Arizona republican., 1899-02-06
CENSUS BILL READY
Will Be Presented to inc
 House This Week.
Provides That All thS Statistics to Be Complied Shall BS Completed and Published Within Two Years From June 1900.

Washington, Feb. 5.--The bill pro viding for the twelfth general census
 to be taken in 1900. prepared under the direction of the house census commit tee, vii be reported to the house by Chairman Hopkins The finishing
 touches have been given to the meas
 ure and the report will be ready for
 submission this week. The bill offers
 interesting contrasts to the measure authorizing the census of 1890, and the lessons which were learned by the cen sus takers nine years ago and changed conditions of the country since then have formed the basis for a radical change of plan in gathering the vital and industrial statistics Of the country in 1900
 The official report of the tenth cen su5 was not completely published un- til nine years and four months after the gathering of statistics had been completed. and the report of the elev- enth census, CT census of 1890, was not published until eight years and three months after the work of enumeration had been finished
 The bill to be reported this week re- quires that the final report on the cen sus be published complete wllhin two years so that the statistics will not have become obsolete, as was the case with the late census. It has been de- cided by the house census committee that the employees of the census bureau shall not be included in the classified civil service. The argument is made tEat inasmuch as the enumeratOrs, who will form the larger part of the force to be employed on the census, are necessarily such persons as cannot be found in the classified civil service, it is best not to apply civil service rules to any class of emp-oyes engaged in the work
 The house bill differs radically from the measure introduced some time ago in the senate. It provides that the taking of the census of 1900 shall be begun on the first day of June Of that year, and that the work of enumera- tlon he completed within fifteen days i'll the cities and thirty days in the country districts. The measure carries an appropriation Of $1 100000 to defray the expenses of the current year. IL
  provide funds for the continuance of the work. It provides for the eppcint- ment of director at a salary of S6 900 per 2nnum, and an assistant director at S4,000; the necessary number of heads of geographical divisions at $3,- GOO; a chief clerk and a geographer at of S2,500 each; ten clerks at S1 800. twenty clerks at $1, 500 and if teen clerks at S1 400. Other clerks will be appointed at salaries ranging from S1,200 to $60O per annum, the precise number in each grade to be determined by the needs of the bureau Each geo. graphical division of the country, as determined by the geographer, is to Ee divided into districts under the charge 0f superintendent who will have a salary of $1.00O. The number of grand divisions of the census is to be five. named according to subjects as the di- visions of population, mortality, manu- .acturing, mechanical establishments, md agriculture. The heads of these grand divisions are expected to be se- ected for their skill as experts in the several branches of the work
 It. is said that the enumeration dis -1icts will not comprise more than rom 1900 to 2,000 of population, this imitation being made necessary by the 'ule that the work of enumeration shall be completed within fifteen or thirty days. The enumerators will re- ,eive daily wages of from s to S6. the arger sum being paidsto enumerators 1 n large cities where the work of emu neration is more difficult Each emu neratOr will have a much smaller l lumber of questions to ask than was l he case in 1890, when the num6e- was l 50, and when the work of census talk | ng was not only tedious but consumed | co much time
 For the first time in any census pro- Tlsion is made in the pending meas Ire for securing statistics of mining in | he United States. Although the work | f enumerating the population is to be | ompleted within few days from the | ime of beginning it, the director will | e allowed to pursue the collection of | tatistics in regard to mining and lumber of other subjects by means of and special agents