St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-18
PROOFS OF PADDING.
Supt. Porter Shows UP the
Minneapolis Corsairs OF
the Census.
Each District Reeounted
Shows an Imitation or
Nearly 1000.
The Magnitude of the Crimi-
nal Job Shown in Plain
Figures.
Perhaps the Injured lnno-
cents Will Attempt to
Doubt 1t.

Special TO tn6 GlODe.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-There were
four different rumors every hour, to-
day. through the Minnesota colony,
touching the census returns of both st.
Paul and Minneapolis. The Flour City
contingent was busily telling everybody
interested that "a dry goods box OF
proofs" of padding at st. Paul had been
received here and would be at the CEN
suS Office tomorrow. This last was the
saving clause. The census officials know
nothing of it, and if at Washington it
has not been delivered. Of course the
st. Paul contingent descredits the
story and say it was started to offset the
startling discoveries in the Minneapolis
returns to-day made public. A promi-
nent Minneapolis man who has held
Office here for years said to the GLOBE
correspondent to-dayi
1--WE have abundant proof of the st.
Paul padding"
"What character of proof?'
"Why, affidavits, of course"
''Oh, affidavits. Who made them"'
"ReputabIe Minneapolis men," he ad-
of Minneapolis, too"
The closest inquiry of this Minneap-
oils official elected that all he knew. or
thought he knew, was that some names
had been enrolled at st. Joseph's acad-
emy and the reform school that did not
belong to st. Pauls population, and the
whole story is laughed at here. But
Al, alof nf hn Mi1rnnonn1iC
census the story is different, and
the cold figures speak for themselves.
The Minneapolis corsairs of the census
started out to do very big job. They
intended to fill the vacant lots, tenant
less houses and empty brick blocks with
enough imaginary people to run close
race with Baltimore and Boston and to
distance Pittsburg and all the great lake
cities. The revelations that are made
by the census Office investigation are
startling. Special Agent BOndinot has
made report to the census office of the
result of the recount in eleven of the
twelve districts in which a second
enumeration was ordered. These
districts were numbers 309, 315, 319
337, 343, 346, 1868, 395, 401, Ali and 426. 1t
is made perfectly plain that the origi-
nal purpose of the population pirates to
swell these eleven districts from 9,379,
their actual population, to 1899, an in
crease of Just $500, which would have
been a trifle more than doubling up.
Boss Stevens differed from the thieves
who used to proceed upon the great
principle-addition, division and ST.
Ience, in that there was no division in
his. 1t was all addition, and silence
has not played the large part in the
work that he had hoped. The census
conspirators started out very bravely-
upon their scheme to multiply Mime
apolis. Following are the figures in
the recounted districts as furnished by
Supt. Porter:
Daily postal cards reports 1910; actual re-
turns, 1906.
Recount, 791.
District 315-
Daily report, 1000; actual returns, $50.
Recount, $40.
District 39l-
Daily reports, 1892; actual returns, s79.
Recount. $50.
District 33T-
Daily reports, 1913.
Recount, 546.
District 343-
Daily report 1850; actual returns, eo4.
Recount. 461.
District 346-
Daily report, ., 152.
Recount, 953.
District 364-
Daily report, 1882; actual returns, 2.204.
Recount l $40.
District 395-
Daily report, /, All; actual returns, 1896.
Recount $50.
District 401-
Daily report, 2,26s; actual returns, 474.
Recount, $40.
District 40
Daily report, 1.477; actual returns, 1852.
Recount 1.179.
District 426-
Daily report 1,274; actual returns 427.
Recount, $40.
AS soon as the trouble began the Min
neapoliS managers began promptly to
hedge and to send in returns from
which the padding anticipated by the
postal card estimates was carefully
eliminated. as in Districts 315, 319 and
401, in which they actually returned
less than Boudinot's enumeratorS have
found to live in the districts. They re-
formed altogether too sudden aud too
hard. The returns from District 337
have not reached here, as they are
held as evidence in one of
the pending cases. 1t is claimed that
the returns from District No. 46 were
lost, but comparison between the postal
card returns and estimates of 1866 for
the missing district and the recount of
1,499, shows the size of the job con-
templated. Supt. Porter has not yet
decided about recount for all of Min
neapolis, but he is fully convinced of
the criminality of the Minneapolis count
in the precincts that have been re-
counted.
The following table presents the
figures of the daily postal card returns
by enumerators, the returns made by
Supervisor Davenport, and the recount
made in the several districts by emu.