no less than 180 of the permanent force of the Census Bureau. A very considerable proportion of the employees at salaries above $1,200 had to be demoted, a moderate proportion of those at $1,200 had to be reduced to $1,000, and a large proportion of those at $1,000 had to be reduced to $900. Subsequent vacancies which have occurred in the Bureau have permitted the restoration of a considerable number of the clerks to their former salaries, particularly of those who were reduced to $1,000 or $900.

The appropriation act of August 23, 1912, provided that the Civil Service Commission, in certifying eligibles from the examination registers for appointments to positions in the permanent census force during the fiscal year 1913 at salaries of $1,200 or less, should, subject to the law of apportionment, give preference to those who had been employed in the temporary Thirteenth Census force. In the case of several of the States, however, which take precedence in receiving appointments under the apportionment system, there are very few clerks upon the eligible registers who have had one year's experience in the Census Bureau. Consequently, while the Bureau has secured, and will hereafter secure, a considerable number of clerks for its permanent roll who have had the advantage of previous experience in census work, hardly more than half of the new permanent appointments will be of persons who have had such experience.

The appropriation act for 1913 also authorized the employment of not to exceed 175 temporary employees at salaries not to exceed $900 each, and appropriated $120,000 for that purpose. It was further provided that these temporary employees should be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor upon recommendation of the Director of the Census from among the former temporary Thirteenth Census employees. It was deemed best, in making these appointments, although not required by law, to apportion them among the States in proportion to population and then to confine the selections to persons actually present in the District of Columbia or in the immediate neighborhood, there being in nearly all cases an adequate number of former temporary employees from each State who were still present in the District or in the immediate vicinity. These employees were selected with reference to their efficiency while in the service of the Bureau and their experience upon the lines of work remaining to be performed.

The salary for these 175 temporary clerks was fixed at $720. Inasmuch as the appropriation act did not pass until August 23, it was not possible to appoint any of them before September 1, and many of them were not appointed until about October 1. Consequently, at the salary of $720 per annum, the appropriation of $120,000 is more than sufficient to compensate the 175 employees for the remainder of the fiscal year. As the Census Bureau has still a

great amount of simple clerical labor to perform in connection with the Thirteenth Decennial Census, it will probably be desirable to recommend to the next Congress an amendment to the appropriation act increasing the limit of the number of temporary clerks who may be employed by virtue of this appropriation to 225.

Aside from the changes made in the clerical grades of the Census Bureau, above referred to, and minor changes with respect to the subclerical grades, the organization of the Bureau for the fiscal year 1913 was further modified with respect to the higher officials. The position of Assistant Director of the Census, created only for the decennial census period, lapsed on June 30, 1912; and under the new appropriation act of August 23, 1912, the positions of disbursing clerk, appointment clerk, one chief statistician (at $3,000), and four chiefs of division (at $2,000) also lapsed. With the exception of the position of disbursing clerk, all of these places had existed only during the decennial census period.

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.

The Bureau operated under a lump-sum appropriation during the three-year decennial census period ending June 30, 1912. The appropriations made available during that period aggregated $15,000,000, in addition to which an appropriation of $150,000, for preliminary expenses of the Thirteenth Census, was made in March, 1909, to continue available until the close of the fiscal year 1910. The disbursements from these appropriations on account of Thirteenth Census work and the regular annual and permanent work of the Bureau are shown in the subjoined statement. As a considerable amount of the decennial census work, including the printing of the final reports, was carried over and provided for in the appropriations for the fiscal year 1913, the total cost of the Thirteenth Decennial Census can not be precisely ascertained until the close of the present fiscal year.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH DECENNIAL CENSUS TO JUNE 30, 1912.

APPROPRIATIONS, RECEIPTS, ETC.

Expenses of the Thirteenth Census, 1910-1912--- $15, 000, 000. 00
Preliminary expenses of the Thirteenth Census,
1909-10-

Recoveries on account of overpayments.
Receipts for transcripts of records_-_-

Reimbursement from Bureau of Immigration and
Naturalization ----

Reimbursement from Government Printing Office__
Reimbursement for photostat_.

Total

150, 000. 00

2,875.68 1,520. 96

13, 506. 80

6, 610. 20
500.00

15, 175, 013. 64

1 These figures include $29,716.50 salaries earned in June, 1912, but not on cash book on June 30, 1912.

The amount called for by the estimates of the Bureau of the Census for the fiscal year 1913 was $1,572,440 (exclusive of the item for printing other than the printing of Thirteenth Census reports, which item is now included with the appropriations for the Department of Commerce and Labor as a whole). The amount actually appropriated by the act of August 23, 1912, is $1,503,920, in addition to which, as already stated, Congress appropriated $45,000 to enable the Bureau to carry out the provisions of the new legislation concerning tobacco and cotton statistics. The appropriations include $696,340 for salaries of regular employees, $342,000 for collection of statistics, $120,000 for salaries of temporary clerks, and $272,000 for the printing of Thirteenth Census reports.

For the fiscal year 1914 estimates have been submitted to Congress calling for substantially the same amount for the Bureau of the Census as was appropriated for 1913, minus the special sums for temporary clerks and for Thirteenth Census printing. The total as estimated is $1,240,720. Substantially the same number of clerks of each salary class are called for as were provided for in the fiscal year 1913, save only that there has been some slight increase to enable the Bureau to carry out the provisions of the new legislation regarding tobacco and cotton statistics. The estimates do not call for special sums to enable the Bureau to carry out these acts individually, but the required expenditure has been assigned to the item of clerical salaries and the lump item, "collection of statistics."

TABULATING MACHINES.

The card tabulating machinery of the Census Bureau was fully described in my last annual report. Mention should be made, however, of a very great improvement to the tabulating machine used in summarizing the results of the population census, upon which the experts and mechanicians of the Bureau of the Census have been engaged for the past year. The machines as constructed for use in the Thirteenth Census printed the results of the tabulation of each unit of area, and therein were more satisfactory than the machines used in the Twelfth Census, in which the results were recorded on dials and had to be copied off on sheets. The results however, were printed