St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-23

nell was chairman of the committee
having charge Of the supervision of the
recount. The report covered Special
Agent Wardle's work in this city. 1t
showed how every assistance had been
rendered the special agent and the work
done in getting list of absentees.
sentees were turned in to Mr.. Wardle.
Two or three thousand names were re-
turned, and Mr.. Bushnell adds:
We, however, found in our work that il re-
Quires ten times as much proof to establish
the fact that person was resident OF this
city as 10 establish the fact that he was not.
and this made the work OF the committee
very ardnous, tedious. and, l might say, at
times, exasperating.
The committee loaned Mr.. Wardle
the volume which had been prepared
containing the list of absentee resi-
dents:
1t was loaned to Mt. Wardle purely as an
accommodation to him, presumably TO assist
him in the better discharge of his dnties.
This volume he has refused TO return TO this
committee when requested SO 10 do, and we
are informed ii was shipped with the records
of his office 10 the census bureau at Wash
ington, thus depriving US of a fair opportu-
nifty to ascertain whether the work was well
and faithfully done or not. We consider
this an insult 10 the people of ST. Paul and
who have worked so faithfully and hard in
assisting TO accom- plish full and complete
remuneration of our citizens. anG have
afforded every facility and assistance 10 MI.
WardIe that could be thought Of.
Mr.. Wardle refused to let the COM
mittee ascertain the number enumerated
of the names that had been sent in. and
the recount giving ST. Paul pOpula-
ton of 133, 301 the committee firmly be-
lieve to be many thousand less than we
are justly entitled TO. The special
agent is thus described:
Mir. Wardle received the reports from the
enumerators as they came III. ana his man.
ner toward them was one of cast-iron rigid
1ty. The StTictest technicalities of the law
were eXpounded TO them, oftentimes in a
nervous and impatient manner, to the mex
perienced enumerators whose minds we're
already more or less mixed as to their exact
duties, owing 10 the fact that they had had
but little time for preparation and no ex-
perience of the same kind before. to say
nothing about the pernicious influence
brought to bear. in various ways hos
In fact, there was type of terrorism
in the feeling existing among them (the
enumerators) that seemed to make them
rather desire to finish their work and get
through with IL, than to Continue where
they were, oftentimes SO harshly treated.
| 1t seems to US that this policy made it abso-
lutely impossible for the best results TO be
obtained. and full and exact enumeration
of our city accomplished. We firmly believe
that. had each enumerator been kindly but
firmly requested to spend an additional day
in his distric: to ascertain if possible if he
had omitted the name of any person justly
| entitled TO enumeration, the result would
have been that every one would have
| been enabled to return q number of names
additional and it will be seen at a glance
that ii would not have required large num-
| Der OF names from each of the 34l enumera-
a >GldprDhlQ
! Every effort was made by this committee to
change this peculiar condition of affairs. but
without success. The enumerators returned
their portfolios, certified to their work, were
| discharged by Mr. Wardle, and we were thus
! deprived Of the opportunity of recording the
! true population of our city at this time.