The sun., 1892-03-06
THE. STATE ENUMERATION.
IT SHOWS THAT NEW YORK IS ENTI-
tiled TO THREE MORE CoyGRESs1fEN.

Two.thirds OF Tho Blanks Already Flied In
the once or the Secretary OF state-Un-
siAs the Porter Census, Duplicate Returns
Are FiIea with the County Clerks for
Public Inspectiou-The Simplicity or the
Method Of Enumeration aud OF the sys-
tenn for Compiling the Returns.
ALBANY. March 5.-Enumoration blanks have
already been filed In the off'ce OF the Secretary
Of State from over two-thirds OF tho election
districts in the state. and with Monday morn
inR's express almost nl Of the others are en-
pected to come in. 20 far as tho returns have
been tabulated they show an increase over the
fraudulent Porter census. This Is particularly
marke cd in the cities whore the Porter census
ignored the Democratic population in order
that the representation OF New York in the
electoral college might not get the increase to
which It was entitled Tho Stnte enumeration.
fdken undcr tho careful supervision OF tho
State authorities, will show that New York Is
entitled to three additional Congressman. and
that its electoral vote. instead OF being 30.
should bc :El
1t is important in comparing the results Of
the Porter census and the State enumeration
60 know that duplicate returns Of the State
enumeration nre required by law to be filed In
tho Office Of tho Clerk OF tho county for which
the enumeration ia made. whilo In tho Porter
census. for the first time in tho taking OF sew
erhl Federal censnses tho Ming OF any re-
turns whatever for public inspection was
omitted from tho lnw. and people had no op-
rortunity to SEQ whether they were recorded
or not. In tho State enumeration any one can
GO to the Office OF tho Clerk OF his county and
find out from the duplicate enumerators re-
turns 1ed there whether he and his family were
counted and whether any people were in.
cludcd who do not belong to his district. Tho
system of taking tho State enumeration by
election districts simplincs this. as the regis
try list OF last fall. and the knowledge that the
poitit tinns OF all parties have OF tlro voters and
residents of their districts makes correction
easy. and tends greatly to prevent any success
full fraud. should the enumerator be negligent
careless. or ACT on insufficient and inaccurate
information.
For simplicity the state enumeration can
not be well excellcd. No Federal census has
approached It in clcarncss. ease. and facility
OF accurate compilation. The only questions
asked are sex. age. color. citizcnshlr. and oc-
cupattou. Tho residence is found hy the
enumerator. and Is divided according to cleo
ton districts No troublesome questions. or
questions requiring technical Knowledge. or
prying into private affairs. arc asked In fact.
the enumerator on seeing the inhahitant could
answer most Of tho questions with accuracy
himself. and even tho questions about the age
and citizenship he could answer approXi-
mately.
A careful system Of receiving. filing away.
copying. and compiling tho returns has been
devised by Thomas + Benedict. Deputy Sec
rotary OF State. and ". s. Waterbury. chief
clerk OF the Secretary Of States Office who
has charge OF the extra force OF clerks en-
bloyed to do tho enumeration work. There
are some thrty-fye or forty Of these clerks.
at the rate OF day arh working eshs
two rooms on TIL the first floor Of III the northwest
corner Of the CarItol. This is another big
was taken and the State enumeration. New
ton Of tho United States. and yet there are not
census. and all the work. together with the
fecords. is kept ~ two rooms, instead OF 2
IsSt Of thu census ia
would almost pay for tho compilation OF the
State enumeration
the walls thSrs fays been built a cheap cheap frama. fs
svsy one Of Il" secenr Of t6
state, ia with m extra ,piEeonlhole for the
eRaritabe institutions % every Ena AIto Ito
eethcr there are some ilfty-two pigeonholcs.
= nd over them are labels OF the election dis:
Itgeonholes Is tho name OF the county or city.
the cities coming under their appropriate
Ths returns arc received II nastebonrd
tem Of receipts for them. and the failure of any
it Is checked or by the receiving, clerk witith
sScompanies i. Tie ennmerators are paid ut
the rate Of 81 day md one cent for every
her oi names that tile ennms srator has SEQ Counted
for 1t Is uni kelly TINT lie will make u mistake
cylinder. rhey are handed to a table lined with
clerks. who SEQ that the number of names
tho ' enumerator: When this has been done
the enumeratorAs a. bi is e sent to to the clerk Of
oi the auditing Of the office bills. and the iist
riseonheIs .xrs%dy over 10 Per M cent M 'ts q The
Of State does not want to repeat the Injustice
to the enumerators m Of the Porter census by de-
making the mistakes in amount due TO delay
The clerks who do the counting take tho ro-
trIcts first and count fhenl separately and in
dependently OF one another. First. one clerk
Ths mss sasisq Sy
the number OF names. eighty to the page, He
card wSich n name tSp tse eoanty tsa
toTn the ELECTION district. the number 81 il.
towns and counties From these clerks the
returns go to other clerks. who count tho num-
ber OF aliens and citizens. These returns are
OH separate cards. and they nre made out In a
manner similar to the first returns. only the
clerks who do tho second counting do not know
the result Of tho first count The two cards
ADDED together must tally with the first count
the list colored and white. or male and fe-
male; 1t is evident that there is a Iuadruplex
check on tho original count. as the number OF
the white Or coiored must correspond, with tho
her Of aliens and citzens.
There Is q big difference in this between the
way this Stnte enumeration Ia being taken
and the way , NJ, \. l Porter and tho Federal au;;
a few hundred costly machines. and then he
got other machines to punch holes In cards to
10 slipped into the costly machines. 40 that
the costly machinss could work and bring out
cafda had hecn punched for. II tho holes
were not punched right or II the machine
skipped a few holes. the census was that many
Neople ont Of tho way; and there was no cheek
was right. unless one OF the clerks should no.
tice that the mnch!n WAS going wrong. There