The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-21

men and the giving of orders to the
night watchman to admit the clerks
to the rooms containing the sched-
ules.'
Three Copyists Employed.
"Examnatio of House report No.
1888 of the first session of the fifty
second Congress, referred to in Mr.
Richards statement, diScloSes the
fact that the three men who did the
work Of copying the enumerator's
schedules We're Q. j. Schneider, of
Wisconsin; w. b. Merriam. of North
Carolina, and K. II. Lewis, a negro,
from Virginia. The watchman who
is said TO have been directed by Mr..
Hyde to admit these men into the
building, was Christopher H. O'Brien.
In his testimony before the House
committee which investigated the
Census Bureau, Watchman O'Brien
testified that the three men named
entered the building about o'clock
and remained until about IL o'clock
every night for about three weeks.
He said that Mr.. Hyde told him that
they We're on special work. and that
the men entered the building on passes
furnished by MIR. Hyde.
20. j. Schneider testified before
the House committee on June 8, 1892,
that he was one of the three men who
were passed into the Census building
to do special work. They were en-
ployes, he said. of the bureau, ana
the special work consisted of taking
from the census schedules the flames
of farmers who found it necessary TO
irrigate their land. He said the pub
lication for which the names We're
furnished was the Irrigation Age.
That the government did not pay for
this work; that the work was paid
l. II
that the three men entered the build
ing OH the authority of Mr.. Hyde, and
that they were engaged at the instance
of Mr.. Hyde to do the work was in
the evidence. Mr.. Schneider testified
that he was paid by Mr.. Hyde by
checks on the Lincoln National Bank,
of this city.
professor Richards Statement.
"In statement TO a correspondent
of the Sun today Professor Richard
said:
In the winter of 1S90-91 l was
assigned in the agricultural division or
the census, presided over by Mr.. John
Hyde, to the preparation of a special
report on the sugar-beet industry.
After carefully studying the history cf
the industry in France, Germany and
Austria and the efforts to develop 1t
in the United States, / gave my at
tention to the enumerators schedules.
to ascertain how extensively ii had
been produced in this country. l soon
learned that both, farmers and enum-
orators had failed to discriminate be-
tween the sugar beet and the ordinary
beet used for culinary purposes.
After waiting in vain number of
DAYS for blanks and envelopes for cor
respondence, bought envelopes.
stamps and paper of my own, did the
corresponding and received to my own
address the information sought, en-
bodying it conscientiously and fully IN
my report, and turned the same over
to my official superior. The letters,
papers. etc. l received came in my
own return envelopes and We're in my
possession at the time / was dis
charged, on June II. 1891, from the
Census Office. In fact, circulars. pa
pers. etc. continued to come to my
address for months and years after
ward. They had no value to me ana
| had no interest in retaining posses
sion of them. The official notice Of
my discharge specified that it was
owing to the necessary reduction Of
force
Arrest Declared an Outrage.
'On June 20, 1891. a mass meeting
of dismissed clerks from the Census
sending a protest to President Harri-
son. | was chosen secretary OF the
meeting and signed the protest in my
official capacity. This communication
was acknowledged on June 25 by
Private Secretary Halford. On The
following day I was waited upon by
a deputy United States marshal with
a warrant for my arrest When
asked on what grounds. he said: For
purloining government papers from
the United States Census Office Such
letters and papers as l had / turned
over to him, with the statement that
they were my own, secured at my own
expense. but that ] cared nothing Tor
their retention. l gave bond for Sb00
to appear when wanted. In this man
ner the whole affair remained from
June 90 until October 10.
I made two written demands for
trial without success, and also two
oral demands / finally went into
court on October 10, 1891, and asked
permission TO read a statement In
that statement I declared that | had
been arrested on the affidavit of Mr..
John Hyde. After one weeks delay
the matter came to a elimination be-
fore Judge Bradley and the case was
Judge Bradley that my arrest was
not only high-handed outrage, but
was inspired by some influence against
me in the department
Porter Appointed Englisihmen.
Prof Richard declared today that
the present status of affairs in the
Agricultural Department was, in his
opinion. "traceable TO conditions that
obtained in the Eleventh Census un-
der the management of Superintendent
Robert p Porter
''Mr. Porter" said Professor Rich
ard. was an Englishman, and select
ed as leaders of important inquiries
inexperienced, and in several cases un-
E,nglishmen. The wonder
was then-and has never ceased-why
the alien element Should be given
such prominence in a. work purely
American.
II do not want to jump on q man
after ne is down. remarked Mr..
Cheatham this evening. but we be-
iieve that if Holmes was guilty of
having manipulated the cotton reports.
some one was 10 blame for permitting
him TO carry on his operations with
out interruption for so long a pc
riod. Hyde should have discovered
wnat Holmes was doing. and dismissed
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