St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-07
Mayor Grants Last Plea for a
Recount Of New York
Denied.
No Positive Proofs Submitted
Of Inaceuraey in the
Original Count.
A Case Bare Of Facts Author.
izing Remuneration Cuts
Little Figure.
Gen. Schofield Wants Uncle
Sam to at Once Foptify !
the Seaboard.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. - Secretarv
Noble this evening replied to MaYoK
Grants last application for recount Of
the population of New York city, and
for the second time refuses to allow the
recount. He quotes the mayors last ap-
plication for a recount, and says:
There are some excuses presented by the
mayor why the papers are sent on in tba
shape that they are that render il not iuap.
propriate to notice that the first anuOnncel
ment OF the United states census at 1873
5ol, on the rough count, was made as early
as July IS last, and was then widely pub.
lshed. while the police count did not begin
until Sept. % last Thus seventy days were
allowed to elapse before steps were taken to
correct the United States census, if deemed
incorrect. and il is not thought that any
haste that may now be required is 20 be-
charged against the census bureau
lie could have avoided it, the secFe-
tary says, by an earlier start. The state4
ment made in the present application,
the secretary says. that it was not the
intention of the mayor in calling atten-
tlon TO the enumeration made by the
police force of New York, to rest the
case of the city with the proofs already
in the possession of the census bureau.
is inconsistent with his action in appeal3
ing from the superintendent to the
secretary. The superintendent in his
reply to the mayors application, had
stated that the demand was without tho
support of and facts officially known
to the census Office, any that casa
presented liz due form would be decied
on Its merits. If. the secretary asks, il
was not the intention OF the applicant
to rest his case no proofs already in
the possession of the censns bureau, why
did he refuse to present additional proofs
and to make case he could? Why
did he turn away from the census Office
and make demand upon the secretary
without, even then, making a single
additional assertion of fact, but still in
slsting that representative of the cen
sus office had supervised the police
count and had made daily returns TO
that office and thereon only demand an
order by the secretary on the spperin.
tendent to proecedP Why did he re-
main in this attitude until the opinion
by the secretary was delivered if he did
not rest his case upon that which he
maintained was in the census bureau
and which lie insisted was sufficient?
Certainly these acts indicated most
strongly both an intention and a fixed
determination to force upon the report
the count of the police by the assertion
that it Was taken under United States
supervision and that the result was
therefore absolutely binding. Mayor
Grant, he says. selected TO suit himself 8
out OF 947 enumeration districts in New
York. and proposed that the ease
should be disposed of on an investiga-
tiOn of the books relating to these. But
at the same time he says these enumer-
alton books do not include all the pOpu-
lation that was returned to him by the
police enumpratOrS. To have bad pos
session OF these acknowledged imper-
feet records, to have compared them
with the schedules Of the United States
eAumerat0rs i'll his own department.
under the law that authorizes eopies
only to be furnished municipalities for
inspection: to have given him entire
freedOm OF action in the premises with
out the supervision or presence of any
agent of the applicant was the least that
could have been offered the secretary.
His position and his obligations were
all the SUI cites necessary to eDtitle him
to this confidence.
The refusa! of the books the secretary
says. 'ieaves this case substantially where it
was when the last opinion was delivered.
The offer of the returns of merely five wards
out OF 9i7 districts that are in the city OF
New York, and these returns acknowledged
TO be imperfect, could have been entertained
only upon most liberal treatment of the ap-
plication: these books having been withheld,
there IS ITO evidence whatever before the sec
retary Of the authenticity and probability OF
the police count, or of any insufficiency in
the United states census taken in june
In conclusion the secretary says he is
driven by the mayors course of conduct
in refusing his request for access to the
books. and thus keeping the case utterly
bare OF any facts authorizing a re-enum-
GRAFTON, Ito again dlSaYoW the applica.
tom fOr 4 recount.