Senate that the form of treaty which was finally ratified differed but

little from the arbitration treaties of 1908.

CHAPTER XVI

THE THIRTEENTH CENSUS, 1910

[1910-1911]

After many years of urging on the part of statisticians and public men,

Congress, in 1902, passed a bill which was signed by the President

providing for a permanent census bureau connected with the Department of

Commerce and Labor. This bureau, as shown in the taking of the