The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-17
NEW CONGRESS DISTRICTS.
THE PROPOSED REAPPORTTONMEHT
Under THE FEDERAL CENSUS.

staten Island. asa westehester Tea Cos.
ere..men-The Ds.scrntis Leaders DE-
eide 10 Push the Bm 70 Esuaiixe the Reg.
,.,ra,ion OF Voters Throughout the State
An Interesting wessu Storage Bin
introduced BY the Staten Island Assem-
,ymau-Comptroiier Myers's Objections
IN The Huckieberry Railroad Bii.
hB.yr, March 16.-Gov Flowers Congress
Innortiop mont bill was introduced in the SEN
At, and the Assembly this morning. Chair
man Bush OF the Committee on Ways and
Means introduced the bill in the Assembly.
and Senator Cantor. Chairman OF the Commit
too on Finance. in the Senate. The State Is
divided into thirty -four districts. the same
number in the aggregate as at pre- sent Six
teen OF these districts are below Peekskill and
eighteen are above. Almost all the districts
are changed. tho changes being made neces-
snry by tho increase OF the population OF New
York. Brooklyn. Buffalo. and Rochester. Sta
ion Island is taken from the Long Island dis
triet and added to New York. making the Long
Island district debatable. One OF tho Brook
lyn districts is Republican and another is close.
New York city. with Staten Island and Vest
chester county, has ten districts. all OF tho dis
tr,cts safely Democratic Tho downtown dis.
tricts a, Q left much as thoy are now. The now
Eighth Ninth. Eleventh. and Twelfth districts.
are unchanged. except as to their numbers.
They retain the Same territory. The gain Is
up town entirely. Tho district now represent
ed by Mr.. Fitch is divided 80 that the present
Nineteenth Assembly district west side) Is al
most an entire Congress district by itself. and
the present Twenty-third district tHnrlem) Is
almost IN entire new district. Each OF these
Assembly districts has now 10000 qualified
voters. almost enough to entitle each to Con-
gresham.
North of Peeksk almost every district Is
changed in order to give the great cities the
re-, resentation to WEIGH they are entitled by
their increase in population. The Albany dis
trict is retained. and Buffalo and Niagara have
two Congressman rs at present. Tho new
Twsnty-nrst is n normally Democratic dis
tri,t and the Seventeenth and Nineteenth are
debatablo districts. With big Democratic
plurality like last fall the Democrats can also
carry the two Buffalo districts. though neither
OF them in an ordinary year is safely Demo-
cratic
The Eighteenth. Twenty second. Twenty
third Twenty fourth. Twenty-iifth. Twenty
sixth. Twenty seventh. Twenty eighth. Twen-
ty-ninth. Thirtieth, Thirty-hrst. and Thirty
fourth districts will require Il political up
heaval to give them to the Democrats. Tho
districts in detail are:
Era. pst.e;nThe s"nn,,r. Of Suffolk and 2Sees'
seventh Eleventh. and Twentieth wards OF the city Of
re 1H,s % Ii. Twenty cT
fonrh District, Twelfth Eighth twenty ny ta;qr'h
BTo"siyn. together with the town. Of New Utrecht
fittH pistr,c.-The Eighteenth. Nineteenth Twenty
nrst Twenty seventh. and rwenty.eyhth wards OF the
sixth h.,riSt The Thirteenth roar,ssn,h Fifteenth
seventh county Of Richmond; .ossshs.
:. ssssSs Fs. is ns
With bis'risi,1 Tho Fourth sixth and Eighth Assem-.
BY ] nf SS IT, and
Ss q rS SsM and Four
eenth Assembly districts Of the county Of New York.
n.Sy
ihs ne Gentle TT 'e os
s sse1 Ior 1nd the G Q,
ny district Leloy the centre of street. in
fi ft ps,rs,-rh.. portion of the rwen,yr.s
assembly a..Iss y, hs centre
lion Of the IwsntysecoId district above The centre
T~en'y,hrd Assembly district Of the county OF New
@ Of nd me
seventeenth Di..rict-rhs counties of Rockland. Or
'1Es and sSy D,;rct-rp. eoun.. o, Putnam
pnIsh.ss ana Ulster. '0u"'''' u PUTNAM
.Sneteenth Distrlct-rhs counties of Columbia and
Txen.ie;h Di.,rc..Tns county Of Albany; s.,.
hare 9sego and "a
rwenty.thiTd District : The counties of Clinton
twenty fourth bstrct-The counties of oswego JEFF
twenty H MIN Ds.rc.-rhecoun.ie, of oned. and Her
timer.
Twenty .seventh Dlstrc,-The counties of onondaga
Twsaiys,En,ss, D..rle,-Ins counties of Wayne
Tweniynnth D.stric..Thc counties of chemnng.
Thiriieth Dstriet-Tbe counties Of Ontario Yates.
LyngstHn wycmins G lien ana o Wnn
kSss sn f:" 1:"s
s.1eenth. Seventeenth: Eghteen,h, Stneteenth. and
s:is E +: coy
aM III s:%nsy ESs
ely Of Ensac: the Fi,h -A.ssmb!y district o. Erls
;;r Il
+, The words Assembly Districts" when used
or Mhen n S. the T sSs
constituted at the time Of the passage Of this
Owing to the way IN which the Democratic
vote i massed in q few large cities. 1t would
10 difficult for the Democrats to gerrymapder
tho state evon II they had tried, for to do that
It would DO necessary to take wards from
New York and BROOKLYN and add them to the
Duchess. Orange, Oneida. and other districts.
which arc now Republican naturally. 1t Is
posi- BILE for tho Republicans to make a gerry
Inander OF tho state which would give the
Democrats only one district north OF Peel skill.
and which would thus deprive the few, Demo-
cratic counties which are scattered through
the State OF amy Democratic Congressman. In
BIZ that a IN natural laying Of q tie city
the politics oi tho inhabitants of the
sIasIs Rspati i distri S I'M In bfooklyaa
the liepubli lean wards lie together. and there
are enough Of them to makea Congress dis
trlct., II the Democrats Ind wish to gerry
mandor they would have put q few Democratic
wards from Brooklyn In tho Long Island dis
frict. used tho Democratic majority in Staten
Island to wipe out the Brooklyn Republican
district. and Joined part Of New York to the
Rockland district. 1t,would DO even possible
by splitting up Westchester county and put
Ting the Republican part Of the county with
Now York and the Dem ocratic part with the
Putnam Duchess district to make that dis
30 Democrats In comparison with. what the
power 70 tho result OF the sagacions advice OF