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And now let me turn to the apportionment on the bagis the
census of 1790, which has been the focus of attack, ds you a. ogall.
The census publication Century of Population Growth has beert’ pm,
der fire by the Irish societies, in fact it was under fire from the
moment it came out, because they claimed the Revolution: was, peally
fought by Irishmen, and that all our institutions: were developed hy
the Irish. I am not saying anything against the'Irish; I like them
personally and employ almost exclusively Irish; that J peithorabops
nor there—but they are not entitled to any more copsidetatiott gan
the Germans or Scandinavians. or
I omitted to state that the Century of Population Growth as a
study is really out of the discussion. All the analyses of the colonial
population have been restudied and re-presented in an entirely new
proposition. So that any attack on the Century of Population
Growth is really out of this question. But I believe Senator Ship-
stead quoted in his argument a letter of Mr. Rossiter about the lost
schedules, which have been a matter of controversy. I do not want
to quote the Senator inaccurately, but I read the record only a few
days since, and if my recollection is correct, it was his impression
from an article published in the Outlook of, I think, 1906, before
the Century of Population Growth was prepared, that 25 per cent
of those schedules were missing. As a matter of actual fact, when
Mr. Rossiter who was the author of Century of Population Growth,
developed his tables on the colonial population, I can only figure
out over an approximation of 11 per cent, at the very outside, for the
missing schedules, or the alleged missing schedules; and the areas
considered to which these missing schedules referred are so dis-
tributed that it is possible to get substantially accurate information
regarding the population that was in .those areas.
The CrrairMax. When you speak of the Century of Population
Growth is that the work that is referred to in the reports made to this
committee?
My. Trevor. That is the book that is always attacked, Mr. Chair-
man, and it really is entirely out of the picture. :
Senator Reep. It is a publication of the Census Bureau made in
£910.
The Crammmax. I only query on it, because, if you will recall, in
the report Doctor Hill made and that the experts made there 1s a
particular volume referred to, and referred to quite often, as one of
the authoritative references. Is that the work you refer to?
Mr. Trevor. If you will pardon me, Doctor Hill in his prelim-
inary report utilized the apportionment of the colonial population
as it was set forth in the Century of Population Growth, but that
was only in the preliminary figures, which he stated at that time
were subject to correction.
The CramrMaN. That is the February, 1928, report you refer to?
Mr. Trevor. No, sir; that was the January, 1927, report.
The CuairMAN. In the February, 1928, report he refers to a
volume, and I was simply asking for information, whether that is
the same book to which you are referring now. ;
Mr. Trevor. My recollection of that testimony possibly is a little
different from yours.
The Cuamman. Possibly so.
