Arizona republican., 1890-11-05
NEW YORKS CENSUS Secretary Noble Replies
 to Governor Hill. Square Answer Returned to
 an Abusive Letter. The Basest Partisan Motives Att tributed to Hill in His Course.
 The Governor Reiterates.

WASHINGTON, November 5.--SecTetary of the Interior Noble today replied to the letter of Governor Hill of October Sl, regarding the New York City census.
 The following are some extracts from the letter.
 'lt was wholly unnecessary for you to remind me of the provisions of the constitution of the United States re- lating to the enumeration and ap- portionment of representatives or of the electoral college; or that provision of the census law allowing amend ments and recountB; neither did need any exhortation upon the subject of fair apportionments.
 "It is much tl be regretted that in your letter to me, when acting upon a purely official matter, you, as Governor, should speak as partisan and impute corrupt purposes to the census enumer- ators to secure their party advantage by diminishing the count of the city of New York. Your imputation against the enumerators and their census work is so entirely gratuitious and unfounded as to be slanderoUs and you should know that your abusive course could not tend to promote that fair and judicial consideration l have been dis posed to give to the application of the mayor. Your charge iInputing fraudul- ent motives to others rather suggests that, as your party thinks an increased population would inure 70 its advant- age, the count of the police, taken, as it has been, since the New York police board has been made partisan, needs the very closest scrutiny and analysis. Your accusations, heretofore confined to interviews and stump speeches, began even before the enumeration was an- nOunced."
 The secretary refers to ;he Governors speech at Indianapolis eIn the subject last June and adds: "You did not sue ceed in these efforts to any considerable degree, but you are largely responsible for any inaccuracies that may exist. You set an example by dsnonDting the law of Congress and suggested its viola ton by your less acute political follow CTS. Your early and continuous parti- san assaults upon the ceEsus have had necessarily a motive, which is easily discerned.
 You further asserted in the speech mentioned that tho Republican party will not repudiate theiI declared policy of breaking the power of tue Solid South by deliberately gaining a vast increase of the population in that section. The truth is, that no complaint whatever has been received from any Southern State, as State, against the census, and the only serious claiIa of erroneous dminution of population and represen- tation by any State has come from the Republican State oi Oregon"
 In conclusion the secretary says; "I regret the necessity of addressing the chief magistrate of the leading State of the Union in the terms have employed, but find my justification in the reck- less incompetence of the language you have seen fit to use--langIage which is lacking as much in truth s,s it is in the dignity befitting your great office, which, in the past, has leen hlled by eminent men of both the political par ties of New York. Upon the merit of the mayors application shall reply to him D