The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-10
INVESTIGATE THIS FRAUD.

planned.
WASHINGTON, New 29.-Congress
will reassemble on Monday next. One
of the first duties of the Democratic
members Of the House will be to de,
mand a thorough investigation OF the
frauds which have been perpetrated in
the census of New Y ork.
There must be 10 action concerning
the apportionment OF the Congress
sional districts until those frauds have
been sifted to the bottom.
The facts already known are sulli-
cient to compel the Republicans to
grant the investigation. There will be
plenty more of evidence when the
authorities Of New York City present
their statement of what was done by
Porter in the single district Of that
city, of which he was willing to give
his own detailed enumeration to Mayor
Grant, is made public, which Will be
in few days.
Here is one astounding discovery!
Porter has paid his enumerators in
New York city for 100000 more names
than he has counted in the Census Of
ice here in Washington. lie must be
compelled to explain at once:
/. Whether the enumerators actually
sent in that number of names in eX-
cess of what he has declared to be the
real population of the city,:
2. If so, what has been done with the
sheets which they forwarded, and
which were not counted?
3. If all the names on theSheets have
really been counted, What authority he
had to pay $4,000 more for the work
than the law authorized him to pay?
4. If the names were all counted how
did it happen that Supervisor Murray
reported to him, when the enumeration
was finished in New York, that the
sheets contained over 100000 more
names than We're actually on them?
We have no doub: from our present
information that the sheets showing
the 113,O0O names more than Porter
has counted were actually turned in by
the enumerators, and that he could not
avoid paying for them. In that case
the sheets have been destroyed or
thrown out in some way.
Mayor Grant will submit evidence
next week that in single district of
the city where only poor people reside,
and the population is as large in June
| as in December, hundreds of families
have been omitted from the final count.
In the whole city probably 10000
families have been omitted, and yet
the government has paid for their
enumeration.
An investigation by Congress will
bring out all the facts and when the
fraud in the New York work has been
exposed there will be plenty of evil
dence of the arbitrary reduction of the
population of other localities.
The truth seems to be that Porter
has been a party to conspiracy to re-
port the population Of the United
S ates nearly three millions less than
the actual figures in order to cut down
the Congressional representation and
electoral vote of Democratic States.
Ii this can be proved he ought to be
sent to the penltentiary.
If it can be proved new census OF
several States must be taken.
Until this matter is thoroughly slft-
ed there can be no reapportionment
The unfortunate fact is that there
is nothing in Porter's record or charac-
ter to ren!er it improbable that he
would engage in rascally partisan
scheme>for the benefit of the Republi-
can party, out of which he is making a
great deal of money.
lie is an English adyencurer, a soldier
of fortune, who would be as willing to
work for one party in this country as
another-for pay.
Ills appointment as superintendent
of census was an outrage and we be-
lieye that when the census scandal is
thoroughly exposed he will want to go
back to England to live.
When another census is taken we
hope it will be an American census
supervised by Americans.
We have had enough fire English
work in our census this year to last us
several hGrdred years.-National Dem
Ocrat