People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — IT COSTS MILLIONS. [ARTICLE]

IT COSTS MILLIONS.

The Total Expense Attending the Taking of the Eleventh Census Will Be About $8,100,000 Washington, Jan. 3.—All work on the eleventh census will be completed and the matter turned over to the secretary of the interior by December 31, 1893. This will be required by the appropriation bill now being framed by a house sub-committee, of which Mr. Sayers, of Texas, is chairman. The tenth census cost in round numbers about $5,000,000, and the present will cost $8,100,000, the increase being largely due to the enlarged scope of the census. Up to date the cost of the census has been $7,260,000, and Mr. Porter was before the committee Monday to urge the passage of the bill appropriating $240,000 to carry him from March 4 to the end of the fiscal year.