Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — PREPARING FOR THE CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

PREPARING FOR THE CENSUS.

Director Merriam Ready to Instruct His Supervisors. Census Director Merriam has organized a bureau for the instruction of Supervisors, and as soon as they are appointed the work of teaching them their duties will begin. It is hoped by Mr. Merriam that by the time Congress meets in December the whole corps of supervisors will have been thoroughly drilled, so that all the nominations may go to the Senate for prompt action by that body. The supervisors will have charge of the enumerators in their various districts, and just now the bureau is at work gathering data and preparing statements and maps which will show how many enumerators will be needed in each district and how the districts may best be paid out to be covered satisfactorily and within the thirty days allowed for taking the census next year. In appointing the census clerks in Washington, of whom there will be 2,000, the Democrats will be given a share.