New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-30
AT The STATE Capital.
REAPPoRTIoNMENT AND POPULATION.

REINFORCEMENT AND POPULATION.
HOW THE DEMOCRATS HAVE DIsREGARDED THE
LAW IN GERRYMADERING THE STATE FOR PARTY
PURPOSES.
PROM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSEl
ALBANY, Jan. 29.--The Democratic scheme for
reapportioning the Congressional districts gains lus
tire with every examination as q specimen OF bold
gerrymandering Not only are counties violently
annexed TO Others in order to form Democratic DIS
tricts, but the Congressional law requiring that
there shall be an equality of population in tho
several districts is also disregarded. IDS
disregard of the law has the same object,
namely the formation of Democratic Congressional
districts with the ultimate purpose of carrying with
Democratic candidates for Congress nineteen out OF
the thirty-four districts. The popu alton of the
State il 5OS2, 9S2 and the law of Congress
authorizes thrty-fOur districts A division OF
the entire population into thirty four parts
shows that there should be 149499 persons IN each
Congressional district. In some districts under
the proposed apportionment the population is
slightly above and below 149,499; but
in majority of them the population is
either far in excess of this number or
far below it, In districts side by side there arc
most remarkable discrepancies.
1t can he perceived that in the great Democratic
cities of New-York, Brooklyn, Albany and
Buffalo as many Congressional districts as
possible have been carved out Nine COngressio nal
districts have been interviewer in the counties of
New York, Richmond and Westehester. They form,
az it WERE one gigantic Congressional district with
nine Representatives The total population OF these
counties is 1,354.55S. which. divided into nine
1arts gives 100 500 the legal number of persons
TO be put in each district 1t is in the country dis
tricts that the most astounding dIscTe ancy be-
tween the population that according to law shou
inhabit district and that masSed by the A, P9r-
tionment Committee can be observed. Thus while
in the XVIII District, cOnDO5ed OF the counties or
Onondaga and Madison, there will be 10000 per-
sons or II 900 persons in excess OF the legal
limit in the XXIVth District, composed of the
counties of SchohaTie. Otsego, Herkimer and liam
iItOn. there will be only 1885, or over l6OOO
The discrepancies can be best perceived in
tabulated statement of the ponula'ion o.
each Of the proposed districts cts ne county my
der the proposed appOr ionment, but the proportion
OF population IN each of the two dis Tcts has not
yet been determined. In the table gwen below OF
has ZEN evenly divided between tue two COngres-
sioual districts that are TO include a part OF the
county within their limits.
Population.
lat District Suffolk and Queens Counties 14i,473
lid Dlstric-The Eighth. Ninth, Twelfth. TEen
ty-secoud, Twenty fourth AMI Invent, fifth
Ward OF Brooklyn and the I'VE towns Of
lid DistTct2Thc seventh. Jhiitcenii. Nine
tecntn. Twentieth, Twenty-drst aud Tw MT 1900,
WITH Dstricf-Tbe FRS Second. Third. Fourth
Fiih. sixth, Tent aud Eleventh Wards Of -
IGl, SjS
VIII Di.trict-Tbe 4. urtren b, Fifteenth. Six
tccntn. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards OF
l4o'''f
The With With With, TX d, X h. XIth, XItb,
XlIIih and XVIII Districts are comprised IN the
counties OF New-York Richmond and Nrstchester
These have not been snbpiyiled. Total population,
1854, 55s average 10 dis ret $50 SOC.
XVIII Dstrlct-Rockland. Orange and sullivan 49,
Counties. lfo,oof
XVIII District Putnam, Duchess and Column
Cd ilff 1929
XVIIth Detrict-Albany County ............. 155,054
Counties. Co.. 1863, 214
aud schenectady Counties ...~.......,.... 146,o34
franklin Counties Iio 9s5
Counties 1872 Oo9
XXllId Disict-OswegO ana Cayuga Counties. l46,7S9
aad Hamilton Counties. -. 1926
t,..'............ - ... 10000
XVIII District-Lews und Oneida Counties. 142J9S
NNNIIth DistIict-Cl enaDgO, BrOOme, Core
land. Iompkns aud TiOg5, Counties ......... 152222
XNNIlItu Dt trict-Chemung, Schuy Ter. Seneca
ana part OF stouOen County 129076
XXIXth Distrct-Nayne, OutIrlO, Yates and
pant o. StcuDen county. 1GO953
XNXth DIstrct-Mou zoe CUutv............... 1892
ins aud oroans Counties. 1893
XXXIId District-Anegany, Cattauragls and
Chautauqua Counties. ............. 1921
XNNIifd Dstg1Ct-NlaSara County. the toWuB
Buffalo 1237s7
XXAISta Distr.ct-Inc city OF Is falo. with
tue exec plon OF The Twelfth ward........... 1850