The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-15
TAKING THE
j. 8. CENSUS
Seventy thousand People to
Be Employed as
Enumerat0rs.

1t will require an army of 10000
people to take the thirteenth census in
1910.
The task of making the enumeration
of the 90,000,000 people in the United
States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico
and in Guam, Samoa and the Panama
Canal Zone viii be one of enormous
proportions. It will be the most gigan-
tic work of enumeration that has ever
been attempted in this or any other
country, and it is intended to reach
the acme of correctness and thorough
ness. Not merely count and compiIa-
ton concerning the population alone,
it will include census of agriculture,
manufactures, mines and quarries.
Director S. n. d. North, of the Cen
sus Bureau, is already getting ready for
the thirteenth census. He has been
planning it for year or more.
1t was hoped by Mr.. North that the
Crumpaeker bill to provide for the
thirteenth and subsequent decennial
censuses would be passed the last SEES
sion of Congress. But it failed of
measures of Importance by reason of
the rush at the close of the session and
the anxiety of the Congress leaders to
hurry the session to an end.
The Crumpacker bill, however, will
doubtless be passed early the next ses-
sion. 1t is the first bill of high privi-
lege on the House calendar, and it is
expected it will be taken up the first
or second day of the session and dis
posed of by the House 1t has not
yet been acted on by the Senate Com
mittee on Census, that committee hav-
ing held back until the House had
opportunity to pass the measure. No
delay in the Senate, either in commit
tee or on the floor, is anticipated.
THE LARGE COST.
1t will cost about $14,O00,000 to take
the thirteenth census but this is not
carried in the Crumpacker bill, as it is
on the House calendar. 1t was in the
bill at first, but the Speaker and Chair
man Tawney, of the House Committee
on Appropriations, thought it unwlse
to make so large an authorization year
before it would be used, and there was
also a feeling that the appropriation
should be put in one of the regular
appropriation bills, as the legislative,
executive and judicial bill. The coming
session of Congress will no doubt APP
propriate literally for census purposes.
a census of the Philippines will not
be included in the coming decennial
census, for the reason that one was
taken in 1908, and it is doubtful wheth-
er the Philippine government would
care to bear the cost of another enumer-
alton so soon.
Important changes in the taking and
compilation of the census and in the
method of publication of the returns
viii be made. For one thing, the re-
turns will be greatly condensed. The
twelfth census required ten volumes.
1t Is the expectation Of Director North
that the thirteenth census will be pub
hshed in six volumes or seven at the
outside. The mortality statistics of the
last census viii be dropped. They were
found unsatisfactory as collected at the
last decennial census. The reduced
number of volumes will considerably
lower the cost of the thirteenth census.
A change that is believed to be in the
interest of accuracy and completeness
Will require the enumeration of popu-
lation to be made as Of April ID instead
of June /, as has been the case here
tofore. The reason for this is inter
esting. The population of the United
States is exhibiting more and more a
tendency to go to the seashore and the