Evening journal., 1890-11-07
NOBLE REFUSES AGAIN.
No Recount Thus Far for New
York City.
MAYOR GRANTS DIsTRUsT FATAL.

The Secretary Says That No Evidence
Has Yet been onered Him 10 Prove
the Reliability OF the Police Census and
No Recount Seems Called For.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-Secretary Noble
last evening replied to Mayor Grants last
application for a recount Of the population
of New York city, and for the second time
refuses to allow the recount. He quotes
the mayors last application for recount
and says: There are some excuses pre-
sented by the mayor why the papers were
sent on in the shape they are that render il
not inappropriate to notice that the first
announcement OF the United States census
at 1.5la.5os on the rough count was made
a. early as July is last, and was then widely
published. while the police count did not
begin until Sept. 20 last. Thus seventy
days were allowed to elapse before any
steps were taken to correct the United
States census, If deemed incorrect and it Is
not thought that any haste that may now
be required is to be charged against
the census bureau as an unreasonable de.
mand"
A Slight Inconsistency.
He could have avoided IT, the secretary
says, by an earlier start The statement
made in the present application Of the
mayor 10 calling attention to tho enumer-
alton made by the police force OF New
York, to rest this case Of the city with the
proofs already in the possession OF the
census bureau, is inconsistent with his
action in appealing from the superintend-
ent to the secretary. Mayor Grant, he
says, selected to suit himself five out OF
947 enumeration districts in New York,
and proposed that the case should be dis
posed Of on an investigation Of the books
relating to these. But at the same time,
he says, these enumeration books do not
include all the populations that was re-
turned to him by the police enumerators
Grant Would Not Trust Him.
To have had possession of these ac-
knowledRedly imperfect records; to have
compared them with the schedules OF the
United States enumerators in his own de.
partment, under the law that authorizes
copies only TO be furnished municipalities
for inspection; to have given him entire
freedom Of action in the premises without
the supervision or presence of any agent
OF Nhe applicant, was the least that could
have been offered the secretary His posi-.
tion and his obligations were all the sure
ties necessary to entitle him to this conii-
dence
NO Evidence Of the Police's Reliability.
s'The refusal Of the books, y the secre-
tary says, leaves this case substantially
where il 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 re-
turns acknowledged to be imperfect, could
have been entertained only upon most
liberal treatment Of the applications these
books having been withheld, there is no
evidence whatever before the secretary of
the authenticity and reliability of the
police count, or OF any insutficency in the
United States census taken ia June.n
In conclusion, Secretary Noble 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 renumera-
tion, TO again disaliow the application
for a recount