New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-26
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
DEMOCRATIC REAPPoRTroNMENT.


THE STATE TO BE GERRYMANDERED so THAT THE
| DEMOCRATS CAN CARRY NINETEEN OF THE
| TmRTY-FoUR DIsTMcTs-THE BILL THAT IS TO
BE PRESENTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUsE.l
| Albany JAN 25-The intention OF the Demo-
Gratis to gerrymander the Congressional districts OF
the State was plainly revealed IN the Assembly APP
| portionment Committee this afternoon. Mr.
| Dewitt submitted scheme for reapportlon-
ing tho districts by which the Democratic
| leaders hope to carry nineteen OUT
of the thirty-four districts. The Demo-
| cratic cities of New-York, Brooklyn and
| Buffalo are each given an additional member, and
the Congressional districts of the interior are 80
| manipulated as to give the Democratic party an
opportunity to carry several districts which are now
| Republican. Moreover, several counties that are
| overwhelmingly Republican are linked together In
order TO permit the Democratic party to carry some
districts that are now doubtful. The most glazing
instance of this massing together OF the Bepub-
lcans is the uniting of the counties of Jefferson
and St Lawrence in one Congressional District. In
that district the Republican candidate for Congress
man at the next election cannot have less than
| 10000 majority. This combination, however,
enables the Democratic leaders to throw the DEM
| ocratic county Of LOWS into the present Oneida
district thus making that district securely DEM
Ocratic
The districts In the city of New-York have not
yet been outlined owing to the illness of Assembly,
man McEroy to whom intrused this work.
His instructions to up the city into dis
| tricts that will each have large Democratic ma
| jority This ingenious scheme can only be ac-
complished by, as it were, dragging into New-fork
County the Democratic counties of Richmond ana
Westchester Whenever Congressional elections
tba
a part of the city of New-York. The Richmond
County voters Will have to vote for Congressman
with the inhabitants OF New-York ty that live
about Castle Garden; and the voters OF West
chester County with those voters that live In the
northern wards of New-York
One Of the most remarkable features of the
proposed apportionment Is the division into two
pairs of the Democratic county of Steben. Each
part Is put with Republican county.
with the obvious intention Of destroying the peace
of mind of tho inhabitants on election-day. The
county OF CheInung is yet more strongly Demo-
cratic That county, in the end, may DO divided
instead of Steuben. 1t 10 the intention of the
Democratic leaders 10 carve out one strong Demo-
cratic district in that part of the State. Perhaps
Chemung may be used for that purpose. and then
portion of it be- cast into a Republican district to
render II uncertain.
The City of Brooklyn was found TO be in
tractable material. Carve the Democratic gerry
Wanderers mi ht. there still remained Republl-
district. consequence of the great number OF
Republican voters. This misfortune has been
rcmedied much as possible by putting about
all the Republican voters in district. thus leav
ing the other three districts indisputaDiy Demo
cratic. The City OF Buffalo was carried by the
Democratic candidate for Mayor fortnight ago
by 3 900 majority. This WAS sufficient hint for
the geIrymanderers hey have made Buffalo,
will he
Congressional District. AS for the towns OF Ere
County which happen to be Repu Dlican they have
Joined them To the Democratic county of Niagara.
The appOrtcnment bill is as follows: lst
DistriGt-9ailOlk and Queens lid dis Dis
second, Twenty fourth and Twenty-hfth Ward, Of
Brooklyn. aud the towns OF flatbush, tlatlands.
Grayesend. Ncw-LOts and New-Utrecht; lid DIS
trlct-Seventb Thirteenth, Nineteenth. Tween tieth,
Twenty first and lweny-thIrd Ward, of Brookl>n;
INth D.sinct-tirst. Second, Third, Fourth, Fuih,
Sixth, Tenth and Eleventh Wards OF Brooklyn; Vth
District-FOurtcenth Fifteenth sixteenth, Seven
toentn and Eighteenth Wards Of the city
oi BROOKLYN the Fltb. with, with, IXth. Xth.
the city OF New-iork <. aud the counties of West
chester aud tiohmond, not yet sub
divided; Ayth Dlstrct-kockland' Orange aud
sullivan; ANlth Dlsluct-Putnam, Dutchcss and
Columbia; XNIlth Di,trict-Ulster. Delaware
and Greene; AVlllth Distlict-Albany AlAth
DIstnct--Rcnssrlaer and Washington: AAth
District-Saratoea Fulton Montgomery. and
Schenectady; AAlst District Warren, Essex
Clinton aud Franklin MILD Distrct-St Law
Cayuga; AAlNth Dstuci-SchOharc, Otsego,
lirrkmor aud Ilaml'lOnj AAVih DBtrci-Onoh-
daga aud Madison: XVIII DIstTlct-Oneda and
LOWS; NAV ilth DiAtuct-Chenango. BfO0me.
IOgI Cortland and IompknS; AAFillth District
lhrmung. Schuyler. seneca. and part OF oieuOen
AAIAth DIbtTIct-latcs, Out4ItO, wayne anu
"A part ~ SteuDen; AAAth Di'tuct-hionI0e;
AAAlst DIstnCt-Oroans, Livingston, Gcncaeo
| and Wyoming; AAAlld Distr.ct-Allegany, Catta-
raugus and Chautauqua; AAAIIld District
Niagara, tho towns OF Enc County outside Of
Buiaio aud the lwcifih Ward OF Buffalo AAAtNth
Distuct-ihr city OF Buffalo with the exception Of
ii Iva m Warl