The times., 1898-09-19
THE NEXT CENSUS.
Some PecuIiarities Noted in n Re-
niarkabie W6rE.


The Senate passed a bill introduced by
Mr. Carer. of 1.ontana, for taking the
1890 census. and it was referred to the
House Select Committee on the Twelfth
Census for changes in some details. The
next census, to be taken in 1900, though
limited in its scope TO an enumeration of
the inhabitants, their interests and indus
tries, and the country's products. is in
some other respects likely to be the most
remarkable yet taken by the United
States Government
Following the close of the Civil War
there was. of course. decrease in the
rate of growth, cons5q quen, upon the ia
talities incurred in, and caused by the
hosulities in the field and their after
effect. But in 1850 the increase was again
50 per cent, and in 1890 it was % per cent.
In the 1900 census of the United States
there will be shown not only an increase
in the area of the United States. but
an enormous addition TO the non-English
speaking population and a complete re-
adjustment of the fore!gn-born popula-
ton. due partly to annexation, partly to
immigration ard partly TO the normal
increase of the elements of population
In the year 1880 by the census of that
year, the number of residents of the
United States born in the Turkish Empire
was 1.2o5. BY the census of 1880 the num-
Der was 1889, an increase of 50 per cent
in ten years. Since 1890, however. there
has been a large influx of Turkish, Ar
menian. and Syrian immigrants. The last
report of the Treasury Department shows
the number of such immigrants for the
year ending July ], 1898, to have been H.
20. During the preceding year, ending
July 1, 1881, the Turkish immigration was
4732. and there are now. instead of 1SG5
Turkish inhabitants of the United States
more than 5000, a considerable number
of them in the large cities of the country.
BY the census Of 1880 the ratio of Chi
namen 10 Japanese inhabitants of the
United States was about $50 to J. There
Were at that time l0i 600 Chinese inhab-
itants and only 100 japanese. Hostile Fe /
eral lesis alton to the further arrival of
Chinese immigrants practically put an
end to it, and by the census of 1890 the
Chinese population of the United States
was l06,G00. little more than ii was ten
years before. The Japanese population
was 2,3G0 Since 1890 the effects Of the
Japanese-Chinese war have made them
selves evident and for the fiscal year
ending July /, 1883. the number of Chi
nese newcomers is 201 and of Japanese
newcomers 2 23O, q pre2onderance of ia
panese. In other words, there were more
Japanese new arrivals this year than
there were Japanese residents in the
whole country less than ten years ago.
4 still further addition to the country's
japanese population has been made by
the Hawaii annexation. BY the census
of 1896 there were in Hawaii 24407 ia
panese inhabitants and 21.6l6 Chinese in
habitants. The effect of these additions
will be to make. probably, the Chinese
population of the country in 1900 about
10000 and the Japanese population %, 600
or half many.
There are in Hawaii, moreover 16.G00
Portuguese inhabitants or almost iden-
tically the same number as were returned
for the whole United States by the census
of 1890. The present emigration TO this
country from Portugal, though small. is
steady. 1t amounts to 1850 persons a
year. 800 men and boys and 800 womer
and girls. By the addition of Hawaii and
by the natural increase through immigra-
ton, the Portuguese population of the
country will probably be three times as
great in 1900 as it was in 1890.
From Italy there is now an immigra-
ton of nearly GO 900 a year, and instead OF
$4,000 Italians, as were returned in 1890
and $4,000 Italian-born residents in 1890
there are likely to be this year nearly
100000. In no previous census has the
number of 1talian-born residents of the
United States been a material factor 1;
Will become SO in many parts of the
country.
BY the census of 1890 there were re-
turned in the United States 4 $50. 900 for
eign-born male adults. of whom 20 per
cent were or had announced their inten-
ton of becoming naturalized. and 30 per
cent were aliens. OF these aliens, num-
bering 100000. about 100000 could NOT
speak and could not understand the ENG
iisn language They spoke other lam
guages, and the percentages of such
aliens as could not speak English were
66 per cent in Arizona, co per cent in
Texas, and 30 per cent in New Mexico
the three political divisions of the cor,n
try in which chiefly the Spanish Ian
guage is spoken. Through the annexa-
ton of additional territory to the United
States the number of Spanish-speakina
inhabitants of the country, to be shown
by the Federal census of 1860. will be
greatly increased. and the proportion of
non English speaking aliens will be
largely, though less largely, Increased
too, in consequence of the fact that i'm
migration into the United States from
English-speaking countries has been very
small during the past ten years.