Show fp CENSUS REPORT the full report of tho neit ire tary 18 intO aban uw reports af pf or SiDar beean ocer idea oj a take annam of the people view tb congressional gressional CoD apportionment the constitutional fathers hati o conception of a census as now made fortunately tuna tely however the provision made by them has to accommodate itself to tho expansion of its elfand no legal obstacles are of factory work the law passed last march aara le in the authority it besin vesin the d can af tiie daus Ds us aad who fills the office is of all men in the united states conspicuously competent to do the work m hand there is practically no danger of incompleteness the last census was excellent and the next will probably be an improvement pro upon that one it is easy to make each a little better than its predecessor but in one respect the last was a dismal failure its publication was so slow as to defeating atin a very large measure the object in view some of the volumes were only issued a few months ago it came out in piece meals which was all right but the interval between the volumes was exasperatingly long pully half of the work was so long in being published that it might better have been left undone what is the use of gleaning a body of statistics about the state of a given industry in 1880 when the information is to ba withhold until the latter part of the cecada there is no satisfaction in generalizations based on data already nearly obsolete ayery part of the census should be reaal for the printer within the shortest possible time after the field work has been done PORTER promises to have several volumes ready by aest fall FRANCIS A superintendent erin of the tenth well said in his recommendation to the secretary of the interior every year and every month therefore which can be saved ui the compilation and publication of the census statistics adds appreciably to their value renews the same recommendation for early publication and in addition to this he offers a suggestion for accomplishing shing the result he saya that experience peri ence in the printing and publishing the tenth census makes it imperative in order to secure prompt publication li that the census office exercise control of the final preparation 01 the reports |