The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-02
oUTRAeEs ON CITIZENS.
How the Supervisor Of Elections Manages
Things In brooklyn.

The Election Franchise act OF the United
States laws that creates supervisors Of elections,
such az Little Johnny Davenport In this city.
and John j. Allen. Jr., of Brooklyn, provides for
their compensation bv fees, In addition to the
coin pensation thcy may receive "a United states
Circuit Court Commissioners. The law allows
the chief supervisor ten cents for caring for
every report, record, document OF other paper
In bis Office twenty cents for aflixing seal, and
fifteen cents folio for entering and indexing
records or for any copy OF any record or paper
on file. In the brief act containing these pro-
visions little Johnny Davenport has found gold
mine, the secret to which he taught to the
sup irvisor OF BROOKLYN, John j. Allen. The ac-
tiyity Of the election Supervisors IL largely ex-
blamed In the fact that there Is money In
IT. ihe superslsots who are appoint,
- only VI they were to work cleo
ton day alone. The law. however, provides for
paying them for ten days work In case they do
II hence their employment inlsearchipe out IL
leg u registration ases or making themselves
offensive to householders, that they NAV swear
out a warrant for their arrest for refusing to
ave Information. linen theY make written
report To the supervisor. who hles II. and gets
ten cents for II. enters II In n record book for NJ
teen cents folio, makes copy OF II at the same
price, ard makes another copy to guard against
cents again for every hundred words copied.
his ingenious proceeding swells the super
visOr's bill TO fabulous sum. Johnny DAven.
be squeezed out NJ the law. He had all OF the
voters names entered In book. which, under
BIZ hand, grew into compendium Of pOlit-
cal Information, said To be OF inestimaple value
ia a. campaign like the present. All OF this was
paid for al fifteen cents a folio by the Govern
ment Mr. Allen Of Brooklyn took lessons OF
Davenport and put the same cuteness TO work
~ Brooklyn, and the work done by. .superyi.or
Jones for $3.50 WAS put In Aliens bill for $1,000.
Mr.. Jones did all the work, with the aid Of one
the same svstein Of hddition nivision' and
Nta n
work copying. recOpylng, and copying agdln at
ten cents folio. lie recently issued long
winded instructions to each OF the 81 super
yisors, for winch lie will receive pay by the
foho, and twenty cents apiece for the
Mr.. Aliens instructions are numerous,
and his charges for them promise to
formation IS eravey given that about eight
thousand persons have fraudulently registered
IN Btooklyn. end that there have been nearly
eignt hundred speciuc cases reported already.
he arrests 80 Tar do not exceed eight. When
the supervisor who Is searching for scalps fails
to find any man who can be accused OF illegal
registration. and oe dsenfranchised by having
his case put over until aftrr election he usually
pOunces upon some one whom he n have ar
rested for not giving Information. David Me-
Sntne Of 90 Pacific street was arrested yester-
DAY, because when the supervisor questioned
MN he was unable to tell the date OF his natu-
raization papers. lie was sent 10 ] III In default
OF tlOO bonds, but WIS subsequently release I'd
animation. joseph Pinner, VINO by mistake gave
his resideucc to the registration clerk as lS Full
ton street. while IL was l15. also allowed
TO 80 ON his own recognzAnce.
David W. Lewis, Broad street commission
merchant. was taken from his residence Ia Eli
hott place, late on tuesday night, ana lock
up in the Myrtle avenue police station, on
charge Of having registered from l13 oxford
street, the residence of Nathaniel Co. nreu, Esq
while has residence was IN New Jersey. lie
WAS taken Leiore Justice Riley yester-
~ morning, and released on Sl0u bail
To appear for examination on Nov. o. MIR.
Lewis said to SUN reporter that. pending his
flmilY's return from the country, he liveu with
Sir. COthern. his brother in-law. expecting, after
the election, to move into a house that he mas
leased in Elliott place. He was entitled to a
vote. and having no Residence from which to
register had registered from his boarding place.
Mathew O'Neill was locked w on charge Of
falsely registering from lUl Walcott street. Peter
Spence, an ex-policeman. was locked up for
having falsely registered from 81 WSthe avenue.