New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29
ALBANY.
APPoRTIoNMENT REPORT.

THE TWO REPORTS
IFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TEIBUNE'l
ALBANY, April 2S.-TO-day Senator Wo0dln
and Judge HogebOOm heads of their respective Com
ittees on Apportionment reported the bill redsrictng
the state into Senate districts and reapporonng repre-
sentaton the Assembly among the various counties OF
the State These committees appointed In January
IN perform probably most important duty of the
sion They have delayed their decision more than three
months and by their scheme before the Legislature
ON the fourth legislative day before that fixed for hnai
adjournment whether they hope to crowd through In the
closing hours of the session measure that might fail II
presented at the proper time, whether as is more
probable MI Woodin and Judge HOgeboom have had no
intention Of allowing bill to pass that would have 10
20 under the scrutiny Of Democratic Governor, is an
open question.
II the latter superstition is the moro general, Mr.
Woodin and Judge Hogeboom only lay the blame to
their own delay and seemingly purposed inactlOn. AS
has been already announced, NewYoyk Will have six
Senators instead Of FIVE and "a Assembymen Instead OF
81 II this bill becomes law Kings County receives
three Senators in place Of two, and IL Assembymen Ill
place of o. Twelve Senatorial Districts remain I'M
changed except in numbers and three OF these the ls
XXXIst and XXXIId retain their old numbers. The
IXth, Xth. XIh, XIth, XIIIth and XVIII are changed
to the XIth XIIth, XIIIth. XIyth XVIII and XVIlth,
respectively as Districts created in New
York and Brooklyn. The XvIth District becomes the
XIXth the XIXth. the XXlst and the NANlllth tDe
XXIXth. schoharie County is taken from the XXlIld
District and added to the XVIII, making 1t Greene
scAoharie and Ulster Lewis County is taken from the
XVIIIth and added to the new XIXth making II ST.
Lawrence Franklin and Lewis Delaware is taken from
the XXIIId, and added to the new XXth, making II
Herkimer Otsego and Delaware. The new NAlld DIS
trict is made up of Jefferson and Oswego; the new
XXIIId of Onondaga, instead of OnondaSa and Cort-
landt: the new XXIyth is made up from the old
XXIVth XXIIId, and XXIst being BroOme, Chenango
Is
Woodins district making Cayuga, Seneca. and wayne
and continues its number The XVIII is made up OF
Chemung, Cortland. Tioga, and TompklnSi the
XXYIIth Of steuben and Alegany; the XXVlllth OF
Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, and Yates, and the
XXXth of Geuesee, Niagara, Orleans and wyoming.
To any familiar with the political geography OF the
state, these combinations need no explanation The
marty that happens to get control of the mapmakng OF
the state every years does not usually devote Itself
to making up districts TO suit its opponents II is in the
New-York and Brooklyn Senatorial districts that the
chief ingenuity seems have expended itself The re-
suit in the former does Mr. John Davenport credit
and no less the committee which accepted his designs
MI Davenport laid out three gasshopper Senatorial
districts in NewYOrk City, one Of which must be IL
miles long and 22 miles wide 1t is needless to say That
two of them intended to he steady Republican dis
trlcts The Republican majority in Senator Booths dis
trct is increased that the scheme coniempates an
eoual division of the six Senatorial districts between the
two parties The numbers OF the NewIork districts are
necessarily advanced each to make room Tor the Add
ton of district TO Brooklyn Tho With District answering
TO the present WITH is made to begin at honstont ana
the North River Its boundaries run along Houstonst
TO yarick along varick Canal; Canal 10 Broadway;
Broadway to Houston; Houston TO the Bowery, and
down the Bowery to Rivngton-st; along Rivingon to
Norfolk: along Norfolk Division; along Division TO
Grand and along Grand to the East River The addition
TO this district is Of six election districts OF tAe YIN
Assembly District and parts OF five other election dis
trics OF the same Assembly district. which are strongly
Democratic.
The boundaries OF the With Senatorial District Senator
Booths present district remain unchanged, on the
north beginning at Twenty-siN-st and the East
River and running sIxthave. Instead Of going down
sxth-ave 10 Fourteenhst the line stops at Twenty
frstst and goes east to GramercyPark goes south one
block Third-aye and along Twcutiethht To second
ave, and thence 10 Fourteenth II.
The remaining boundaries are the new lines made on
the upper side the WITH District The additions Ia this
isrict consist Of the strong Republican districts IN the
XIth and XVIII Assembly Districts These are the lst,
Id IIa and WITH Election Districts Of the former, and
XVIItb XXIIId XXIyth. and XXytb Of the latter, and
the western half Of the XVIII Election District OF the
same The region added substantially embraced IN the
triangle between Union Gramercy and stuyvesani-
squares
The new With Senate District comprises the Eleventh
Thirteenth and Seventeenth Wards Its boundary line be
gins at Grands the East River runs east on GrahdH
along DNlslOnnt To d"hb
Norfolk to Ryington, along Ryingon TO the Bowery,
along the Bowery 20 Fouriecnth-st, and along Four
feminist straight 10 the East River; and this VIII Doa
strong Democratic district, and will be more German
than ever The loss OF the Nth Assembly District u
strong Democratic district which Is transferred To the
lower Senatorial district Il made good by the ADDITION OF
the Thirteenth Ward as the With Assembly District The
incubation remains about the Though the district
is likely TO he absolutely Democratic Republican As
sembly district De made out Of part Of the western
segment
The new With IXth and Xth Districts are evidently
the especial achievements Of Mr.. Davenport Inc
boundary line Of the With District begins at the foot Of
Fourteentnst and the East River, west TO Second
ave- north to SOutl-st along Scuth-st. to Thrdave..
which il follows for more than five miles to one
hundred ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; follows Onc-hundred-
and-twenty sevcnth-st TO FOurthaye, and f0urhaNo.
TO the Harlem River IL also includes BackwclFs, Wards
and Randals Islands. This district includes the river
election districts lying east Of Thrdave In the HVlth'
XVIIth, XXth, and XXIs Assembly Distrcts' ana VIII
necessarily DO strongly Democratic.
The IXth Senatorial District is constructed out OF the
XIth Assembly District and the Demonstrations re-
gions of the XVIth XyIIh XVlIltb, XXth, and HHlst
Assembly Districts 1t intended apparently TO DC AZ
strong Republican district as 1t was supposed the Con
gressona District would be, which covers something OF
the same ground and has become 40 well known rs the
"Grasshopper District" The boundary line begins on
the corner Of Twenty rsst and Thirdaye, runs west
to sxth.ave, by Sxth-aye to Twenty-slxth-st, along
Twenty-sxth-st to Nnth-ave., by Ninhaye to Thrly-
fth-st, By which the line runs east to EighhaVe by
Eghthaye. TO Forty seconds, and then pack 10 Nhlh
aye-th dcour being evidently made to avoid including
several blocks OF tenement houses &c.by Nnthave TO
Fnty1fth-st., along which the line runs to SlxhIve
thence Central Park again. to avoid small un-Repub
can locality across the Central Park tho line follows
tho line of Sxaye up to the end Of the Park where IL
west to Observation-Disclosures; thence along
thence