The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-15
P~oIISrohI VOTES

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residents in the United States Senate. st.
Louis. Boston, and Baltimore. Selma Ala,
has twos Senators; Concord, N. H., two, and spo-
kane, Wash, two.
The last Republican Licutenant-G Governor
chosen concurrontly with the Senate ovor which
he presided was elected in 1879. There will DO
an election for Lieutenant Governor and for
state Senators this year.
eeventy.hve million dollars IL the estimated
sum Of the first budget Of the enlarged Now
York, as revised and corrected. The total APP
propriations by tho various Boards Of Estimate
in December was SOS. 71o.0o3. or this sum
New York appropriated S51 ,443, 643, Brooklyn
$1b. 172, 116, Queens 81, 848, 1875, and Richmond
$447,517.
The last Pennsylvania Legislature. following.
It is claimed, the precedent established by Its
predecessors, appropriated moro money than tho
revenues justified and Auditor. General Meylin
now estimates that there will be q deficit OF
1900, 0oo'at the close OF the fiscal year. Nov. 80.
There need, however,. be no apprehension on the
subject, for the debt of Pennsylvania is only
$1,000 ,00o, and the assessed value Of property
within It's borders is 80. SOC. 00o. 900.
Though the 'libcral Sunday" bills introduced
at Albany by Assemblyman Hamburger are not
finding much favor among tho members Of tho
majority in the Legislature they have gained Q
considerable measure of approval in the district
which he represents, the Tenth Assembly. and
meetings in support Of them and Of him have
been held.
Among tho duties which devolve by law on
the Municipal Assembly, the designation Of
Commissioners of Deeds, and among those APP
pointed at recent meetings was Elizabeth Doyle,
,rlNaA AA1,tal alIrAna ts ssErnah D0n1 mad
Queens county. New York" The Municipal
Assembly has not done its work in respect to the
appointment of Commissioner Of Deeds very
effectively SO far. Judging from the fact that at
its first meeting IN February it was found that
twenty-six of those chosen in January were APP
pointed under names other than the correct
ones and. therefore, such appointments had to
be rescinded and others. and corrected ones,
made in their stead. Nancy Cue was one OF
them.
Maryland has been 30 long represented by
Democrats in the United States Sen ite that It
will impress many persons as a veritable now
departure to observe that after March 4 the
Terrapin State will have two Republicans. the
junior of whom, Judge MoComas. was Score
tho Presidential election Of 1899. Judge Nc.
Comas is seven years younger than Senator Cor
man. whom he succeeds. Both were born in
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politics OF that State, though at different ends Of
It, Senator Germans homo being near Annapolis
McComas is a Republican who has had In his
time some hard fl yhts. He was defeated for
e eSaf he Sa sw eleetyeS {i IN is ss0 BY Sy only fSG 100. l To'i Is
q graduate Of Dickinson College and was q
Judge when elected G, senator. Senator Cor
man began his political career as a page in Con-
gress.
Tinkering with tho ballot law of some States
has not ceased. even in Ohio, one Of the pioneers
in the adoption of tho Australian ballot sys-
bill to extend the disability clause of the cleo
ton law and to permit the election judges to
assist any voter who cannot, read or write.
There Is, relatively. not much illiteracy in Ohio,
and it is one of the States which preserved in
tact the system of annual elections and OF few
names on q ticket.
The remnant Of Queens county. so to speak
is to become a new county, il the Legislature
approves, on Jan. /, 1899. A bill approved by
T rIdoTn Of Queens as, ssG7untE : in mass mssting al
county is to be called Nassau but that do
signation was not adopted until after debate.
Norfolk and Bryant, the last being suggested
by tho fact that the poet, William Cullen Bry.
ant, resided near Roslyn.
The salary of the Secretary to the President
Of tho Bo 8 Let Of Public IS lmprovements has been
Mooney.
me estimate q u u0e CntcI engineer OF Cn0 water
supply OF New York is that $500. 900 is re-
auired for the present immediate necessities
of Brooklyn" in respect to water service.
The one Republican. Romulus Linney. who
voted for tho Teller silver resolution in the
House of Representatives is a North Carolinian
and represents what Is known as the sugar
grove district, in the western portion of the
state, his, home being in Taylorsville. He
owes his election to Popullst as well as Republi-
can votes. He was a soldier in the Confoder-
ate Army.
The Tammany Democrats of the Seventh AS
sembly district have authorized their leader,
s sare for T The b rssis'e 1@ a % this disfric4 II nos to Sc
an additional small park within the territory
between West Fourteenth and West Twentieth
There is no park in this part of town at present,
though arrangements are pending for one in tho
Twentieth ward. between Twenty: sevcnth and
and in the Twenty-second. ward north of Fifty
second street, and west of Tenth avenue. The
supplied with small parks. but the Sixteenth
ward has, as yet. none, and to secure one the
committee Is to be appointed.
A Congressman is to be elected In each Of the
thirty-four districts of New York this year.
Democrats Representative, though twenty-five
north Of that line, and fully ten of them are
to be contested vigorously by the Democrats
this year.
All is not harmony with what is called tho
,Tammany Society Of Chicago. which has filed a
bill in the Circuit Court in which the Grand
Sachem OF tho Organization and about a dozen
Sachems appointed by him are made defend-
ants. 1t appears that Grand Sachem Hen
messy, after leaving a meeting of the society
on Jan. 90. called a gathering OF the Sachems on
Jan. ~ and was reelected Grand Sachem. The
Court is asked to restrain him from exercising
the preroRatives of his office until It can be de-
terInined who is the chief man in the society in
Chicago. There is no Democratic Club on Fifth
avenue, Chicago; Fifth avenue. Chicago, is in
tne south SlQe District. from which Dan0CratiC
majorities chiefly come. and In which members
OF the Tammany Society. otherwise called 'tho
push are many.
In the superintendent of New York city dis
tricts made IN 1898 there were twelve Senatorial
districts. to be subdivided into thirty. five As
sembly districts at the ratio of three Assem-
bly, for each Senatorial district. Necessarily.
one Of the Senatorial districts was discrimi.
mated against by being divided into two AS
as the, annexed district. now represented in Al.
bany, by Charles l.. Guy, and though 1t is tho
district which is growing most rapidly In popu-
lation IT has only two Assemblymen. while
three. There, is no way of correcting this in.
justice, but along with II Is another. II has but
TWO Aldermen. tho Aldermanic diafricta ha-