Abstract
The establishment of a permanent census bureau has long been advocated by those most familiar with the numerous practical defects of our antiquated census system, both on grounds of greater economy and of improved results. Under a joint resolution of the first session of the present Congress, Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, was directed to make a report on the advisability of placing the preparations for the census of 1900 upon a permanent basis, and the results of his labor are now before Congress in the form of a Bill to provide for a permanent census service. The bill contains provision for an enumeration of the population at the quinquennial periods intermediate between the present decennial enumerations, thus making general the means of verifying our knowledge of the population of the country every five years. It is unnecessary to point out how indispensable such frequent censuses
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