122nd New York State Legislature

The 122nd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to April 28, 1899, during the first year of Theodore Roosevelt's governorship, in Albany.

122nd 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, 1899
Senate
Members	50
President	Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff (R)
Temporary President	Timothy E. Ellsworth (R)
Party control	Republican (27-23)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	S. Frederick Nixon (R)
Party control	Republican (88-62)
Sessions
1st January 4 – April 28, 1899

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 Senators and 150 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 (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), Erie County (three districts) and Monroe County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of contiguous area, all within the same county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Socialist Labor Party, the Prohibition Party and the Citizens Union also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1898 was held on November 8. Theodore Roosevelt was elected Governor; and Lt. Gov. Timothy L. Woodruff was re-elected; both Republicans. The other five statewide elective office up for election were also carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republican 662,000; Democratic 644,000; Socialist Labor 24,000; Prohibition 18,000; and Citizens Union 2,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1899; and adjourned on April 28.

S. Frederick Nixon (R) was elected Speaker.

Timothy E. Ellsworth (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

On January 17, the Legislature elected Chauncey M. Depew (R) to succeed Edward Murphy, Jr. (D) as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1899.

State Senate

Districts

• 1st District: Richmond and Suffolk counties
• 2nd District: Queens County
• 3rd District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 4th District: 7th, 13th, 19th and 21st Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 5th District: 8th, 10th, 12th and 30th Ward of Brooklyn, and the annexed former Town of Gravesend, as constituted in 1894
• 6th District: 9th, 11th, 20th and 22nd Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 7th District: 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 8th District: 23rd, 24th, 25th and 29th Ward of Brooklyn; and the annexed former Town of Flatlands, as constituted in 1894
• 9th District: 18th, 26th, 27th and 28th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
• 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st District: Parts of the City of New York, defined geographically by their bordering streets, regardless of Wards or Assembly districts
• 22nd District: Westchester County
• 23rd District: Orange and Rockland counties
• 24th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam and counties
• 25th District: Greene and Ulster counties
• 26th District: Chenango, Delaware and Sullivan counties
• 27th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties
• 28th District: Saratoga, Schenectady and Washington counties
• 29th District: Albany County
• 30th District: Rensselaer County
• 31st District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
• 32nd District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
• 33rd District: Otsego and Herkimer counties
• 34th District: Oneida County
• 35th District: Jefferson and Lewis counties
• 36th District: Onondaga County
• 37th District: Oswego and Madison counties
• 38th District: Broome, Cortland and Tioga counties
• 39th District: Cayuga and Seneca counties
• 40th District: Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins counties
• 41st District: Steuben and Yates counties
• 42nd District: Ontario and Wayne counties
• 43rd District: 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Brighton, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Menden, Penfield, Perinton, Pittsford, Rush and Webster, in Monroe County
• 44th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 19th and 20th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and Wheatland, in Monroe County
• 45th District: Genesee, Niagara and Orleans counties
• 46th District: Allegany, Livingston and Wyoming counties
• 47th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Ward of Buffalo
• 48th District: 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th Ward of Buffalo
• 49th District: 17th, 18th and 25th Ward of the City of Buffalo; and all area in Erie County outside Buffalo
• 50th District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present-day City of New York. The Eastern part of Queens County (the non-consolidated part) was separated in 1899 as Nassau County. Parts of the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts of Westchester County were annexed by New York City in 1895, and became part of the Borough of the Bronx in 1898.

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Thomas H. Cullen, David Floyd Davis, Henry Marshall, Thomas F. Donnelly, Richard H. Mitchell, William J. Graney, Louis F. Goodsell and William W. Armstrong changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	John L. Havens	Democrat
2nd	James Norton	Democrat
3rd	Thomas H. Cullen*	Democrat
4th	David Floyd Davis*	Republican
5th	Michael J. Coffey*	Democrat	re-elected
6th	William J. La Roche	Democrat
7th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat	re-elected
8th	Henry Marshall*	Republican
9th	Joseph Wagner	Democrat
10th	John F. Ahearn*	Democrat	re-elected
11th	Timothy D. Sullivan*	Democrat	re-elected
12th	Samuel J. Foley*	Democrat	re-elected
13th	Bernard F. Martin*	Democrat	re-elected
14th	Thomas F. Grady*	Democrat	re-elected; Minority Leader
15th	Nathaniel A. Elsberg	Republican
16th	Louis Munzinger*	Democrat	re-elected
17th	George W. Plunkitt	Democrat
18th	Maurice Featherson*	Democrat	re-elected
19th	John Ford*	Republican	re-elected
20th	Thomas F. Donnelly*	Democrat
21st	Richard H. Mitchell*	Democrat
22nd	William J. Graney*	Democrat
23rd	Louis F. Goodsell*	Republican
24th	Henry S. Ambler	Republican
25th	Jacob Rice	Democrat
26th	William L. Thornton	Republican
27th	Hobart Krum*	Republican	re-elected
28th	Edgar T. Brackett*	Republican	re-elected
29th	Curtis N. Douglas	Democrat
30th	Frank M. Boyce	Democrat
31st	George Chahoon*	Republican	re-elected
32nd	George R. Malby*	Republican	re-elected
33rd	James D. Feeter	Republican
34th	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Republican	re-elected
35th	Elon R. Brown*	Republican	re-elected
36th	Horace White*	Republican	re-elected
37th	Nevada N. Stranahan*	Republican	re-elected
38th	William Elting Johnson*	Republican	re-elected
39th	Benjamin M. Wilcox*	Republican	re-elected
40th	Charles T. Willis	Republican
41st	Franklin D. Sherwood	Republican
42nd	John Raines*	Republican	re-elected
43rd	Cornelius R. Parsons*	Republican	re-elected
44th	William W. Armstrong*	Republican
45th	Timothy E. Ellsworth*	Republican	re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore
46th	Lester H. Humphrey*	Republican	re-elected
47th	William F. Mackey	Democrat
48th	Samuel J. Ramsperger	Democrat
49th	George Allen Davis*	Republican	re-elected
50th	Frank W. Higgins*	Republican	re-elected

Employees

• Clerk: James S. Whipple
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Henry Jacquilard
• Doorkeeper: John E. Gorss
• Stenographer: A. B. Sackett

State Assembly

Assemblymen

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	William L. Coughtry*	Republican
	2nd	James B. McEwan*	Republican
	3rd	George T. Kelly*	Democrat
	4th	Henry M. Sage	Republican
Allegany		Almanzo W. Litchard*	Republican
Broome	1st	James T. Rogers	Republican
	2nd	Edgar L. Vincent*	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	George A. Stoneman*	Republican
	2nd	Albert T. Fancher	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Elias Q. Dutton*	Republican
	2nd	George S. Fordyce*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	J. Samuel Fowler	Republican
	2nd	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican	elected Speaker
Chemung		David N. Heller	Democrat
Chenango		Jotham P. Allds*	Republican	Majority Leader
Clinton		Edmund J. Pickett*	Democrat
Columbia		Lester J. Bashford	Democrat
Cortland		George S. Sands	Republican
Delaware		Delos Axtell*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	John T. Smith	Republican
	2nd	William A. Tripp*	Republican
Erie	1st	Anthony J. Boland*	Democrat
	2nd	Henry W. Hill*	Republican
	3rd	Anthony P. Barrett	Democrat
	4th	John C. Mohring*	Democrat
	5th	Henry Streifler*	Democrat
	6th	Michael J. Kane	Democrat
	7th	John K. Patton*	Republican
	8th	E. Freeman Baker*	Republican
Essex		Orlando Beede	Republican
Franklin		Thomas A. Sears*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Daniel Hays*	Republican
Genesee		John J. Ellis*	Republican
Greene		D. Geroe Green	Republican
Herkimer		Erwin E. Kelley	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Morgan Bryan	Republican
	2nd	Charles O. Roberts	Republican
Kings	1st	William L. Sandford	Republican
	2nd	John McKeown*	Democrat
	3rd	James J. McInerney	Democrat
	4th	Charles H. Cotton	Republican
	5th	Abram C. DeGraw*	Republican
	6th	Valentine J. Riedman	Democrat
	7th	Francis P. Gallagher*	Democrat
	8th	Thomas J. Farrell*	Democrat
	9th	John J. Cain*	Democrat
	10th	Edward L. Collier	Republican
	11th	Joseph A. Guider*	Democrat
	12th	Charles C. Schoeneck*	Democrat
	13th	George Siems	Democrat
	14th	August F. Schmid*	Democrat
	15th	Charles Juengst	Democrat
	16th	Edward C. Brennan*	Republican
	17th	Harris Wilson	Republican
	18th	Henry A. Ball	Democrat
	19th	Frederick Schmid*	Democrat
	20th	Joseph Wingenfeld	Democrat
	21st	Herman H. Torborg	Democrat
Lewis		Addison L. Clark*	Republican
Livingston		Otto Kelsey*	Republican
Madison		Robert J. Fish*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Merton E. Lewis	Republican
	2nd	Adolph J. Rodenbeck	Republican
	3rd	Richard Gardiner	Republican
	4th	Benjamin F. Gleason	Republican
Montgomery		Richard Murphy*	Republican
New York	1st	Daniel E. Finn*	Democrat	on November 7, 1899, elected to the Municipal Court
	2nd	James A. Rierdon	Democrat
	3rd	Michael T. Sharkey	Democrat
	4th	Patrick H. Roche*	Democrat
	5th	Nelson H. Henry	Republican
	6th	Timothy P. Sullivan*	Democrat
	7th	John F. Maher*	Democrat
	8th	Charles S. Adler*	Republican
	9th	N. Taylor Phillips*	Democrat
	10th	Julius Harburger*	Democrat
	11th	John J. O'Connor*	Democrat
	12th	Leon Sanders	Democrat
	13th	Patrick F. Trainor*	Democrat
	14th	Louis Meister	Democrat
	15th	James E. Smith	Democrat
	16th	Benjamin Hoffman*	Democrat
	17th	John F. Brennan*	Democrat
	18th	Charles P. Dillon*	Democrat
	19th	Robert Mazet	Republican
	20th	Cornelius F. Collins*	Democrat
	21st	Edward H. Fallows	Republican
	22nd	Joseph Baum	Democrat
	23rd	Thomas A. Mangin	Democrat
	24th	John B. Fitzgerald*	Democrat
	25th	Frederick A. Ware	Republican
	26th	John J. O'Connell	Democrat
	27th	Gherardi Davis	Republican
	28th	Joseph I. Green*	Democrat
	29th	Frank Bulkley	Republican
	30th	George W. Meyer, Jr.*	Democrat
	31st	Samuel S. Slater	Republican
	32nd	John Poth, Jr.	Democrat
	33rd	John J. Egan*	Democrat
	34th	Lyman W. Redington*	Democrat
	35th	George J. Grossman	Democrat
Niagara	1st	John T. Darrison	Republican
	2nd	Jay S. Rowe	Republican
Oneida	1st	William J. Sullivan	Democrat
	2nd	Louis M. Martin*	Republican
	3rd	John E. Mason*	Republican
Onondaga	1st	William G. Cottle*	Republican
	2nd	Edward G. Ten Eyck*	Republican
	3rd	Edward B. Sabine	Republican
	4th	John T. Delaney*	Republican
Ontario		Jean L. Burnett	Republican
Orange	1st	James G. Graham	Republican
	2nd	Louis Bedell	Republican
Orleans		Dennis W. Evarts*	Republican
Oswego	1st	Thomas D. Lewis	Republican
	2nd	Thomas M. Costello*	Republican
Otsego		Leland M. Cowles*	Republican
Putnam		Adrian H. Dean	Democrat
Queens	1st	Charles C. Wissel	Democrat
	2nd	Cyrus B. Gale*	Democrat
	3rd	George W. Doughty	Republican
Rensselaer	1st	Benjamin O. Brewster*	Republican
	2nd	William Hutton, Jr.*	Democrat
	3rd	Michael Russell*	Republican
Richmond		Charles J. Kullman*	Democrat
Rockland		Irving Brown*	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	Ira C. Miles*	Republican
	2nd	Benjamin A. Babcock	Republican
Saratoga		George H. West	Republican
Schenectady		Andrew J. McMillan	Republican
Schoharie		George M. Palmer*	Democrat	Minority Leader
Schuyler		Charles A. Sloane*	Republican
Seneca		Moses C. Gould	Democrat
Steuben	1st	Edward D. Cross*	Republican
	2nd	Hyatt C. Hatch*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	Joseph N. Hallock	Republican
	2nd	Regis H. Post	Republican
Sullivan		Clarence A. Sprague	Republican
Tioga		Daniel P. Witter*	Republican
Tompkins		Theron Johnson*	Republican
Ulster	1st	Robert A. Snyder	Republican
	2nd	Solomon P. Thorn	Republican
Warren		Charles H. Hitchcock	Republican
Washington		Charles R. Paris*	Republican
Wayne		Marvin I. Greenwood*	Republican
Westchester	1st	John J. Sloane	Democrat
	2nd	William Henderson, Jr.	Democrat
	3rd	James K. Apgar	Republican
Wyoming		Daniel P. Whipple*	Republican
Yates		Edward M. Sawyer	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Archie E. Baxter
• Assistant Clerk; Ray B. Smith^[1]
• Sergeant-at-Arms: James C. Crawford
• Doorkeeper: Frank W. Johnston
• First Assistant Doorkeeper: William H. Craig
• Second Assistant Doorkeeper: Charles R. Hotaling
• Stenographer: Henry C. Lammert

Notes

1. Murlin, Edgar L. (1899). The New York Red Book. Albany: James B. Lyon. p. 722.

Sources

• Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 340f for assemblymen; and 364 for senators)
• THE NEW LEGISLATURE in NYT on November 9, 1898
• THE NEXT LEGISLATURE; Revised Returns... in NYT on November 10, 1898
• CAUCUSES OF LEGISLATORS in NYT on January 4, 1899
• WORK OF THE ASSEMBLY in NYT on January 5, 1899