The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-10

OF member or Assembly 70 which suoh counties shall
Be entitled and shall to Be filed in the OF
the clerks OF their respective counties Of
such distrcts specifying the number Of each district
and the population thereof according To the last pre-
sedinE enumeration . be ascertaned. and
the apportionmsnt districts shall unaitered
provided.
Under the Constitution every county. except
the county OF Hamilton. 10 entitled to one
member Of the Assembly. no matter what its
population IL There arc several counties in
the State. which. under an apportionment
based on population only. would have to be
consolidated with other counties in order to
entitle them to An Assemblyman. Putnam
county has less than half the requisite popu-
lation. It polled In the last Presidential year
less than 3. 700 votes. while the ratio under the
new enumeration will be one Assemblyman to
about 10000 voters Schuyler county polls
less than s 600 votes. Yates, Seneca. Genesee.
Allegany. and Orleans are few other Of the
counties not entitled. on the basis Of their pop
ulation. to q whole Assemblyman. Even Mr..
Platt's county. Tioga. polls less than 5000
votes. and on q strictly representative basis
would have to take In part Of an adjacent
county to entitle It to whole member Of
Assembly.
New York. Brooklyn. and the other large
cities lose by this constitutional provision. as
the population necessary to make up the quota
Of the small counties has to come from the big
cities. In New York this will mean the loss Of
two or three ACKNOWLEDGMENT which on strict
~ Per canita basis II would be entitled to.
of proportion to the rest Of the State and even
with this loss the city will be. entitled to over
four which it now has. On the basis Of the
police census the figures Of the Board Of
Health. estimates based on the proportion Of
IN &c fflra MI
nanbes Of AsssmGiymon will be thirfy.tSw;o ' or
trely to the part of New York above Fifty ninth
street Instead OF gains below Eoqrtsenth
s saGss WIN IN Is sed tbn ]
Fifth: Eleventh. and Fourteenth. All these
in part below Fourteenth street '' - ""0'' VI
., 1t j. estimated st * the Bureau 81 Elections:
there will be next iaii in the city Of nav YORK
100000 male adult citizens. In addition to
these there will be many male adult aliens.
sembly, and their. ramns necessarily do not
New York viii be- Quarter more a. least sole IN
1892 than in 1880. but there has been u de.
crease in the downtown districts. which will
tell when 1t comes to renpportionmcnt.
This change will have II far aching effect in
politics. There will be thirty-two or thirty
The basis Of representation in the political eX-
ecutye committees Will be changed and the
see
now SO large that proposition was recently
made in the Executive Committee OF Tammany
trict leadership and to anticipate the action Of
the Legislature in splitting mp the districts.
ers OF the large districts did not want to have
them divided: and i was thought as well to
aTe the t fitIn af Of I'll. ctv
lives above Fifty-ninth streetanow, and in O
few years there will he half the population
has been in the Nineteenth district, which in.
GUIDES the whole west side of the city from
strct Dqyy
interests Of its uptown and down;to ends
are d,ssimilar. and the uptown end is strong ;
qualified voters in this district by next fall. or
enough TOR three Aissembiymen. , ~ -,
Harlem east Of Seventh 's avenue i Between the
river the PARK. and Ninety first street. roughly
sneaking. It has as many voters as tho Nine.
north OF Fifty: ninth street and east Of Lexing-
teenth and Twcnty third. and i is entitled to
two AsseImbiymss;n e =. and fraction; With the
entd to e hE n
stead Of three. The annexed district is en-
titled to an Asssmblyman and n large fraction
Aldermen viii Doubtless consider the POLITICAL
as wS hat tie sa hf
be continuous Territory but there will k.no
cratic. The. other District viii b" west and
viii be- snail nj ' TSa nea viii h"ve al to " run
pretty far east or south 10 get enough Demo
sra VG The tenas f ' part foy oys
nusSSaPs Tie n En1n T sd th TEF
Ihe natural ,way to annarticn New york is to
nue. as b, medal line. and to slice. the city, on
roth sides OF this line 2, into section. Al Of
now ssiGw Prk s afs
by the $500 majority Of tn" gas hou 50 dis
lower part Of the Third which would
L doss tn part vote x9.es now a.
The whole city should le. like q cronfection-
s s SHEET c5S * Ss% y /" a ts Ssn:
Above Fifty.ninth street there nre enough
that way, Tie Nnotecnth is Democrats now .
ana strees s s%nmps
sssSad ana iloth srsfts the district !;
street. Rs now II will be too big. and 1t will be
bigger every year. II the line is drawn at
Seventy second or Figlity-lfth streets and
run up to include Manhattanville and tho
west end Of Harlem. the Republicans will
stand good Glance Of carrying it. The dis
trict might be oxen ut Eichty-hfth and run
down far end :h to make tho part below
Eighty-tifth D. nocratic. and then the Sec
ton above Eigr y-fifth be made to include a
good part Of u lrlem. But the Democratic
maiorities in II, lem come from the east end
OF the district y not from the Eighth avenue
end. WI
But whatever cray the question OF reappor-
tionment Is to d. considered there must be
Democratic gain Even II there were a hepub-
lican Board OF Aldermen and they were to go
Eiezagging around over the city picking up the
Republican election districts and kepubIican
blocks. it would be hard for them u lay out
more than four safe Republican districts, az
long as they kept to the provisions OF the law
few people in u district, A random Rpportion-
ment even made by men who had before them
only map OF New York and detailed state
ment OF the population. could not be- greatly
improved on by the Democrats.
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