# 110th New York State Legislature

The 110th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to May 26, 1887, during the third year of David B. Hill's governorship, in Albany.

## 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, 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 three Democratic factions (Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats") re-united, and nominated joint candidates in most districts. The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.

## Elections

The 1886 New York state election was held on November 2. The only statewide elective offices up for election was carried by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Judge of the Court of Appeals, was: Democrats 468,000; Republicans 461,000; Prohibition 36,000; and Greenback 2,000.

## Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1887; and adjourned on May 26.
James W. Husted (R) was re-elected Speaker.
On January 20, the Legislature elected Frank Hiscock (R) to succeed Warner Miller (R) as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1887.

## 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. Modern-day Nassau County was part of Queens County, and modern-day Bronx County was divided between New York County west of the Bronx River and Westchester County east of it.

### Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.
| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
| 1st | Edward F. Fagan* | Democrat | |
| 2nd | James F. Pierce* | Democrat | |
| 3rd | Stephen M. Griswold* | Republican | |
| 4th | Jacob Worth* | Republican | |
| 5th | Michael C. Murphy* | Democrat | |
| 6th | Edward F. Reilly* | Democrat | |
| 7th | James Daly* | Democrat | |
| 8th | Thomas C. Dunham* | Democrat | |
| 9th | John J. Cullen* | Democrat | |
| 10th | William C. Traphagen* | Democrat | |
| 11th | George W. Plunkitt* | Democrat | |
| 12th | Henry C. Nelson* | Democrat | |
| 13th | Henry R. Low* | Republican | |
| 14th | Henry C. Connelly* | Republican | |
| 15th | Jacob W. Hoysradt* | Republican | |
| 16th | Albert C. Comstock* | Republican | |
| 17th | Amasa J. Parker Jr.* | Democrat | |
| 18th | Edward Wemple* | Democrat | on November 8, 1887, elected New York State Comptroller |
| 19th | Rowland C. Kellogg* | Republican | |
| 20th | Charles L. Knapp* | Republican | |
| 21st | George B. Sloan* | Republican | |
| 22nd | Henry J. Coggeshall* | Republican | |
| 23rd | John E. Smith* | Republican | |
| 24th | Matthew W. Marvin* | Republican | |
| 25th | Francis Hendricks* | Republican | |
| 26th | Charles F. Barager* | Republican | |
| 27th | J. Sloat Fassett* | Republican | |
| 28th | John Raines* | Republican | |
| 29th | Edmund L. Pitts* | Republican | President pro tempore |
| 30th | Edward C. Walker* | Republican | |
| 31st | Daniel H. McMillan* | Republican | |
| 32nd | Commodore P. Vedder* | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: John W. Vrooman
* Assistant Clerk: John S. Kenyon
* Sergeant-at-Arms: James C. Murray
* Doorkeeper: John H. Houck
* Stenographer: Harris A. Corell

## State Assembly
### Assemblymen

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.
| District | District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes |
| Albany | 1st | Horace T. Devereux | Democrat | |
| Albany | 2nd | Vreeland H. Youngman | Republican | |
| Albany | 3rd | William J. Hill | Democrat | |
| Albany | 4th | John T. Gorman | Democrat | |
| Allegany | Allegany | Washington Moses | Republican | |
| Broome | Broome | Isaac C. Edson* | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 1st | Frederick W. Kruse* | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 2nd | Erastus S. Ingersoll* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 1st | Frank M. Parsons* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 2nd | Coral C. White | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 1st | Dana P. Horton | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 2nd | George H. Frost | Republican | |
| Chemung | Chemung | Robert P. Bush* | Democrat | |
| Chenango | Chenango | Ralph Taylor | Republican | |
| Clinton | Clinton | George S. Weed | Democrat | |
| Columbia | Columbia | John C. Hogeboom* | Republican | |
| Cortland | Cortland | Wayland D. Tisdale | Republican | |
| Delaware | Delaware | David L. Thomson | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 1st | Willard H. Mase | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 2nd | John I. Platt* | Republican | |
| Erie | 1st | William F. Sheehan* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
| Erie | 2nd | Frank M. Giese* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 3rd | Edward Gallagher* | Republican | |
| Erie | 4th | Henry H. Guenther | Democrat | |
| Erie | 5th | Edward K. Emery | Republican | |
| Essex | Essex | Spencer G. Prime | Republican | |
| Franklin | Franklin | Floyd J. Hadley* | Republican | |
| Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Alden W. Berry* | Republican | |
| Genesee | Genesee | Charles A. Seaver* | Republican | |
| Greene | Greene | Francis G. Walters | Republican | |
| Herkimer | Herkimer | Patrick H. McEvoy | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 1st | Anson S. Thompson | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 2nd | Edward B. Bulkley* | Republican | |
| Kings | 1st | Moses J. Wafer* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 2nd | William H. McLaughlin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 3rd | Peter K. McCann* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 4th | Henry F. Haggerty* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 5th | James A. McMahon* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 6th | Thomas F. Farrell* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 7th | John Reitz | Republican | |
| Kings | 8th | John H. Bonnington | Democrat | |
| Kings | 9th | Alexander S. Bacon | Republican | |
| Kings | 10th | John B. Longley* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 11th | James P. Graham | Democrat | |
| Kings | 12th | Richard V. B. Newton* | Democrat | |
| Lewis | Lewis | Rutson Rea* | Republican | |
| Livingston | Livingston | William Y. Robinson* | Republican | |
| Madison | Madison | William S. Leete* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 1st | Fletcher A. Defendorf | Democrat | |
| Monroe | 2nd | Edward W. Maurer | Republican | |
| Monroe | 3rd | George W. Sime* | Republican | |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | Robert Wemple | Democrat | |
| New York | 1st | Daniel E. Finn* | Democrat | |
| New York | 2nd | Timothy D. Sullivan | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 3rd | James E. Power* | Democrat | |
| New York | 4th | Jeremiah Hayes* | Democrat | |
| New York | 5th | Michael Brennan* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 6th | William J. McKenna | Democrat | |
| New York | 7th | George H. Henry | Republican | |
| New York | 8th | Charles Smith* | Republican | |
| New York | 9th | John Martin | Democrat | |
| New York | 10th | George F. Langbein | Democrat | |
| New York | 11th | Robert Ray Hamilton* | Republican | |
| New York | 12th | Leonard A. Giegerich | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 13th | William P. Mulry | Democrat | |
| New York | 14th | Jacob Kunzenman | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 15th | George H. McAdam | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 16th | Edward P. Hagan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 17th | William Dalton* | Democrat | |
| New York | 18th | John F. Kenny | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 19th | Eugene S. Ives | Democrat | |
| New York | 20th | William H. Hornidge | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 21st | Ernest H. Crosby | Republican | |
| New York | 22nd | John F. McIntyre | Democrat | |
| New York | 23rd | Jacob A. Cantor* | Democrat | |
| New York | 24th | John B. Shea* | County Dem. | |
| Niagara | 1st | Christian F. Goerss | Republican | |
| Niagara | 2nd | Peter A. Porter* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 1st | Benjamin Hall* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 2nd | Robert W. Evans* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 3rd | John C. Davies | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 1st | Hector B. Johnson | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 2nd | Alfred E. Stacey* | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 3rd | Thomas McCarthy* | Republican | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Edward P. Babcock* | Republican | |
| Orange | 1st | Robert H. Smith* | Republican | |
| Orange | 2nd | George W. Greene* | Democrat | |
| Orleans | Orleans | Samuel A. Bates* | Republican | |
| Oswego | 1st | Henry C. Howe* | Republican | |
| Oswego | 2nd | Danforth E. Ainsworth* | Republican | |
| Otsego | 1st | Lowell S. Henry* | Democrat | |
| Otsego | 2nd | Frank B. Arnold* | Republican | |
| Putnam | Putnam | Henry Mabie* | Republican | |
| Queens | 1st | Joseph Fitch* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 2nd | William J. Hines | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 1st | Michael F. Collins* | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 2nd | J. Irving Baucus | Republican | |
| Rensselaer | 3rd | James Ryan Jr. | Democrat | |
| Richmond | Richmond | Edward A. Moore | Democrat | |
| Rockland | Rockland | George Dickey* | Democrat | |
| St. Lawrence | 1st | N. Martin Curtis* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 2nd | William H. Kimball | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 3rd | George Z. Erwin* | Republican | |
| Saratoga | 1st | John H. Burke | Democrat | |
| Saratoga | 2nd | Bartlett B. Grippin | Republican | |
| Schenectady | Schenectady | Edward D. Cutler* | Democrat | |
| Schoharie | Schoharie | Emory Stevens | Democrat | |
| Schuyler | Schuyler | Fremont Cole* | Republican | |
| Seneca | Seneca | William L. Sweet | Republican | |
| Steuben | 1st | Azariah C. Brundage | Republican | |
| Steuben | 2nd | Charles D. Baker* | Republican | |
| Suffolk | Suffolk | Henry A. Reeves | Democrat | |
| Sullivan | Sullivan | Martin A. Smith | Republican | |
| Tioga | Tioga | Jonathan C. Latimer | Republican | |
| Tompkins | Tompkins | Walter G. Smith | Republican | |
| Ulster | 1st | Thomas Maxwell | Republican | |
| Ulster | 2nd | Willet I. Van Demark | Republican | |
| Ulster | 3rd | Davis Winne | Democrat | |
| Warren | Warren | James C. Eldridge | Republican | |
| Washington | 1st | J. Warren Fort | Republican | |
| Washington | 2nd | James H. Manville* | Republican | |
| Wayne | 1st | Charles T. Saxton | Republican | |
| Wayne | 2nd | Barnet H. Davis* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 1st | J. Irving Burns | Republican | |
| Westchester | 2nd | Samuel Conover | Democrat | |
| Westchester | 3rd | James W. Husted* | Republican | elected Speaker |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | Edward A. Pierce* | Republican | |
| Yates | Yates | George R. Cornwell | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
* Sergeant-at-Arms: Isaac Scott
* Doorkeeper: Michael Maher
* Stenographer: Emory P. Close