The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-28


This deducted from tho total leaves representa-
tive population of4 649 which divided, into thirty
two parts gives 1876 bS2 rs the number OF population
to each State Senator. Tho constitution requires
regard 70 Senate districts that the Legislature shall
20 alter the first acr the return OF tho
enumeration that each senate district shall contain as
nearly ~ may be an equal number OF Inhabitants,
excluding aliens and persons of color not taxed and
shall remain unatcrcd until the return Of another
enumeration, and shall ~ all times consist OF contgu
Gus territory and mo- county shall be divided In tho
formation Of senate district except such county shall
be equtably entitled 10 two or more Senator'S
Now York county, In 1865, when the present appor-
tonment made, had 564. 54s representative popu-
lation She has now 90939 reported BY the Sccrc
tary OF State Ne YORK Is entitled TO twenty six
members or Assembly. and has q, 504 fractional
cess that H. dividing 12S into the whole representative
population requires a. las for each member, but, CIV
The fractional excess being over one hail. For
liks division OF Senators, the appor-
tonment the Secretary Of State makes
six ull ratios, with OF S9. S93 but she gets
NO credit tor the excess Brooklyn has an excess OF
$4,000 and this united surplus Of the two counties
will 90 unreprescnted under the superintendent made
BY this republican Legislature The Governor will DO
likely 10 reject the report
dation the Court Of General Sessions was passed
Also the bill to allow the District Court Judges to APP
point their marshall This bill was quietly slipped
through without arousing any attention, though u
plays havoc with quite number Of democratic Office
holders and substitutes republicans IN their places
BRooKLyS BRIDERy CHARaEs.
Al the meeting oil the Assembly Committee on Privi-
legrs and EIectons on Wednesday W. J. G. Meighau,
the HERALD corrcspondcns IN contradiction OF The
the effect that lac (Watts) was not In tho House
when the motion was made 20 take from tho
table n, motion t sS vote
that when the motion was made he and
Mr. Watts were on the floor Of the House convcrsa
about the Scavcnscr BILL in which Mr. Watts was
Interested he further testified that on nsccrtaining
the motion made concerned the Ogden charter he
exclaimed n Watts hearing, after looking a. the es
Mr. Calvin, near whom no was sitting nj tho time.
.sHcrc's the Brooklyn charter" that Watts asked
hurriediy
ssIIs the Brooklyn charter defeated some time ago !"
that Watts remarked
'what arc they going to do with ~" and the wit
.Its tho Brooklyn charter and they're going try
10 reconsider the vote by which the bill lost
words 10 that effect These remarks he testified were
intcrchangcd hurrcdIy, the witness, nndng out
what tho bill was lett the part OF the House where he
then was and hurried 20 tho Clerks desk 10 get tally
list What became OF Mr.. Watts after he left HIM Of
course he could not say.
Mr. Watts, strange 10 shy, docs not remember that
any such conversation took place between h'm and tho
correspondent az the time described; but ''deiectivc
memory has been tho ailmcnt oil most Of
those persons thus far examined who are alleged to
have been connected directly indirectly with
the defeat OF the bill As he testified last Wednesday
before tho committee that he was not IN the House
when the FIRST motion on the bill was made, II
would not do for him 10 ADMIT, without contradicting
himself that he was on the floor convcrsing with any
body at tho time.
COMMEMORATIVE EVIDENCE
Of the correspondents testimony next Friday AMER
noon, which time the committee adjourned, may
fresh Mr. Watts recollection even " u does not make
him regret that he testified us he did on Wednesday
The committee have decided not 10 ask the corre-
spondcnts yet 10 DO examined tho sources OF their In
formation 10 the alleged bribery OF the nyc members
knowing doubtless that tho correspondents would abso
lutcy 20 divugc the OF their Informants
THE APrORrfoxnEST
Tomorrow Senator Wood will Introduce the APP
port,onment bill The senate districts arc fo
lows:-
Sscvnd Dsfrict-First, Second, Fifth Sixth, Eighth,
Ninth. Tenth ana Twelfth wards Of Brooklyn and tho
county towns OF Kings county.
Third District THIRD Fourth, Seventh. Eleventh,
Twentieth, Twenty first, Twenty sccond Twenty third
Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth wards ~ brooklyn.
Fourth DisfrcL Thirteenth. Fourteenth, Fifteenth
Sixteenth Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth
wards Of brooklyn.
The Fifth, Skin. Seventh, Eighth Ninth and Tenth
districts lie In New York city and are composed as
folows:-The Fiish district First, second, Third,
Fourth, Fifth, sixth seventh, Tenth and Fourteenth
wards; so much Of the Eighth ward as Hes between
Canal vack and West Houston streets, and the North
or Hudson River.
The sixth district consists OF the NINTH Fifteenth
and Sixteenth wards, much OF she Eighth ward AZ
Hes between Canal varck and West Houston streets and
Broadway, and much OF the Eighteenth ward ~ lies
between Sixth avenue Twenty street. Third ave