The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-03-16
FILIPINO REBELS.
TO TAKE CENSUS
An Army of Forty Thousand Men Will
be Employed to Do the Work
Am X
n" APpications for Once VIII Receive A..
eh''on' Bot the Applicants VIII Hs
subject to a Rigid Examination
Before Appointment.


minnesota Saturday afternoon. leavinc q
" assistant Director Wines in CHARGE
"h "ov' Merriam's return DR.. Wines
WI" go nome TO settle his private af
fairs. Meantime there will he no con.
Sideration of appointments and il
: VIII be at least 80 dovs.
: yet before another selection of
stan officer is made, with the proba-
oie exception of Prof Henry Gannett.
Vi inns city, as geographer. This is in
accordance with decision of the di-
rector Saturday that in his absence
there must 0e no promises Of Office no,.
assurances nor encouragement for anv
gwen Several of the officials selected
thursday night have qualified and the
active preliminary work will begin at
once 1he statement of policy follows: |
AS 10 prospective appointments to
once the services of no more staff off.
GERS can be utilized at present. and
there Will be no others selected within
certainly 80 days Prof. Henry Gan
nett the well known geographer of the
geological survey, who was the poIitical
ana statistical geographor of the last
census, has been asked 10 take cbarco
OF the same work for the coming ccnsus.
ana II the geological survey is WILLING
10 spare him sufficiently to undertake
this work he will be entrusted with il
ana given an absolutely free hand.
OnhI the schedules come back from the c
enumerators in July. 1900 there will be I
no clerks wanted save such small f
skeleton force as would be needed 70 j
-eke care of the correspondence and Of +
ice work preliminary TO TAX II
ng OF the census. When the schedules p
ome back there will be a large force o
u employees appointed. All applica-
Ions for Office will receive considera- m
ION and large number already have &c
cen received and placed on file. vt
While the impression has rome abroad W
nat the census is to be a refuge for in 81
the truth and the actual
'cts are that all applicants will he sa
ioJected to examination before an to
ointment, which will be as r;cid nc tbo tic
taminations before the civil service WI
No political influence
III be sufficient to put an employe on Ii
e census payrolls of whose compe-
ncy 10 DO the work to be assigned :"
IN the director is not satisfied in ad-
nee And, furthermore, if anv en-
oye is found to be incompetent ON !
al such emplOye will be discharged list,
yardless of his or her political back in
:. The examinations of employees will of
directed not SO much for the testino abl
their general information and capac- to
as 1t will be their fitness for civi
work to be done, as for example. GOV
copyist who can not write or spell mil
''4"c'oriIy VIII be appointed nor tion
culators who can not calculate mill
ST OF all, after the general admins dinf
tive officers are selected, there must exn,
500 supervisors appointed and in Gna
" '''e''ion consultation VIII DC had ageI
h senators and representatives in land
respective states. 1t may be an will
"oeu ALSO thaI senators and repre- arm,
a'i'eS WHO 40 not oe-ong TO the GERS,
'ollcah party Will receive the milit
i"iI treatment ana consider statr
D along TINS line that IS given re- lato
leans. Tho -
lis will be no small task. Assum- ues y
The population of the United States or to
lis time to be, in round numbers. mann
O'Oo0 people, there must De iOOO0O macy
is issued for the population sched- men.
lone. Adding to these the other conte
iules, there will have to be in the point
egate not less than half million war
sheets IN printed form issued All dent,
mass of paper will have to be man point,
ured and printed without delay. cover
ounting the population every cover
'uuai viii DC represented by tary 6
ate card and there will have to be
featured and printed not less PRES
100, 900, 900 of these cards. The
billty is that a system of ma McKin
calculating which admits of ton
ing fects in combination and
worked so we'll in the last CEN
III be adopted for that Of 1900. WAS
office will have to select hanha
the various devices the one nnal
satisfactory and = suAiciort preside
r TO do the work must then Inc p
nufactured. The work will be next vi
with all possible speed consist A'iantl
ith accuracy and every effort 'he RE
o avoid dragging the work along rresioe
ssarily. Taken all in all, the ana MI
te lumber of appointments that 'ary u
made in the course of the CEN the par'
be over $1,000. Ior co
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