I desire to be heard for a few moments. Iagree it is of importance to get speedy action on this bill. but the inquiry in regard to the ownership of the public debt and the naturalization of foreign persons is one of very great difficulty. in myjudgment utterly impossible to execute with any kind of accuracy. and. to be worth anything. it must be accurate. We tried for two censuses. 1850 and 1860. toget an estimate of the value of personal and real estate in the United States. but they were all guesses. wild guesses. utterly useless. and the last Superintendent of the Census said he regarded them as so entirely worthless he would not encumber his record with the attempt. We got every sort of guess from every sort of person. one putting property high. the other low. so there was nothing that had comparative value in that class of statistics.
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