St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
Postal Card Returns Are SuS-
picious, but the Schedules
Are All Right.
But to Please Minneapolis
Politicians st. Paul Must
Be Recounted.
Special Agents From Wash
ington Will Have Charge
Of the Work.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Secretary
Noble this afternoon, acting upon the
recommendation of Supt. Porter, di-
rected a recount of the population of
st. Paul and Minneapolis. The re-
count will be made as early as possible,
and it is believed will consume week.
James 81. Wardle, the assistant chief
clerk of the census bureau, will have
charge of the work at st. Paul, and F.
W Kruse, a special agent. at Minneapo-
lis. The superintendent Of the census
to-day wrote the following letter to the
secretary of the interior recommending
arecount of the population of ST. Paul
and Minneapolis. This was approved
by Secretary Noble:
POrterss Recommendations.
CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, July
26.-Sir: For the past two weeks this
Office has been engaged in an examina-
tion of the returns of the recent census
in Minneapolis and st. Paul, MINI. Be-
fore the count in the first-named city
was completed. the attention of the CEN
sus Office was called to alleged frauds in
which it was claimed that systematic
effort was being made to pad the census
of Minneapolis. Mr.. Boudinot, trusted
employe of this Office, was at once sent
to investigate the matter, and was also
instructed to Investigate certain charges
made in the newspapers of Minneapolis
seriously rejecting upon the enumera-
ton then in course of completion in st.
Paul. You are undoubtedly familiar
with what has followed. The contest
between these two rival cities in rela-
tion to population has assumed a magni-
tude and bitterness that will unques-
tionably leave
A faint on the Count
of both cities. even if the census were
not in possession of absolute proof that
serious fraud has been perpetrated by
the enumeratorS IN both Minneapolis
and st. Paul to a greater or less degree.
Two weeks ago, for the purpose of as
certaining what basis exists for the
charges and countercharges after the
completion of the work of enumeration,
an investigation was instituted, which
has been conducted with great care and
ability by Mr.. Henry Gannett, geograph-
er of the census. This investigation
consisted mainly in an examination of
the schenules returned by the supervis
ors and a comparison of their contents
with the insurance aliases of these
cities. The results of Mr.. Boudinot's
investigation, including the reports
made by him from Minneapolis from
time to time, were placed in Mr.. Gannett's
hands, also numerous affidavits affecting
the work in st. Paul. The conclusion
reached from the evidence already in
the possession of the census Office, with
out taking into consideration the fact
that criminal prosecutions are now
pending in the case of Minneapolis, was
that nothing short of recount of the
entire population of both of these cities.
conducted directly by special agents of
this Office, will satisfy the people of the
state of Minnesota, for it
Involves the Whole State.
The evidence before me may be sum-
married as follows: In all probability
there existed in Minneapolis wide
spread organized conspiracy for initiating
the census of that city. This conspir-
acy was only partially carried through,
owing to its early discovery. To what
extent, however, the schedules are
fraudulent can be at present only a
matter of conjecture. These fraudulent
schedules take all manner of forms.
Families have been swollen to enormous
size by the addition of children and
boarders, the capacities of existing
houses have been taxed far beyond
their limits by the addition of families,