, to June 30. 1897: