# 112th New York State Legislature

The 112th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 1 to May 16, 1889, during the fifth 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. The "United Labor" organization endorsed the Republican nominee for governor Warner Miller, but nominated own candidates for the other offices. The Prohibition Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated state tickets.

## Elections

The 1888 New York state election was held on November 6. Gov. David B. Hill and Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones (both Dem.) were re-elected. The only other statewide elective office up for election was also carried by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for governor, was: Democrats 650,000; Republicans/United Labor 631,000; Prohibition 30,000; and Socialist Labor 3,500.

## Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 1, 1889; and adjourned on May 16.
Fremont Cole (R) was re-elected Speaker with 76 votes against 47 for William F. Sheehan (D).
Jacob Sloat Fassett (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.
On January 18, a grand jury in Albany refused to indict Assemblyman Charles Smith for perjury. The New York City Reform Club had accused Smith of having obtained his election by buying votes.

## 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.
| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
| 1st | Simeon S. Hawkins* | Republican | |
| 2nd | James F. Pierce* | Democrat | |
| 3rd | Eugene F. O'Connor* | Republican | |
| 4th | Jacob Worth* | Republican | |
| 5th | Michael C. Murphy* | Democrat | |
| 6th | Thomas F. Grady | Democrat | elected on December 28, 1888, to fill vacancy, in place of Edward F. Reilly |
| 7th | George F. Langbein* | Democrat | |
| 8th | Cornelius Van Cott* | Republican | seat vacated on May 1, upon taking office as Postmaster of New York City |
| 9th | Charles A. Stadler* | Democrat | |
| 10th | Jacob A. Cantor* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
| 11th | Eugene S. Ives* | Democrat | |
| 12th | William H. Robertson* | Republican | |
| 13th | vacant | | Henry R. Low (R) died on December 1, 1888 |
| 13th | Peter Ward | Democrat | elected on January 29, 1889, to fill vacancy |
| 14th | John J. Linson* | Democrat | |
| 15th | Gilbert A. Deane* | Republican | |
| 16th | Michael F. Collins* | Democrat | |
| 17th | Henry Russell* | Republican | |
| 18th | John Foley* | Democrat | |
| 19th | Rowland C. Kellogg* | Republican | |
| 20th | George Z. Erwin* | Republican | |
| 21st | George B. Sloan* | Republican | |
| 22nd | Henry J. Coggeshall* | Republican | |
| 23rd | Frank B. Arnold* | Republican | |
| 24th | William Lewis* | Republican | |
| 25th | Francis Hendricks* | Republican | |
| 26th | William L. Sweet* | Republican | |
| 27th | J. Sloat Fassett* | Republican | elected President pro tempore |
| 28th | John Raines* | Republican | |
| 29th | Donald McNaughton* | Democrat | |
| 30th | Edward C. Walker* | Republican | |
| 31st | John Laughlin* | Republican | |
| 32nd | Commodore P. Vedder* | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: John S. Kenyon
* Sergeant-at-Arms: John W. Corning
* Doorkeeper: Charles V. Schram
* Assistant Doorkeeper: Hiram Van Tassel
* 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 | Jervis L. Miller | Democrat | |
| Albany | 2nd | Vreeland H. Youngman* | Republican | |
| Albany | 3rd | Galen R. Hitt | Democrat | |
| Albany | 4th | William Burton LeRoy | Republican | |
| Allegany | Allegany | Albert B. Cottrell* | Republican | |
| Broome | Broome | Alonzo D. Lewis* | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 1st | George N. West | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 2nd | James S. Whipple* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 1st | John E. Savery* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 2nd | Leander Fitts | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 1st | S. Frederick Nixon* | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 2nd | George E. Towne | Republican | |
| Chemung | Chemung | Robert P. Bush* | Democrat | |
| Chenango | Chenango | Edgar A. Pearsall | Republican | |
| Clinton | Clinton | Stephen Moffitt | Republican | |
| Columbia | Columbia | William Dinehart* | Republican | |
| Cortland | Cortland | Rufus T. Peck | Republican | |
| Delaware | Delaware | George O. Mead | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 1st | Willard H. Mase* | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 2nd | Johnston de Peyster | Republican | |
| Erie | 1st | William F. Sheehan* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
| Erie | 2nd | Matthias Endres* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 3rd | Leroy Andrus | Republican | |
| Erie | 4th | Henry H. Guenther* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 5th | Amos H. Baker | Republican | |
| Essex | Essex | Thomas J. Treadway | Republican | |
| Franklin | Franklin | William C. Stevens | Republican | |
| Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | Lewis Brownell* | Republican | |
| Genesee | Genesee | John M. McKenzie* | Republican | |
| Greene | Greene | Francis G. Walters | Republican | |
| Herkimer | Herkimer | DeWitt J. Mesick | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 1st | Henry J. Lane | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 2nd | Andrew C. Comstock* | Republican | |
| Kings | 1st | Robert H. Miley | Democrat | |
| Kings | 2nd | William H. McLaughlin* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 3rd | Peter K. McCann* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 4th | Henry F. Haggerty* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 5th | John Kelly | Democrat | |
| Kings | 6th | Patrick H. McCarren | Democrat | |
| Kings | 7th | Adam Schaaff | Democrat | |
| Kings | 8th | William Blanchfield | Democrat | |
| Kings | 9th | Frank Sperry | Republican | |
| Kings | 10th | John B. Longley* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 11th | Joseph Aspinall* | Republican | |
| Kings | 12th | James P. Graham | Democrat | |
| Lewis | Lewis | Hugh Hughes* | Republican | |
| Livingston | Livingston | Jotham Clark* | Republican | |
| Madison | Madison | Charles E. Maynard* | Republican | |
| Monroe | 1st | Judson F. Sheldon | Republican | |
| Monroe | 2nd | Joseph Bauer | Republican | |
| Monroe | 3rd | Edwin A. Loder | Republican | |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | W. Barlow Dunlap | Republican | |
| New York | 1st | Patrick H. Duffy | Democrat | |
| New York | 2nd | Timothy D. Sullivan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 3rd | Thomas Smith Jr.* | Democrat | |
| New York | 4th | Jeremiah Hayes* | Democrat | |
| New York | 5th | Dominick F. Mullaney | Democrat | |
| New York | 6th | Charles P. Blake | Democrat | |
| New York | 7th | Francis V. King | Republican | |
| New York | 8th | Charles Smith | Republican | |
| New York | 9th | John Martin* | Democrat | |
| New York | 10th | George F. Roesch* | Democrat | |
| New York | 11th | Robert Ray Hamilton* | Republican | |
| New York | 12th | Moses Dinkelspiel | Democrat | |
| New York | 13th | Frederick S. Gibbs | Republican | |
| New York | 14th | Thomas J. Creamer | Democrat | |
| New York | 15th | Frederick Haffner | Democrat | |
| New York | 16th | Edward P. Hagan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 17th | John Kerrigan | Democrat | |
| New York | 18th | William H. Newschafer | Democrat | |
| New York | 19th | John Connelly* | Democrat | |
| New York | 20th | William H. Hornidge* | Democrat | |
| New York | 21st | Ernest H. Crosby* | Republican | |
| New York | 22nd | Joseph Blumenthal* | Democrat | |
| New York | 23rd | Augustus Strassburg | Democrat | |
| New York | 24th | Christopher C. Clarke | Democrat | |
| Niagara | 1st | John F. Little | Republican | |
| Niagara | 2nd | J. Marville Harwood | Democrat | |
| Oneida | 1st | Joseph Harry Kent* | Democrat | |
| Oneida | 2nd | George G. McAdam* | Republican | |
| Oneida | 3rd | Abisha B. Baker | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 1st | James W. Upson | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 2nd | William H. Gallup* | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 3rd | Walter W. Cheney* | Republican | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Robert Moody* | Republican | |
| Orange | 1st | John C. Adams* | Republican | |
| Orange | 2nd | George W. Greene* | Democrat | |
| Orleans | Orleans | Ira Edwards* | Republican | |
| Oswego | 1st | S. Mortimer Coon* | Republican | |
| Oswego | 2nd | Danforth E. Ainsworth* | Republican | |
| Otsego | 1st | William E. Dante | Republican | |
| Otsego | 2nd | Walter L. Brown* | Republican | |
| Putnam | Putnam | Hamilton Fish II | Republican | |
| Queens | 1st | Solomon S. Townsend | Democrat | |
| Queens | 2nd | Philip T. Cronin | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 1st | George O'Neil* | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 2nd | Joseph S. Saunders | Republican | |
| Rensselaer | 3rd | James Ryan Jr.* | Democrat | |
| Richmond | Richmond | Hubbard R. Yetman | Democrat | |
| Rockland | Rockland | Frank P. Demarest* | Democrat | |
| St. Lawrence | 1st | N. Martin Curtis* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 2nd | William H. Kimball* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 3rd | Michael H. Flaherty* | Republican | |
| Saratoga | 1st | Harvey J. Donaldson* | Republican | |
| Saratoga | 2nd | George S. Batcheller | Republican | seat vacated on April 1, upon appointment as Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury |
| Schenectady | Schenectady | Austin A. Yates* | Republican | |
| Schoharie | Schoharie | J. Edward Young | Democrat | |
| Schuyler | Schuyler | Fremont Cole* | Republican | re-elected Speaker |
| Seneca | Seneca | William Harrison Dunham | Democrat | |
| Steuben | 1st | Charles H. McMaster | Republican | |
| Steuben | 2nd | Milo M. Acker* | Republican | |
| Suffolk | Suffolk | Henry E. Huntting* | Republican | |
| Sullivan | Sullivan | Martin A. Smith* | Republican | |
| Tioga | Tioga | Abram I. Decker | Republican | |
| Tompkins | Tompkins | Frank J. Enz* | Republican | |
| Ulster | 1st | George A. Davidson | Republican | |
| Ulster | 2nd | Jacob Rice | Democrat | |
| Ulster | 3rd | George H. Bush | Democrat | |
| Warren | Warren | Scott Barton | Republican | |
| Washington | 1st | Charles W. Larmon | Republican | |
| Washington | 2nd | William H. Tefft | Republican | |
| Wayne | 1st | Charles T. Saxton* | Republican | |
| Wayne | 2nd | Richard P. Groat | Republican | |
| Westchester | 1st | William Murray | Democrat | |
| Westchester | 2nd | Bradford Rhodes* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 3rd | James W. Husted* | Republican | |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | Greenleaf S. Van Gorder* | Republican | |
| Yates | Yates | William A. Carson | Republican | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
* Sergeant-at-Arms: Owel H. Willard
* Doorkeeper: Homer B. Webb
* First Assistant Doorkeeper: John R. Harlow
* Second Assistant Doorkeeper: W. B. Clark
* Stenographer: George H. Thornton