The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-24
TIFF OVER APPORTIOANENT.
Minority Wants to See the New
Districts Before Publication.
Ballot Box Machines Also Cause u
Lively Discussion.
fBy Associated Press. }

ALBANY. N. Y, Aug. 2I.-some ten
minutes were consumed In the tonsti-
tutional Convention this morning ar
ranging for special orders, and during the
debate the Iedpportionment scheme came
in for n share OF the talk.
Mr.. HCtchkiss dJsmJ thought the re-
ort of tho committee should come in this
| week. as II would take some time 10 dis
cuss such a proposition.
Mr.. Needcr Dem.)-I don't think so.
We can get through with 1t in a day.
The Republicans will rush 1t through
and the people will beat II.
The apportionment matter was really
in the same shape this morning as last
night, the committee not having finished
the division or the city Of new YORK
Senate districts or the term of years that
| assemplymen and senators shall serve
for.
Erie County, too. is under debate, and
Monroe. County has almost DECIDED to
| make the division line of the two dis
tricts the Genessee River.
Kings County division, by wards Is
as follows: Third District Wards one.
TWO. Three. -Four. Five, Six: Fourth
District, Wards Seven, Nineteen, Thir.
Eight, Ten. Twelve. Thirty. Thirty-one
sixth District Wards Nine, Eleven
Twenty-Five. Twenty-two:. Seventh bis
teen, sixteen: Eighth District. Wards
Twenty-three. Twenty-four. Twenty
ive, Twenty nine and Flatands; Ninth
District, Wards Eighteen, Twenty-six.
Twenty-seVen, Twenty-eig
MIR. Osborn Dem.) said 1t was sin
gular thing that the majority had given
the distributing of Kings and other coun-
ties to the newspapers, and yet had re-
fused the minority members permission
to look at the apportionment.
AS a member of the committee he pro-
| tested against the delay. He believed
more time should be given for debate
Republicans who were not on the com
mittee were aiding In the apportion-
ment. while members of the minority
OF the committee had not seen It,
Mr.. Becker. of Buffalo, who Is Chair
man of the Committee, said he had been
hard at work fixing the districts, and
Mr.. Root. OF New York, was now work.
ing on the New York City districts.
MIR. Bowers i would like to ask II 1t
is not an outsider named Reid who is
| working on II.
The Chair MIR. Root worked until an
| early hour this morning on II.
MIR. Becker said that the city of New
York appartionmcnt would be finished
by Monday. lie moved that an extension
MR. imf ha BE syep h hs sSat ths matter
an outrage on the minority. BY Mr..
Becker's motion the minority OF the
| Committee will not see the districts as
apportioned until they see them In some
| the house"
| Mr.. Becker's amendment was adopted
and the Apportionment Committee will
report the new proposed amendment In
| regard to the apportionment on Mon
day night. The Cities Committee re-
port will be taken up on Monday morn
Several resolutions were offered to do
away with the Saturday afternoon ses-
sion, and the Committee on Rules took
them for consideration.
| he VI, Tor nral n lnl
statement OF the number OF cases dis
posed Of by the Board of Claims in the
past year.
The State Comptroller sent in a report
of the lands outside OF the forest pre-
serve owned by the State.
When the amendment OF Mr.: HI
| to make constitutional the use OF ballot
machines was brought up there. wa,
quite a good deal OF opposition devel
oped.'
MIR. Schumacher. of Kings said tina
fered with by feloniously inclined per
sons as to defeaet the ballot: In his .ex
perience as a prosecuting officer he has
seen men who could. inside of two min
utes. destroy any machine ever made.
Mr.. Hamlln said that the Myers ballo
machine had been used In two OF thu
towns of the county he represented, ant
both times It had failed. He wished 4
understood that he believed that to vot'
by machine was an insult to the intelli
gence OF the voter
MT. ftoils ulHereu Win MN, ne pe
lleved, that the province OF the ballo
machine was simply to count, and tina
1t required intelligence to cast the vot
equally az much as 1t did to fold bal
lot. He believed this was a step forwar,
In mechanical science and the Constitu
ton should aid II. He did not believ
that with certain detection staring then
in the face men would attempt to de
stroy machines.
Mr.. j. J. Green said that the agsac,
that made the machine could contrO
them. and men who worked In the fac
tories where the machine was mad
could be used as factors against them
Mr. Hill said that the amendment di
not compel the use Of any particula
! machine. Within the next ten year
I some great invention might be made an
the Constitution should open the doc
to 1t.