Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-24
CENSUS IN THE sOUrIi.
Irregularities Discovered I'm ArHan-
sas = wholesale UnGerenumern-

Irregularities Discovered I'm Arkan.
sas = wholesale UnGerenumern-
ftOnss
Correspondence New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Arkansas dele,
cation In Congress Is mp In arms at the way
| the census has been taken In their state.
| They claim so faulty has been the work
that the result will be no trne Indication
whatever of the real population OF their
state. In Little Rock there is an oHtcry at
| the announcement that the city has only
10000 Inhabitants, and active steps are ia
I progress to secure either second count OF
some sort OF an investigation. The result
Is attributed largely to the inefiiclency and
untltness OF the men selected as enumera-
tors, many OF them ignorant negroes with
no qualifications for the work. Said Sena-
| tor Jones:
while some Of the enumerators were to
| my knowledge ex client men, many are
said to be utterly Incompetent. II Little
| ROCK is returned az 10000 then there must
be gross errors In the count, for the city
has grown from 80 to 100 per cent since
1880, miles of street railw have been
constructed, and everything about the town
indicates large growth. To give you an
idea OF the character of the complaints,
ex Governor Rector, who lives Within q
block OF the government building at Little
ROCK, writes ms that not II maDber of his
family has seen an enumerator. He also
says that he has n plantation some miles
from the city With about 100 persons on the
place, and that mona OF them have hesn
TAKEN. Ihey were overlooked, strange to
say.
"The chamber of commeree OF Little Rock
have forwarded me set OF resolutions
which l have laid before Commissioner
Porter. Among other faeta in this con-
ne3tion was an Interview with I'M enumer-
ator, in which ne said IL w0s Impossible TO
do the work In the limited tlme and that
some Of the enumerators were too isnoraut
TO properly discharge their duties"
4hs senator further said he had a letter
from Camden, Ark, In which 1t was alleged
lid some OF the ennmerators In that sec.
tlon OF the state had newer even seen the
districts to which they were assign d, AMI
one III particular threw up the job after
doing little work, atying rhare was no
money ia 1t tor him. IIS believed tha there
wore at least l,2oO.OOQ ptooa III Atk4nsAs,
and probably more. u nigratioa aad
poured .ntp ell sec;.sas VI tha state, and
the Increase was plainly pereeptlbie.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Representative Dibule, of South Carolina,
says: "The people OF Charleston are con.
WINGED their census has NOT naen accurately
taken. The city lacked only l6 OF having
6O,Ou0 In 1887. Now this census shows ess
than $4,000. In Dscsmner 1885,, 4 census
which gave the total population a. 6D,l45.
Ihis was before the earthqaase. Ia 1883
the city directory people took honIs 10
house census and returned the sho city at
62,O0O This wa! subsequent 70 the earth
quake. 30 great has been the umplaint
tnat MI. Porter has orde ed an iavestlga.
tion to b4 made"
Mr.. DIbbla said that In his own iowa
Sorangeburg) he knew OF people who had
been overlooked by the enumerators, and
8. O.
TENNESSEE.
Representative Ealoe OF Tennessee. said
he had heard OF little complaint In mis- state
outside Of MempHls aud Jackson. Ii the
latter city Il was claimed that u numapr OF
persons had bsen omitted, and recount
was wanted.
Judge Hnuck said Knoxville proper had
Increased $50 PSF cent and its suburbs 40
per cent. rhs letter carrisra In Knoxville
supplied $4,000 people. Tennessee will
chow a great increase.
representative Clay Evans Of Tennessee,
said: 1T the increase continues as heavy
throughout the state as the census shows Il
TO be ia the Second census district, which
comprises the Third aad part OF the Fourth
Congressional districts. Tennessee will
have 1000, 900 people, Chattanooga in 1880
had 10000. This csnsus gives Il 10000"
ALABAMA.
MIR. y. P. Glass manager OF the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Adoertiser, who was found
with Senator Pugh Of Alabama, said there
was great disati faction with the count In
Montgomery, which showed a 900 people,
as against 1900 in 1850. The growth OF
Nj Montgomery had been very great within
the past tew years, whole blocks had gone
up 10 all directions, and 1t seemed impos.
slnle that the city had not increased her
population more than 1000 In 10 years.
There was talk, he said, Of demanding a
recount.
GEORGIA.
learned from one Of the Georgia mem
bsrs that the people Of Augusta, Ga, are
SO dissatisfied with the census OF that city
that they are having q speeia! one taken at
their city's expense. Among other gus
tons asked OF each person will be the fol-
lowing: "Wars you or this family enum.
Rted In the United States census OF 1899
Name OF enuneratiug officer, July, 1890"
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