Show I SCANDAl IN RETURNS a fROM CENSUS BUREAU BURAU Investigation Will Be De Made Immediately by Director fl Durand Into the Frauds That Have Haye f fi Been Perpetrated i p PRES IDENT TAfT SAYS THE GUILTY ONE SHAn SHALL Of DE Frauds Have Been Discovered red ered in the Population i of Western Cities Enumeration of Tacoma Shows Heavy Padding of the Rolls WASHINGTON Oct 10 1 Stagger Staggered ed by the enormous returns shown by bythe bythe the thc new census cen us by a number of west western western ern rn cities Dr Durand of the census bureau ordered an nu Investigation the result of or which appeared In the an j tonight ht that gross gloss frauds had hail been b en perpetrated Dr Durand gave out also a letter from President Taft directing that t persons implicated in the alleged frauds be prosecuted Western Cities Affected Cities specifically mentioned as be bc beI I Ing big affected by b the frauds arc Taco Tacoma t ma Seattle and ant Aberdeen Wash I Portland Ore Minneapolis Minn MinnI Mm ii Boise Dolse Idaho and Fort Smith Ark ArI ArII I but bul it il Is said that there are many man I others The result of or a second enumeration of Tacoma ww announced tonight The city shows a population of 82 Ii an increase e of or 01 JO per percent cent cant over oer the population of 1900 1000 Tho ho first figures turned lu hi for Tacoma Iacoma were II In other words the lie ac actual actual teal population was padded to the ex cx extent extent tent of which would have havo I meant a further addition of 10 40 per I I T Results Results G lt I In Tacoma om J 1 These additions were mantle made e In 31 H HI out of the 73 n enumeration districts In I Tacoma In some somo of these districts I the number reported proved to be bo sev several eral cral times limes greater than the actual population lion In ten districts enumerated the first census showed 7 3 names whore as the correct number was found to toby toI I be by The statement Issued by byI b bI I Director Durand consists In ht the main mainI I I of a n letter from himself addressed 1 m to Secretary Nagel Tour of the department II at or commerce and labor dated Oct Sin S 8 SIn In which the thc whole case Is s present presented ed et and a brief letter lettel from President Taft to Mr Ir Nagel of or late date of o Oct 11 Letter From President The letter otter front from President Taft follows fol follows lows f Beverly Mass Oct OcL 11 I have Itao read Director r Durands letter I and I agree with him that lint It ought to be beI I published The cases of all those who appear to have hao violated the law I should he investigated by b the grand brand jury jur and If sufficient evidence Is found to justify It they the should be in indicted and prosecuted at al once Noth Noh Nothing oth ing will so conduce c to securing a n proper census as IS the tho prosecution of oi those who attempt a fraud upon the law I l am led lod to believe that thal the pres present present present ent census has been heen much freer from attempted frauds than any nn previous census but bul the instances cited by b Mr r Durand are Ille t to require the till most vigilant action to bring those th se who have violated the law to justice and proper punishment Sincerely yours WILLIAM If Ii TAFT Hon Charles Nagel agel Secretary of o Commerce and Labor LaborThe LaborThe The letter of or Director Durand also addressed to Secretary Nagel agel sets forth that attempted padding of o the census was lS brought about mainly through the thc use of slips printed by hr private Individuals In and containing contain hI the tho census questions Padding Census Returns 1 These so worn were distributed very ory gener generally generally generally ally on street corners and elsewhere and were fi cd out by thousands of people who had either already alread been beon enumerated or 01 were not permanent residents of the lie city and not entitled to enumeration there bore It Il Is possible that hint In some cases the names named were wholly fictitious These Thes slips were turned over ocr by b the lie private individuals who collected them through a special agent ng nt of the census bureau named Corwin to 31 3 of the enumerators and they lher under the Instructions of or Cor Cot Corwin CorwIn win added tho the names to the cannier atlon by b assigning them as aM board hoard hoarder boarders ers era er or lodgers lod rs to various houses in their districts In other othol words the tho director states the enumerators de Ie deliberately made the tho false statement that these persons were resident at nt this 01 or that particular street num nuno number numer her ber er although the tho enumerators knew nothing n whatever with repard re artl to the so 10 f fraudulently added Enumerators in Tacoma The director says the lie census bu bureaus bureaus renus work worl wo l In recounting the popular population ion tion of the tho padded districts in Ta lu Tacoma Tacoma coma was wag done II one with the tho greatest care car carein carill in its order that the full fill population might ml ht be he ascertained the dI director ector declares also alo that lint more m e or less extensive at attempts attempts tempts at It padding the census been discovered iu In other clues clUe men mentioned and a ho lie adds that Investigations bons are arc In progress with reference to a number of still other cities chiles Full r lI Information regarding these cases case will avIll IK be made Lunde public later lutler In wan Instances be ho states this pad padding padding ding consisted in the thu repetition of or r 1 A visits of or enumerators to lO hotels board boarding t d I lug ing In houses and lodging houses Counted Everybody In this manner m people who camo CRIllO to lo the city on the census day tiny per perhaps lIC d haps hups merely for a stay of a few days were added to the lie enumeration as residents r Director Durand says that the lie sus HUll suspicions of or Chief Statistician William WilliamH H Jarvis Jarl of or the population division I of the census bureau with wilh regard tV tb to the census of OI Tacoma were aroused I when whon on careful examination c of the tho I schedules In the tho office at Washington It was found that there thero was an tut ab nb absurdly absurdly I largo number of families rep rop representing representing resenting great reat numbers of room roomS roomers ers ors and lodgers William A McKenzie a n bureau expert ex export expert pert port who had charge of the thc enumeration enumeration anion of the lie fourth district of or Alas Alaska Alasha ka la was sent by I Director Durand to Tacoma Iacoma and ami made mado a thorough Investigation In the ten districts men mentioned menh a complete was I made macle while in 21 other suspicious districts the head of each house was r I visited and Investigated Many an names were assigned to lo vacant lots and they th were eliminated To Place Responsibility Cne thie Ch dire ays fi itIs It Is not yon yet o known whether wh her Tiny any Individuals or I groups of or Individuals were I t ble for the lie false falso enumeration l In Ta Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma coma The claim Is la made that tho the names were given to the enumerators enumerator with the purpose of ascertain In I ing whether they the had been listed In Instead Instead stead of using the rho names for Cor this purpose the enumerators added them bout without making an examination In e excuse for this course they the say sn they j I were Wro acting under the tho direction of r Stacey Stace M 11 1 Corwin one of the lie special a agents of the census bureau at nt Ta Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma coma He distributed large bunches i of or the slips among the enumerators stating Mr lr Durand alleges that the th ii names were those of or bona fide rest resi re l J dents who should be tie registered Mr Jr Durand declares that butt Corwin went so far as to t say sa that the names must bo be counted even vil though thought the owners ow nors were J Ji I It i assigned to 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