New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-17
THE WRONG MAY BE RlGHIED
prp1-BIICANs MOVING TO EFFECT A CON
GREssIONAL REAPPORTloNMhNI'

s,,,,,,x,ry RESOLUTION PASSED IN THE
,esryr1y-A BILL DESIGNED TO PRO
TEcr AND PERPETrATE HIS
ToRIc MONUMENTS.
,xc,, ~ CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBuNE.l
r.,hanv Jan. ia reappor;onment OF the Con-
a,s,r,cts OF the state now seems prob
T. was announced in The Tribune fortnight
ao''' 49,. ,re leaders of the Republican majority in
aso .,s,a,ure were considering the policy of re-
'"e = the districts if they had the authority,
ar'aN5" Two weeks consideration of the subject
am ,i,n has apparently been reached 10 make
.,.,ons for the redistrctlng of the state
".ts-os r Conk!ing of New-York CITY preached
the subject by oheiihs INC i0'""7
d.y in the Assembly:
r..,,sd That the Committee on Judiciary of
assembly be authorized and directed to report
70 his sesyaiure now in session has in the opinion
NE hs said committee. the lawful right To reappor-
1on the Congressional districts OF the STATE o' New
York
rb resolution was referred without protest
<.n, ,he Democrats. although possibly Samuel j.
roIsv the Democratic leader did not comprehend
49, nurnort. Mir Conkiing afterward said. in ex-
panation OF his action;
In, iIT mar the democratic State Board OF Can
vsssers OF 1891. by wi!ful DISREGARD OF court or
of issS has emphacay stamped the Congressional
Hpportionmeni act Of 1892 as fraudulent me mem mem
- ,baf State Board of CanVdssers-Frank flce,
6e[s o. R6 5nSr Elliot Danforth Edward Wempe and
Charles F Tabor-have o confessed lner
n Nv, he Court Of Appeals. No language could
be stronger than e i ae of %f he state Board Of cam
vssssrs If lSyl in canvassng the Myod. OF ;raudu-
lent election IF i having been created by fraud
and NOT having been elected by the people we need
not pay any the Congress districts OF the
staPfpp Nsturaly the Democratic Legislature Of
iS9 knowing its fraudulent nature, passed an act
sb9n,ofulv gerTymandering the congress dis
trcis Of the state Any one who VII critically e S
anime the election returns Of the state since the
congressional Reapp0rtionment act was passed can
satisfy himself that thousands 81 yoters St me
representation at Washington by that act.
Senator O'Connor. the Republican President pro
tempore upon hearing Of Assemblyman Conk-
ling's action. said:
Mr. Conkng has done right. We were cheated
Congressional apportonment as well as in other
matters. and beeye we should pass Just meas
The especial aim of the Democratic leaders when
they passed the Congressional Apportionment act
was apparently to dispose the majority of the
Congress districts TO include the Democratic
cities and to leave the Republican farmer voters
with only a small proportion OF the districts at
their command. The first election showed that
the Democratic leaders were right Mr.. Cleveland
carried the State by only about $1,000, but the
Democratic party carried twenty-five of the thirty
four districts. The political landslide Of 1894 has
majority of the districts. but this condition Of
things cannot last: for with the districts remain
ing as they are, far their boundaries are
concerned the same inequality or representation
VIII soon return ne h 81 ne haIanter
OF the present districts but upon the fact that they
ranged so far as their territory is concerned The
Republican districts Of the interior OF the st ds
tricts are small and scanty of population by COM
parson. .. sa,.
the Bill of the Committee Of Seventy providing
for public notice and public hearings on bills pro,
Brooklyn. At his request this excellent measure
pryae % s. of a ssoSn5 s
celebrated Lexow Investigating Commttee was
Se sns and oa sy be Is ya fGr ha
be two bills attached to this report; one Of them
cans and two Democrats members of the Board
Of Police and the SECOND VIII make changes an IN
referring to the Police Department. TO carry out
Senator Mullin introduced bill to-day appropriat-
ing for me PAY az hs Of he a G Inc
senator Robertson for the Sons of the American
Revolution. today introduced a bill Incorporating
ects and to provide for the Of property
of the state and Of property TO be acqured by the
the trustees may hold not to exceed $4,000 worth
of property exclusive Of that belonging 10 s ne c Sae
Of such OF its property as tney may ~ scen
and historic places and objects throughout the state
The incorporators are; ., - p.hoooL ,ohr NJ
Franc, Andrew H Green. Charles A; Dana Oswald
O,tend fer; Chauncey ~ Depew; Horace Porter
Haven Elbridge r. Gerry. Walter s: Logan; Henry
=. Rowland. Edward p Hatch, William l.. Bull
Wright, Alexander f. orr, William NJ Evari:.
Wager Swayne Charles r. Miller. Frederick W
madge Thomas V. Welch. S. Van Rensselaer,
Cruger. Frederick J. De Peyster. Morgan DIX, John
A. Stewart. Charles &. Beaman. Francis Ninton
Greene Peter a. Porter. George y. Lawrence. Ben
tamin r Tracy Augustus Frank Charles II. Lin
coin John Hudson Peck. Sherman s. Rogers. Will
lam Hamilton Harris. Lewis Cass Ledyard Alex
ander b. Crane. John Hodge. Robert L. Fryer. J.
s r. Stranahan. Samuel Parsons. jr,. Charles A.
Hawley Henry +. Gregory, Frederick ID. Tappen.
Henry j. Cookingham. Henry r. Durfee and IA.
Waller Webb.