St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-05
tainted CENSUS
For the Honor of the City OF
st. Paul There Must Be a
Recount.
Supervisor SIXTH Is Under a
Dark Cloud in the Gen.
sus Office.
Roudinot Denies Having Made
Suggestions Credited
to Him.
It Is Expected That the Final
Hearing Will Occur This
Morning.
For Partisan Reasons Porter
Wants to Complete His
Census Work.
Three Of the Most Important
Schedules From st. Paul
Are Missing.
The Missing Schedules Repre-
sent Not Less Than Four
Thousand Names.
Supt. Porter Will Acquit the
City of Completely in
Padding
Three Of the Most Important
Schedules From st. Paul
Are Missing.
The Missing Schedules Repre-
sent Not Less Than Four
Thousand Names.
Supt. Porter Will Acquit the
City of Completely in
Padding
Special to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Aug. 4.-The
greater portion of the morning was
wasted by the st. Paul delegation
through no fault of their own. Supt.
Porter required his full clerical force to
examine schedules all day Sunday, and
this morning there was considerable de-
lay in bringing the official documents
flom the headquarters Office on Third
street to room in the Ninth street
building assigned to st. Paul people.
Supervisor Smith spent the hours i'll
quiescent profanity. While it is be-
lieved that Supt. Porter was dl-
rectly responsible for this delay
the condition of affairs does not reflect
credit upon the discipline and personnel
of his subordinate force. Present indi-
cations are that the delegation has sue
ceeded in its work as well as might have
been believed last Saturday. The edi-
torial of the Pioneer Press Of Thursday
last still sticks in the crops of the CEN
sus office officials, and nothing that Mr..
Driscoll can say or do will obliterate it.
The give-aWay matter is quoted again
and again, both openly and i'll sarcastic
undertones. The general impress
sion is that when the editorial
was written it was printed with
the full understanding on the part CT
the writer that the census of the Pho
neer Press building was particularly
rotten. Supervisor Smith has been try
ing to explain the enumeration of that
building, and has been obliged to con-
cede that one-third Of it
Is False and Fraudulent.
Census office officials say that seventy
ated in the Pioneer building are dupli-
Gated at their places of residence.
Apart from the clerical error of the
enumerator who designated some Of the
GLOBE employees as servants" the
enumeration of that building seems to be
substantially correct, save in few in
stances where the census official over
reached himself in his desire to
make few extra pennies on names.
Supervisor Smith is under cloud to-
day in the census office. They say that
by his own conversation he has again
and again indicated that he instructed
his Subordinates to ''get all the names
they could" While he does not admit
this directly the officials have carefully
noted down his different sayings, and
they have all been patched together to
show his trend of mind. The fact that
hequotes Special Agent Boudinot as hav-
ing suggested this to him works against
him. for Boudinot has positively denied
having given utterance to any such
sentiment. 1t is expected that the dele
cation will be given final hearing to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock. but it is
not absolutely certain that will be the
case. Secretary Noble is exceedingly
busy with political affairs as we'll as
with the rush of business in his depart
ment, and he is averse to giving any
more time 10 the delegation. Neverthe-
less Supt. Porter is anxious to have the
matter brought to head and is urging
that the hearing be given tomorrow.
Supt. Porter is anxious to COM
plete his census work that the Re-
publicans may have an opportunity
to pass an apportionment bill for the
benefit of the Republican party at the
ensuing elections. Reprehensible as
this is, it will enure to the benefit of St.
Paul in bringing about a settlement of
the pending controversy. Census Office
officials intimate that the work of
Enumerator Davis will not be used
wholly to his detriment. 1t is true that
his work seems to be the most question
able, but there is disposition to be-
hot hn l,a o. Ali
and merely did what he was bidden to
do. Supervisor Smith must bear his
Burden of the Odium
which attaches to the errors found, and
they say that painting Davis black will
not make Smith white. To-day eyery-
thing was going smoothly and SEEM
ingly with harmony, but this evening
there seems to be developing a DISPOSE
ton on the part OF the census officials
to make fight on Supervisor Smith,
which will make him hustle to take care
of himself. Through all the smoke and
din of the conflict there is a commenda-
BILE appearance of confidence i'll St.
Paul, so far as her corporations and her
best citizens are concerned. l do not
believe that there is single person
in the census Office. from the superin-
tendent to the lowest employe, who will
say word against the honor of the city.
Secretary Noble will not sit as an unin-
formed Judge when the hearing occurs.
He has been advised every night of the
condition of the matter from both
standpoints. and knows exactly what is
going on. He said to one of his inti-
mate friends, that while he believes
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