The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-03-14
TO TAKE CENSUS
An Army of Forty Thousand Men VIII
Be Employed to Do the Work.
All Applications for Office VIII Receive At
tention, But the Applicants viii Be
Subject to a Rigid Examination
Before appointment.

cial statement made Saturday by Di-
rector Merriam and Assistant Director
Wines. Director Merriam starts for
Minnesota Saturday afternoon, leaving
Assistant Director Wines in charge
On Gov. Merriam's return Dr. Wines
will go home to settle his private af-
fairs. Meantime there will be no con-
slderation of appointments and it
will be at least 80 days
yet before another selection OF
a staff officer is made, with the proba-
bic exception of Prof. Henry Gannett,
of this city, as geographer. This is in
accordance with decision of the di-
rector Saturday that in his absence
assurances nor encouragement for any
given. Several of the officials selected
Thursday night have qualified and the
active preliminary work will begin at
once. The statement of policy follows:
''As to prospective appointments to
office 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, thewell known geographer of the
geological survey, who was the political
and statistical geographer of the last
census, has been asked to take charge
md if the geological survey is willing
TO spare him sufficiently to undertake
this work he will be entrusted with it
md given an absolutely free hand.
enumerators in July, 1900, there will be
no clerks wanted save such small
skeleton force as would be needed to
take care of the correspondence and of
fee work preliminary to TAX
ing of the census. When the schedules
come back there will be large force
of employees appointed. All applica-
tons for Office will receive considera-
been received and placed on file.
While the impression has gone abroad
that the census is to be refuge for in
competency, the truth and the actual
facts are that all applicants will be
subjected to examination before APP
pointment, which will be asrigid as the
examinations before the civil service
commission. No political influence
the census payrolls of whose compe-
tency to do the work to be assigned
him the director is not satisfied in adj
vance. And, Furthermore, if any en-
ploye is found to be incompetent on
trial such employe will be discharged
regardless of his or her political back
ing. The examinations of employees will
be directed not so much for the testing
Of their general information and capac-
-ty as it will be their fitness for
the work to be done, as for example,
40 copyist who can not write or spell
satisfactorily will be appointed nor
First of all, after the general admins
trative officers are selected, there must
be 500 supervisors appointed and in
Cheir selection consultation will be had
with senators and representatives in
the respective states. 1t may be an
bounced also that senators and repre-
sentatives who do not belong to the
republican party will receive the
same fair treatment and consider
alton along this line that is given re.
publicanS
This will be no small task. Assum-
ing the population of the United States
at this time to be, in round numbers
so, 600. 600 people, there must be 400, OO(
sheets issued for the population SEIZED
ole alone. Adding to these the other
schedules, there will have to be in the
aggregate not less than half million
snch sheets in printed form issued. Al
this mass of paper will have to be man
ufactured and printed without delay
In counting the population every
individual will be represented by {
separate card and there will have to bt
manufactured and printed not less
than 100, 600, 600 of these cards. The
probability is that a system of ma
chine calculating which admits o.
counting facts in combination anC
which worked SO well in the last cen
sus will be adopted for that of 1900
The Office will have to selec
from the various devices the one
most satisfactory, and a sufficient
number to do the work must theT
be manufactured. The work will b'
pushed with all possible speed consist
ent with accuracy and every effor
made to avoid dra gging the work along
unnecessarily. Taken all in all, thu
complete lumber of appointments tina
will be made in the course of the cen
sus will be over As, 000
Fire at Mountain Grove, Mo.
MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo-, March 49,
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