New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-07
FIRST SIGNS OF FRAUD.

frpoM A eTKF CORRESPONDENT or ThE I1ioo"s'
Albany. May 6.-When, about an hour before
the LEGISLATURE adjourned on Thursday, April
81 Iast rcpo,t was handed into both houses
from the Secretary OF State purporting 10 give
tbe results OF the enumeration OF the lnhaol-
,ants of New-York State. taken under his direc-
rio, an February l6 it discovered that inc
countv totals exclusive of inmate populatioh'
as asccrtained and published by Mr.. Rcc
digered in every single instance from the
totals taken from duplicates OF the same Is's
he had used in his computations. as asceitllne'
and published by each OF the county clerks III
tho State. Naturally. 1t excited remark that
Nr Rice had been able to agree with no one
County Clerk The law under winch MI h'cc
took the enumeration required his enumera'orS
:; t county 10 deposit with the County Clerk
-, tlo county in which they scverally worked
certified comics Of the lists they handed in to
Mr. Rice. During March each of these County
Clerks computed from these duplicate lists Tie
total population Of his particular county. ana
published the result
r. micht well have been. OF course that IN
some instances Mr.. Rice's computations wou'u
have differed from those Of the County 'lerhs'
bnt that they shoJld have differed In every
case. in such enormous sums. with snch apPa'e
system and with political results In every III
stance TO the marked advantage OF the DEMO
cratic party, seerred decidedly odd. 1t was
found for instance. that Mr.. Porter had us
covered the population Of Queens County III
.lunc 1890. 10 he l2e.05o In March the County
Clerk Of Queens County, John RI. Suiphin, a Demo
crnt counted the names On Mr.. Rice's duplicate
lists filed at Jamaica and declared that they
contained l30.oO7 names. But Mr. Rice has
figured out these lists so as TO make them give TO
Queens COUNTY l4l ,5s6 population, l,Ji0 more
than Mr. Sutplin was able to count. AMI by N ans
of this enormous addition Queens County has oo-
tained third Democrats Asscmblyman. 1t was
found. too, that Mr Rice had decreased
the figures of the Republican counties
above the Harlem in fifteen instances, and had
actually diminished the population of twenty-five
Republican counties from the figures OF tie Porter
ccnsu, taken two years before
WHAT BECAME OF THE ALIEN PopULAuoN'
These were not all the curious things to he
found in Mr. Rice's tables. Is was discovered
that The number of aliens reported by hlm,
espccially in Ncw-York and Brooklyn, where the
large alien population was TO he looked Tor, was
strangely small According TO Federal satisfies.
alien males OF twcnty-onc years or over consUi-
tutc about one in five OF the alien population. In
June. 1880 Mr.. Porter had counted i'll NeN-fork
CITY 81 $50 of this class of aliens. That lndl-
Gated though with the mathematical cert'inty OF
fc insurance IA 'de that the entire al en- popull-
ton OF that city then about 100000 since
1890. and until February l6. 1892. more than q
million immigrants had landed at the port of New
York. and yet last February Mr. Rice claims that
there were only 317. .755 alters resident III the
entire city of New-I ork.
Similarly, Mr. Rces count Of the alien in
mates of charitable, penal and other institutions
throughout the State seemed TO be curiously def
cicnt. Assigning TO the city of Albany total
population of 97l20 people Mr.. Rlce found III
all these institutions ,l4l inmates chargeaDle ID
Albany and of these he says only III are aliens
To Syracuse he gives total population Of 'l.o4s,
and OF sol inmates chargcable to Syracuse he
SAWS that only sixty-nine aliens. 10 Rochester
N, gives total population of li4,s34. and OF
2IO4 inmates he says $40 are aliens. BuhaloS
population is 21s.706. almost twice as great a.
Rochcster's, and Immediately upon the Canadian
border but il is largely the property, politically
suc,kinp of the Hon. William 4. Sheelian. and
ITS inmate population is only 2,29l. OF whom only
Ran are aliens But the most astonishing facts
in connection with this inmate population app'r-
tain to the cities Of Brooklyn and New-iork
whore indeed. most of the astonishing and in
,crc,ting features OF Rccs census are found
Brooklyn has IA population of 93O,633, but III AN
thc institutions of this State, the prisons nos
nitaI, asvlums Mr. Rice could count only l,oeo
inmates chargcable to BroSklyn and of these only
.33 were aliens Ncw-lork, with its l,sol,13o
neoplc. was permitted the luxury of 2l.532 IN
mates and 59l4 were allowed to he aliens