St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-06

L
one here from II. H. Young, ex-secre-
tary of the state board of immigration,
which will read.
The secretary then read remarkable
production. The letter contained abuse of
the secretary of which the author ought
to be ashamed, and of which the entire
city would probably be ashamed if they
could read it.
Mr.. Cochran and Senator Davis and
the entire delegation said in chorus that
the authorship Of the letter was such as
to warrant the secretary throwing it in
the waste basket and paying no atten-
tfon to it.
Mr. Cochran said: 1--WE desire to as
sure you, Mr.Secretary, and:your super
intendent, that we were impressed at the
very first with your fairness i'll every
respect. You have our perfect con-
fdence and we hope to have yours.
Secretary n oble-I believe that l want
to decide this case according to the facts
and do not want people in st. Paul to
write me such letters. They produce
actually no effect upon me, not even Of
annoyance. [ simply read you the let
ter, abusive as it is, in order that you
may know the intense bitterness of feel
ing in your own city, which is unde-
servedly aimed at me. The superin-
tendent has not been intending to advO-
cate case against st. Paul, or any
other city. We ale here to decide If the
enumerators have done their duty
honestly. If frauds have been commit
ted by our employees for reasons of their
own, we will discover them by the Slft-
ing process which is now going on; and
we want to say that the frauds which
we have discovered do not reflect upon
your city whatever.
No Reflection Upon st. Pan1.
Mr.. Porter-The secretary has ex-
pressed my feelings better than /
could do myself. If it becomes neces-
sary for us to make a recount of that
city it is a stigma upon the employees OF
the census Office, and it will not reflect
in any manner upon the city OF st. Paul
nor upon the secretary of the interior.
l have no reply whatever to make to
the admirable report by your commit
tee. What the committee says is
absolutely true. They admit that
nine districts should be purged
of their frauds. District No. ITO
is not included ain that number.
l found in that district that 257 persons
are enumerated at the cathedral school.
Special>Agent Boudinot telegraphs to
me that this is parochial school and
that none Of the persons enumerated
sleep there or have their homes there.
There are other frauds in District No.
1855. Moreover Mr.. Secretary, as far as
we have gone we have discovered thirty
four districts which are as much i'll need
of a recount as any of the nine districts
which are conceded to be imperfect
by the st. Paul committee. The
time of the secretary is too valu-
able to extend in listening to the read
ing of facts from all of these thirty-four
districts, and l Will simply lay the pa
pers before him for his examination at
such time as he may be able to give
them consideration. The force of the
census Office is now arranging all OF the
schedules of st. Paul alphabetically.
We have gone through as far as the let
one letter sufficient to show that in pro-.
portion there must be Implications to
the number of 1000 in the city.
Mr.. Driscoll-I understand the super
intendent relieves the city of st. Pau
from all taint of fraud. [ understand
| him to say he regards the map as en-
tirely incompetent testimony. would
ask the superintendent of census II he
does not intend to give complete cen
sus of the city of st. Paul as OF other
cities? l would like to ask him if he
would instruct his enumerators to pass
the Pioneer Press building
Must Visit All Buildings.
| Supt. Porter-No; would ask them to
make proper inquiries concerning
| business building of that kind.
| Mr.. Driscoll-Does not the regulation
require him to visit every building in
his district?
Supt. Porter-Yes, sir; the regulation
makes that requirement.
Mr.. Driscoll-I would like to ask the
superintendent if, in the case OF Fred
| Pike, who had been refused re-enumera-
tiop in his country home, the superin-
tendent would exclude him from
enumeration in the Pioneer Press build
ing, as a lodger there?
| Supt. Porter-Yes, sir; would GER
| tainly exclude him from enumeration
there.
Mr.. Driscoll-There was Mr.. Leedom
Sharpe, whose is a similar case. He
was enumerated in the Pioneer Press
building, and friend of his family told
the enumerator in the district where he
has his winter residence, that he should
have been enumerated there, and the
name was thereby duplicated. Accord
|
tendent of the census, should think
that the work of the census of the
United States must be very incomplete
in all of the very large cities.
Supt. Porter-Of course there are i'll
dividual cases, such as you state, but
they do not affect the general result.
Mr.. Smith-The superintepdent's
book expressly states that there is no
method known to avoid duplication.
Supt. Porter-That is true, but at the
same time it is not necessary to go gun
ming after Implications. as seems to
have been done in st. Paul.
Secretary Nobel understand that
you gentlemen admit that nine districts
need re-eXamination. The superintend-
ent informs me that he already knows
of thirty-four districts which
Should BE Recounted.
The question in my mind is now
whether the force of the census Office
should be taken from their work and
j devote their time to an examination Of
all the 1875 schedules of the city, or
whether the entire city should be re-
courted. That Is question
which | must decide for my
self. You gentlemen must under
stand that the census bureau is only
one OF tno e1gnI great bureaus III InlS
department over which | preside. l
must look after the Indian bureau. pat
ent office, the geological survey. con-
cernlng the arid lands and all other
things of that nature, and l am obliged
to depend upon all Of the heads of those
various bureaus. l want to say to you
that have found in the superintendent
of the census a gentleman of remarka-
BILE ability and fairness, and that have
no hesitancy in relying upon
any recommendation he may make
to me. sssss
Three Are HOmeWard Bound.
The delegation separated tonight.
Messrs. Driscoll, Castle and Smith left
for home. Mr. Cochran leaves for New
York tomorrow morning, and Senator
Mcmillan will leave for home to-mor-
row evening. The decision of the Sec
retary may not be forthcoming officially
until the latter part of the week, but it
will be a decision to affirm his former