St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-30
A HALT is ORDERED.
Secretary Noble Orders Sus-
pension of the Recount
Order for st. Paul.
He Will Await the Arrival Of
a Delegation at the Ma
tional Capital.
The Evidence offered Must Be
Produced by Superinten-
dent Porter.

Citizens and Officials Will
Seek Amicable Solution
of the Difficulty. =
A feeling of relief took possession OF
the st. Paul census committee yester-
day, and the high tension to which they
had been wrought by the order OF Sec
rotary Noble directing recount of st.
Paul relaxed when the contents of the
following kilograms were known to
them. The first was received from Sec
rotary Noble during the forenoon, aud
is as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July 29.-To Gen. John
B. Sanborn st. Paul: Will expect your COM
mittee Thursday Until conference action
will be suspended. Evidence will be dis
cuSSed with them. JOHN W. NOBLE,
Secretary.
The other was received early in the
afternoon by Judge Flandrau from
Senator Davis, and is:
WASHINGTON D. c., July 29-To Hon.
Charles E. Flandrau, st. Paul: Secretary
Noble says action will be suspended, as re,
quested i'll your telegram, and that he will
The evidence will be submitted to them.
C. K. DAVIS.
Gen. Sanborn sent the following dis
patch in response to the one received
from Secretary Noble, as Explanatory of
the feeling in St. Paul, and the reason
the committee was sent to interview
him:
ST. PAUL, July 2o-To Hon. John W.
N Grrr, t11ift loft
last night Rebellious feeling here arises
from the fact that full knowledge Of fraud
at Minneapolis was given bureau by our peo-
pie and bureau failed to suppress or prose-
cute and thereby forced st. Paul to COM
plain and make arrests 10 suppress crime,
and then, because she has complained or
violations OF law, she is subjected to dis
grace and possible punishment. If commit
tee on conference see a different case, all OBJ
lection TO a recount will be Withdrawn.
JOHN B. SANBoRN.
1t is expected that Capt. Henry A.
Castle, ex-senator Mcmillan, Fred Dris-
coll ST.. Theodore F. Smith and Thomas
Cochran Jr., who compose the commit
tee. will arrive in Washington this
evening.
Aid. o. o. Cullen, president of the
city council, last evening remarked:
81 am glad to know that the commit
| tee will be granted prompt audience
| by Secretary Noble. They will have
an opportunity to fully assure him that
| st. Paal people are not Directing to a
recount of the city because they are
| opposed to a remuneration, but that
they object to being classed with Min
| neapolis in the order for recount with
| out an investigation being made as to
| frauds. 1t took six weeks to determine
| upon recount for Minneapolis after
the census department had refused to
| investigate charges of fraud there,
and after documentary evidence
had been laid before the depart
ment showing extensive and con-
| certed action to pad the enumeration,
st. Paul people have arightto be shown
fair treatment when they have freely
| offered to assist in finding out and
prosecuting any existing fraud. They
have the right to know what evidence
has been used as the basis OF the order
including st. Paul in the recount. 1t is
possible that Senator Washburn and
other representatives OF Minneapolis
have procured and filed affidayitS
charging fraud in st. Paul. 1t such is
the case, the people here have a right
When the committee sees the evidence,
and if is is found that presumptive
fraud is charged, they will de-
| mand a candid Investigation and will
pledge the aid of the chamber of COM
| merce and all citizens in making a full
| investigation and prosecution of any
and all yiolators of the law, from the
| highest official down to the enumera-
tors"
| 1t is understood that affidavits have
been filed by Minneapolis people with
Superintendent Porter, charging that
there are people enumerated i'll st. Paul
whose residences are given at places
not found on map OF the city. 1t is,
however, claimed that the map used in
the comparison is not true one, but is
of the kind used by insurance agents,
and only has such buildings marked on
it as are usually classed as lnsurable,
and does not have marked thereon the
poorer class of tenements. The small
houses of ''Swrde hollow" the West
Side levee, portion of the Connemara
district and several other parts of the
CITY are not indicated on the map.
If the recount is to be made, the city
will probably be divided into 300 dis
tricts, with as many enumerators
chosen out of list of LOCO names sug
gested by the chamber of commerce
Then, if the men are paid reasonable
compensation by the day, and not sc
much per name, there will be no in
ducement to the enumeratOrs to Sigh
the work or to take names recklessly.
As has been suggested by several
there will be difficulties in the way of {
correct count at this season of the year
owing to the fact that whole familie:
are temporarily out of the city spending
a few weeks at the lakes or elsewhere
In many cases their homes are shut up
in others there is only servant left il
charge of the house, who is Ignorant o.
the information that may be desired
AS one gentleman said: sour family O
| nine persons is at the lake. There is only
one servant left at the house. [ doub
whether she could tell where she wa
born herself, let alone give information
as to the family. Ii asked question
i by an enumerator she would probably
: | saw Il don't know The house mex
, door is also vacant, the family being a
the lake."
Several members of the COMMITTEES
expressed the opinion yesterday that
: recount will be made as directed b,
Secretary Noble, but that they will b.
J informed as to the charges preferred
and. therefore, will be able to find GU
whether or not they are grOundleSs
! st. Paul people will know FROM the re
port what is expected of them and vii
not be put III the position OF going int
the recount on the same plane as Min
| neapoliS.
WILLING TO BE RECOUNTED
| | ri mi,