The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-30
TINE TWELFTH CENSUS.
Provisions OF the Bill to BE Reported to IN.
House To-Day

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2e.-The bill providi,s
for the twelfth general census. to DO taken IN
1900. prepared under the direction OF IN.
House Census Committee. will be reported "a
the House by Chairman Hopkins. Tho finish.
ing touches we're given to the measure ycs,er.
day and the report will be ready for sublni,.
sion tomorrow afternoon. The bill offers in.
terestinG contrasts to the measure author.
ixing the census OF 1890. and the lessons which
we're learned by the census takers nine ysa-s
ago and the changed conditions OF the coup.
try since then have formed the basis Tor
radical change OF plan in gathering the vital
and Industrial statistics OF the country IN
1900.
The official report OF the tenth census vs.,
not ompletely. published until nine years ana
four months aftersthe gathering OF statistics
had been completed. and the report NJ The
eleventh census. or census OF 1890. was ~.
published until eight years and three month,
after the work Of enumeration had beer IN.
ished.
The bin TO he reported to- morraw repaifc,
that tho final report on the census be- pub.
lished complete within two years. So that ,be
statistics will not have become obsolete. as wa,
the case with the late census. II has been lie.
cided by the House Census Committee that
the employees OF the Census Bureau shall not
be included in the classified civil service. The
argument 10 made that inasmuch as thu
enumerators. who will form the larger par, q,
the force, TO be employed on the census. are
n sss eTns,i fHsh c PshlsS e,vi ss c f Is hest ss 5 iSgq d
apply civil service rules to any class Of en-.
pl9yees engaged IN tbs work.
measure introduced some time ago in the
Senate. L proyidss that the tSking Of The
June Of that year. and that the work Of enrm.
Grafton be completed within fifteen DAYS IA
the cities, and thirty DAYS in the country dis.
tricts. The measure carries an appropriation
current year. Il viii devGlve. upon II" newt
of the work. 1t provides for the nruoln rment
OF q director at a salary OF SB.Oon Der aunum.
sions at $4,000: n chief clerk and q GeoGrarher
at salaries Of s.. 300 each ten clerks at ST ,S0U.
aries ranging from ol.2OO to S'ioO per annum,
ermIned by the needs Of the bureau. Each
geographical division Of the country, a. }e.
i sFn Iis,ri ny tine ned EsoG Ghs rSnrr rs If o} a, , s@ @M d
tendent. who will have u salary OF 81 ,OOO. Ths
number of grand divisions Of the census isto
be fye. named according to subjects. as the
divisions Of po2ulatton., mortality. manufan-
turing. mechanical establishments. aud a-ri-
culture. The helds Ct these grand divisions
experts in the several branches II the work.
1t is said that the enumeration, districts viii
not comprise more than from 1000 to 2.UUO
OF population. this Limitation hetng made
necessary by the rule that tho .work of emu.
meration shall he completed within fifteen Or
thirty DAYS. The enumeratorS will receive
daily wages of from 81 to ST, the larger sum he
ing paid to enumerators in large cities where
the work OF enumeration is more difficult
Each enumerator will have n much smaller
number of questions to, ask than Wa th" ease
in 1890. when the number was $50. and when
the work o! census taking was not only tedi.
Gus but consumed too much time.
For the first time in any census provision is
made in the pending measure Tor securing
statistics. OF mining in the United States, A.
though the work of enumerating the porula.
ton Is to be completed within a few days from
the time of beginning it, the director will be
allowed to pursue the collection Of statistics
IN regard 70 mining ana a nun per OF Other sun
agents.