113th New York State Legislature

The 113th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to May 9, 1890, during the sixth year of David B. Hill's governorship, in Albany.

113th New York State Legislature
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New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1890
Senate
Members	32
President	Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones (D)
Temporary President	Jacob Sloat Fassett (R)
Party control	Republican (19-13)
Assembly
Members	128
Speaker	James W. Husted (R)
Party control	Republican (71-57)
Sessions
1st January 7 – May 9, 1890

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts; senators for a two-year term, assemblymen for a one-year term. The senatorial districts were made up of entire counties, except New York County (seven districts) and Kings County (three districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards,^[1] forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In New York City, the Democrats were split into two factions: Tammany Hall and the "County Democracy". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated state tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1889 was held on November 5. All six statewide elective office up for election was carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Democrats 506,000; Republicans 485,000; Prohibition 27,000; and Greenback 1,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1890; and adjourned on May 9.

James W. Husted (R) was again elected Speaker, against William F. Sheehan (D).

Jacob Sloat Fassett (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

State Senate

Districts

• 1st District: Queens and Suffolk counties
• 2nd District: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th and 22nd Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht in Kings County
• 3rd District: 3rd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd Ward of the City of Brooklyn
• 4th District: 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of New Lots and Flatlands in Kings County
• 5th District: Richmond County and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th and parts of the 4th and 9th Ward of New York City
• 6th District: 7th, 11th, 13th and part of the 4th Ward of NYC
• 7th District: 10th, 17th and part of the 15th, 18th and 21st Ward of NYC
• 8th District: 16th and part of the 9th, 15th, 18th, 20th and 21st Ward of NYC
• 9th District: Part of the 18th, 19th and 21st Ward of NYC
• 10th District: Part of the 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd Ward of NYC
• 11th District: 23rd and 24th, and part of the 12th, 20th and 22nd Ward of NYC
• 12th District: Rockland and Westchester counties
• 13th District: Orange and Sullivan counties
• 14th District: Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties
• 15th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties
• 16th District: Rensselaer and Washington counties
• 17th District: Albany County
• 18th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady counties
• 19th District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
• 20th District: Franklin, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties
• 21st District: Oswego and Jefferson counties
• 22nd District: Oneida County
• 23rd District: Herkimer, Madison and Otsego counties
• 24th District: Chenango, Delaware and Broome counties
• 25th District: Onondaga and Cortland counties
• 26th District: Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins and Tioga counties
• 27th District: Allegany, Chemung and Steuben counties
• 28th District: Ontario, Schuyler, Wayne and Yates counties
• 29th District: Monroe and Orleans counties
• 30th District: Genesee, Livingston, Niagara and Wyoming counties
• 31st District: Erie County
• 32nd District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Patrick H. McCarren, George F. Roesch, Harvey J. Donaldson, Charles T. Saxton and Greenleaf S. Van Gorder changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Edward Hawkins	Democrat
2nd	John C. Jacobs	Democrat
3rd	James W. Birkett	Republican
4th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat
5th	William L. Brown	Tammany Dem.
6th	John F. Ahearn	County Dem.
7th	George F. Roesch*	Tammany Dem.
8th	Lispenard Stewart	Republican
9th	Charles A. Stadler*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
10th	Jacob A. Cantor*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
11th	Eugene S. Ives*	Tammany Dem.	re-elected
12th	William H. Robertson*	Republican	re-elected
13th	William P. Richardson	Republican
14th	John J. Linson*	Democrat	re-elected
15th	Gilbert A. Deane*	Republican	re-elected
16th	Michael F. Collins*	Democrat	re-elected; contested by James C. Rogers (R)
17th	Norton Chase	Democrat	contested by George H. Treadwell (R)
18th	Harvey J. Donaldson*	Republican
19th	Louis W. Emerson	Republican
20th	George Z. Erwin*	Republican	re-elected
21st	George B. Sloan*	Republican	re-elected
22nd	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Republican	re-elected
23rd	Titus Sheard	Republican
24th	Edmund O'Connor	Republican
25th	Francis Hendricks*	Republican	re-elected
26th	Thomas Hunter	Republican
27th	J. Sloat Fassett*	Republican	re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore
28th	Charles T. Saxton*	Republican
29th	Donald McNaughton*	Democrat	re-elected
30th	Greenleaf S. Van Gorder*	Republican
31st	John Laughlin*	Republican	re-elected
32nd	Commodore P. Vedder*	Republican	re-elected

Employees

• Clerk: John S. Kenyon
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles V. Schram
• Doorkeeper: Edward R. Gibbons
• Stenographer: George H. Thornton

State Assembly

Assemblymen

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Michael J. Nolan	Democrat
	2nd	William B. Page	Republican
	3rd	Galen R. Hitt*	Democrat
	4th	Michael C. Gillice	Democrat	contested; seat vacated
		William Burton LeRoy	Republican	seated on April 15
Allegany		Addison S. Thompson	Republican
Broome		Israel T. Deyo	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Burton B. Lewis	Republican
	2nd	James S. Whipple*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	George W. Dickinson	Republican
	2nd	Leander Fitts*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican
	2nd	George E. Towne*	Republican
Chemung		Robert P. Bush*	Democrat
Chenango		Edgar A. Pearsall*	Republican
Clinton		Alfred Guibord	Republican
Columbia		Aaron B. Gardenier	Republican
Cortland		Rufus T. Peck*	Republican
Delaware		James Ballantine	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Willard H. Mase*	Republican
	2nd	Johnston de Peyster*	Republican
Erie	1st	William F. Sheehan*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	2nd	Matthias Endres*	Democrat
	3rd	Leroy Andrus*	Republican
	4th	Henry H. Guenther*	Democrat
	5th	William B. Currier	Republican
Essex		Thomas J. Treadway*	Republican
Franklin		William C. Stevens*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		John Christie	Republican
Genesee		Francis T. Miller	Republican
Greene		Omar V. Sage	Democrat
Herkimer		John D. Henderson^[2]	Democrat
Jefferson	1st	Henry J. Lane*	Republican
	2nd	Isaac Mitchell	Republican
Kings	1st	Hugh A. McTernan	Democrat
	2nd	Bernard J. McBride	Democrat
	3rd	John Cooney	Democrat
	4th	John J. O'Connor	Democrat
	5th	John Kelly*	Democrat
	6th	William E. Shields	Democrat
	7th	Adam Schaaff*	Democrat
	8th	William Blanchfield*	Democrat
	9th	George Gretsinger	Republican
	10th	Thomas F. Byrnes	Democrat
	11th	George L. Weed	Republican
	12th	Charles J. Kurth	Republican
Lewis		LeRoy Crawford	Republican
Livingston		Elias H. Davis	Republican
Madison		Samuel R. Mott	Republican
Monroe	1st	Frank M. Jones	Republican
	2nd	(P. Andrew Sullivan)	Democrat	did not take his seat; death announced on January 15
		Robert Courtney		elected to fill vacancy; seated on February 26
	3rd	Edwin A. Loder*	Republican	died on June 5, 1890
Montgomery		John Knox Stewart	Republican
New York	1st	Patrick H. Duffy*	Tammany Dem.
	2nd	Timothy D. Sullivan*	Tammany Dem.
	3rd	James A. Monaghan	County Dem.
	4th	Thomas Brady	County Dem.
	5th	Dominick F. Mullaney*	Tammany Dem.
	6th	Gustav Menninger	County Dem.
	7th	Francis V. King*	Republican
	8th	Philip Wissig	County Dem.
	9th	John Martin*	Democrat
	10th	William Sohmer	Tammany Dem.
	11th	William N. Hoag	Republican
	12th	Moses Dinkelspiel*	County Dem./Rep.
	13th	Frederick S. Gibbs*	Republican
	14th	William Sulzer	Tammany Dem.
	15th	Frederick Haffner*	Tammany Dem.
	16th	Walter G. Byrne	Tammany Dem.
	17th	John Kerrigan*	Democrat
	18th	Stephen J. O'Hare	Tammany Dem.
	19th	John Connelly*	Tammany Dem.
	20th	Myer J. Stein^[3]	Tammany Dem.
	21st	Richard J. Lewis	Republican
	22nd	Joseph Blumenthal*	Tammany Dem.
	23rd	George P. Webster	Tammany Dem.
	24th	Christopher C. Clarke*	Tammany Dem.
Niagara	1st	Ruthven Kill	Democrat
	2nd	J. Marville Harwood*	Democrat
Oneida	1st	James K. O'Connor	Republican
	2nd	James L. Dempsey	Democrat
	3rd	Russell S. Johnson	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Howard G. White	Republican
	2nd	Willis B. Burns	Republican
	3rd	Ignatius Sawmiller	Republican
Ontario		Sanford W. Abbey	Democrat
Orange	1st	John C. Adams*	Republican
	2nd	George W. Greene*	Democrat
Orleans		Wallace L'Hommedieu	Republican
Oswego	1st	Nevada N. Stranahan	Republican
	2nd	Wilbur H. Selleck	Republican
Otsego	1st	Oscar F. Lane	Democrat
	2nd	Nathan Bridges	Republican
Putnam		Hamilton Fish II	Republican
Queens	1st	Solomon S. Townsend*	Democrat
	2nd	Henry C. Johnson	Republican
Rensselaer	1st	James M. Riley	Democrat
	2nd	Joseph S. Saunders*	Republican
	3rd	John W. McKnight	Democrat	contested by James S. Rowley (R)^[4]
Richmond		Daniel T. Cornell	Democrat
Rockland		Arthur S. Tompkins	Republican
St. Lawrence	1st	N. Martin Curtis*	Republican
	2nd	William H. Kimball*	Republican
	3rd	William Bradford	Republican
Saratoga	1st	Cornelius R. Sheffer	Republican
	2nd	Frank M. Boyce	Democrat
Schenectady		George W. Van Vranken	Democrat
Schoharie		Alonzo B. Coons	Democrat
Schuyler		Charles T. Willis	Republican
Seneca		John H. Stevens	Democrat
Steuben	1st	Peter B. Pealer	Democrat
	2nd	Milo M. Acker*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
Suffolk		James H. Pierson	Republican
Sullivan		William R. Rose	Republican
Tioga		Abram I. Decker*	Republican
Tompkins		Nelson Stevens	Republican
Ulster	1st	James H. Everett	Republican
	2nd	Jacob Rice*	Democrat
	3rd	George H. Bush*	Democrat
Warren		Scott Barton*	Republican
Washington	1st	Charles W. Larmon*	Republican
	2nd	Albert Johnson	Republican
Wayne	1st	John P. Bennett	Republican
	2nd	Richard P. Groat*	Republican
Westchester	1st	J. Irving Burns	Republican
	2nd	Bradford Rhodes*	Republican
	3rd	James W. Husted*	Republican	elected Speaker
Wyoming		I. Sam Johnson	Republican
Yates		Calvin J. Huson	Democrat

Employees

• Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
• Sergeant-at-Arms: James H. Manville
• Doorkeeper: Homer B. Webb
• Stenographer: Isaac H. Smith

Notes

1. Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.
2. John Dryden Henderson (born 1846), grandson of assemblymen Daniel C. Henderson (in 1827) and Stephen Ayres (in 1836), nephew of assemblyman Dryden Henderson (in 1853)
3. Myer J. Stein, brother of assemblyman Joseph L. Stein (in 1877)
4. see ONE ASSEMBLY SEAT TO BE CONTESTED in NYT on November 10, 1889

Sources

• The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; see pg. 384f for senate districts; pg. 403 for senators; pg. 410–417 for Assembly districts; and pg. 507f for assemblymen)
• Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1890)