St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27

lures OF Louis Hogman on the cardS was
genuine. Postal cards were not writ
ten instruments" within the meaning
of the statutes.
Mr.. Hay, in his reply. restated his
reasons for offering the cards In evil
dence. He wished, first, to show that
Hegman had enumerated people IN his
PENDANT had refused to return his Sched-
ules. He thought that it would be COM
petent to compare the postal card sigma
lures with that upon the bond executed
by Hegman, in order to prove it they
were genuine. In conclusion, he stated
that he thought it was sufficient to
prove that the returns on the postal
cards showed more names in only por-
ton OF his district than the recount had
proved the whole district to contain.
Mr.. Hale then took an inning. He
stated that the defense wanted to show
by these same postal cards that Hegman
had enumerated lawfully. ut seems
to me-" he said, ''they can't do this and
that. They seem to want to introduce
here their cards to show that Hegman
sent in reports on his postal cards
which were fictitious. We hold, sir,
that this would introduce a large
amount of testimony which would be
wholly incompetent. This would open
the door to try false issue, something
which could not be rightly tried here"
The argument was long and tedious
and after its close, Ed Davenport was
put upon the stand to testify as tothe
genuineness of the signatures. Judge
Shaw finally admitted that they were
willing to grant that Hegman received
his commission as census enumerat0r
for district No. 345, but objected to the
postal card. Schedule No. used by the
enumeratOrs was next offered in evil
dence, but Judge Shaw objected to it it
intended to show that it was the kind OF
schedule offered to Hegman. The OBJ
jections were overruled in both cases.
One by one the different sets of station
cry in use was submitted, objected to
by Judge Shaw, and finally admitted:
Davenport was again placed on tn e
stand and questioned as to whether the
schedules of enumeration were returned
to his Office by Hegman up to July "a.
The usual objection followed and also
the everything. Davenport answered
that they were not. The cross-eXamina-
ton which followed brought out the fact
that Hegman had told Davenport that
his schedules were lost and that he had
understood him to mean his filled out
list and not blanks, as these could have
been easily replaced. He also admitted
that papers might be returned and de-
posted in the office without his know
ing anything about it.
In the afternoon the oath of the EMU
meratOr was offered in evidence. Judge
Shaw said that the certificate of indOrSe-
ment would not be sufficient under the
laws of the state, and thought that it
was not so under the United States stat
utes, but his objection shared the same
fate as the others. MI. Davenport was
recalled. and he was again placed on
the rack by Judge Shaw. The cross
examination was to find why Daven-
port had not sent for Hegman. lie
stated that it was because there was to
be recount, and he wanted to get a
correct count of the people.
Mr. Monroe, clerk in the census Of
flee, was next called. His work was
preparing the portfolios, among others
that of Hegman. He stated that Heg
mans portfolio had not been returned.
neither had it been sent to Washington.
After he had placed the portfolio on a
table at stated time he had never seen
it. p. W. McAllister, who had charge
of the blanks and Office up to June 80,
was next called and explained his duties
and the manner of making up
schedules. He stated that he had per-
sonally delivered Hegman's portfolio to
him, and up to the time he left it had
never been returned. Then number
of witnesses were sworn to prove that
Hegman had left blanks of the citizens
committee at their houses and had
called for them later. Judge Shaw OBJ
jected, the objection was overruled,
and. after consultation between the
legal lights, the prosecution rested its
case. After consultation between at
torneys for the defense Judge Shaw
moved that the case be dismissed, as no
offense had been proven. There was a
long winded argument on the motion,
and it was finally deferred until Tues
daV.