The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-03
A BIG JOB ON THEIR HANDS.

Ths Inspection of the County Regis
tretion Books IN Progress.
The gentlemen who undertook to inspect
the books of the county registration have
discovered that the job is a great deal big
ger than they had any idea Of. II they
have not undertaken more than they could
handle they have at least undertaken a job
that win last them until the morning of the
election at the rate of twenty -four hours
work day.
The gentlemen who were authorized to
make the inspection, Mr.. Walter s. King,
Col. J. L. Whatley and Messrs. J. 8. Col
Inns and P. d. Daffin, were on hand promptly
at Capt. billions office yesterday morning
at O'Clock. They were met by Capt Dill
lon, clerk Of the county commissioners, and
Mr.. James Mcintyre, clerk OF registration,
and the inspection of the books was at once
begun.
THE WAY IT IS BEING DONE.
The modus operandi of the inspection was
as follows: One Of the inspectors took
| charge OF the book Of registration prepared
Tor the managers, another took the printed
list, which is also Issued to the managers,
| and with Capt. Dillon or Mr.. Mcintyre in
| charge of the original book of registration,
the work Of checking the books and lists
| against each other begun.
Mr.. King first took charge OF the man
ayers book, Col. Whatley of the printed
list and Capt. Dillon OF the original registry
book. The inspection began at A, and
before dozen names had been checked the
gentlemen discovered that the task they
had undertaken included more work than
play. Each name taken in alphabetical
| order from the printed list had to be searched
~ al bod .fe-s,
the managers book, and after all the names
| beginning with one letter had been checked
| through, all the lists had 10 be searched
over to discover If there were any names on
one hss that did not appear upon the Others.
ONLY A FEW ERRORS.
By 2 o'clock the inspectors had gotten
| through with A and B of the names Of
whites. They then adjourned for dinner.
Only half dozen mistakes had been dis
| cove ed by this time and these were whe
the initials or spelling of name on one
list differed from that on another. Two in
stances were discovered where the same
man appeared TO be registered twice, ons
being where The same name with the same
vocation was registered at two different
locations and the other where the same man
| appeared 20 be registered at the same loca-
| ton twice, there being one more letter in
the n me in one instance than In the other
inspection. One hour was taken for dinner ,
and at o'clock the work of inspection was
begun again aud continued until O'Clock,
when an adjournment was taken to o'clock.
TO GO THROUGH WITH 1T.
The inspectors announced their intention
Of continuing the inspection all night and
all through to-day, aud If necessary to con-
tinue the work through tonight. Both sides
are determined to finish the inspection be-
| fore Wednesday morning. The candidates
| are determined to finish the inspection be-
cause they could not afford to give up the
work half finished, as it would be an ad-
| mission on their part that they did not find
| the inspection necessary and then possibly
| they might discover errors later on that
would help their side OF the case. Capt.
| Dillon on his part is determined that the in-
spection shall be full and complete,
He proposes to demonstrate satisfactorily
to everybody that the registration lists and
books are as complete and correct as 1t is
possible for human fAllibility 90 make
them, and that such errors as exist are
| purely clerical.
1t has been admitted privately by the
| gentlemen who are now engaged in inspect
ing the books of registration that they had
| no idea when they made their request that
the books would be thrown open to them.
AS political capital the inspection business
| has proved a sort OF boomerang.