Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-04
MOBILES BACK Is UP.
The Bray of an ASS in a
Lions Skin.
Hear Him Roar at Governor
David B. Hill.
To Be Accused Of Census Frauds
Makes Him Mad.
de Is Not Disposed to Give New York
City Recount and Have His
Chicanery Exposed.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Secretary of the
Interior Noble today replied to the letter
of Governor Hill of the 31st ultimo, re-
garding the New York city census. Fol-
lowing are some extracts from the let
ter: '1t was wholly unnecessary for
you to remind me of the provisions of
the constitution of the United States re-
lating to the enumeration. and appor-
tionment of representatives or electoral
college; or the provisions of the census
law, allowing amendments and recounts.
Neither did l need any exhortation up
on the snbiect of fair apportionments.
1t is much to be regretted that in a let
ter to me. when acting upon purely Of
fetal matter, you, as governor, should
speak as partisan, and impute corrupt
purposes to the census enumerators to
secure party advantage by diminishing
the count of the city of New York.
Your imputation against the enumer-
ators and census work is SO entirely
gratuitous and unfounded as to be SLAM
derous; and you should know that your
abusive course could not tend to pro-
mote that fair and judicial consideration
l have been disposed to give the appli-
cation Of the mayor. Your charge, i'm
putting fraudulent motives to others,
rather suggests that, as your party
thinks an increased population would
inure to its advantage, 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 ac-
cusatlons, heretofore confined to inter
views and stump speeches, began even
before the enumeration was announced. !"
The secretary refers to the governors
speech at Indianapolis on the subject
last June, and adds: "You did not sue
ceed i'll these efforts to any considerable
degree, but you are largely responsible
for any inaccuracies that may exist.
You set the example of denouncing the
law OF congress, and the suggestion of
its violation by your less acute political
followers. Your early and continuous
partisan assaults upon the census, have
had necessarily motive which is easily
discerned. You further asserted in the
speech mentioned, that the Republican
party will not repudiate its declared pol
icy of breaking the power of the solid
south by deliberately gaining vast in
crease of population in that section.
The truth is no complaint whatever has
been received from any southern state,
as a state, against the census, and the
only serious claim OF erroneous diminu-
tion of population and representation
by state, comes from the Republican
state Of Oregon"
In conclusion the secretary SAYS: II
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 intemperance of the language you
have seen fit to use-language which is
as much lacking in truth as it is in the
dignity BETTING your great office, which
men of both political parties of New
York. Upon the merits of the mayors
application, shall reply to him."