...suggestion of the President in his annual message, that " the decennial enumerations might be extended so as to embrace authentic statistical returns of the great...necessarily affected by the legislation of Congress." As the time for taking the last census approached, the whole subject began to be agitated again in...

...next census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the suggestion presents itself whether the scope of the measure might not be usefully...authentic statistical returns of the great interests specially intrusted to or necessarily affected by the legislation of Congress. The accompanying report...

...next census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the suggestion presents itself whether the scope of the measure might not be usefully...authentic statistical returns of the great interests specially intrusted to or necessarily affected by the legislation of Congress. The accompanying report...