The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-27
ODELLS APPORTIONMENTDEAD
sTHE DEMONSTRATIONS PLAN
-" ADOPTED IN CAUCUS.


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l. tT1ll He Intr Oduced in both Houses To-day
: 1T Embraces the Parsons Scheme for
This County and WoOdruH's Plan for
= KinKs-BroOklyn Cots Another Senator
ALBANY, April 2o.-The Republican Sena-
tors tonight oaucused upon a legislative
reapportionment bill, submitted by the
special ap~portionment committee. The Re-
publican members Of the apportionment com-
mittee met with Gov. Higgins last night at
the executive chamber, and they were
in session until after midnight. The bill
reported TO the Senate caucus tonight by
the apportionment committee was approved
at the Governors conference last night.
Tonight the Republican caucus added its
approval to the measure, and it will be intro
duoed in zach branch Of the Legislature
tomorrow. e
The apportionment bill is entirely salts
factory to Gov. Higgins and practically
was outlined by him. 1t embraces the
Parsons plan for New York county, the
Woodruff plan for Kings county and the
plan favored by Senator Davis for Erie
county. 1t requires twenty-six votes to
pass the bill in the Senate, and several moro
than that number approved it in the Re
publican caucus tonight. There are
thirty-six Republican Senators.
The odell showing in the caucus was
pitiable. AS previously predicted in these
dispatches, the Odell-Halpin plan was con-
signed to the legislative waste basket with
out ceremony.
At the caucus tonight Senator Elsberg
wanted action postponed until next Tues
day, but twenty-six Senators voted against
the motion, and the ap~portionment bill Is
to 60 through the Senate as a party measure.
No trouble is anticipated in the Assembly,
although the Republican Assemblymen
will caucus Monday night. Gov Higgins
is taking no chances, having become
thoroughly familiar with the subterranean
diggings of Odell.
Hereafter there will be one additional
Senate district, or ffty-one in all, and it
will be located in Kings county. The ap-
p~ortionment plan does not place any two
Of the members Of the present Senate in
the same district. Several counties,
though, are so placed as not to please their
respective county Republican managers,
especially Senator Bracket, whose present
district comprises Saratoga, Schenectady
and Washington counties. The new APP
portionment takes Washington away from
his district, leaving his new district to
comprise Saratoga and Schenectady. This
change was occasioned IN account OF the
big increase in Schenectady county.
AZ the Governors conference last night
the Parsons plan was adopted unanimously,
contrary TO general expectations. Sena-
tor Malby, who was expected TO lead the
Odell fight, did not attend the conference.
The Senate district county boundaries as
outlined in the ap~portionment bill approved
by the apportionment committee n Gov.
Higgins are!
DIS. County.
l,...Sullolk and Nassau.
2.... Queens and Richmond.
3-io. Kings.
iI-22. New York.
81. .,.. WeStchester.
~ ,,.. Orange and Rockland.
q. e.. Columbia. Duchess and Putnam.
"a 49,. Ulster And Greene.
= .,.. Delaware Chensngo and sullivan.
IS .... Saratoga and Schenectady.
"a. .... Warren. Fulton, Hamilton and Montgomery.
90 go. Albany.
%l..,.. Rensselaer,.
-. e.. Washington, Essex and Clinton.
I3.,..St Lawrence and franklin.
$40. Herkimer. Otsego and SchohArie
IS. .... Oneida.
80 .... JcTer son and Lewis,
:7.... .Oswego and Madison.
So. onondAga.
% 900. Cortland, Broome and Tioga.
~ 90. Chcmung, Schuyler.
I...,. Steuben and AreEany.
q co.. Ontario and Wayne.
~ .., Cayuga, Seneca and Yates.
t,-ij. Monroe.
~. Niagara and Orleans.
a. Wyoming, livingston and Gcncsce,
q "a. Ertc.
81 ChhutauduG and CattaraueuS,
After heing in caucus for four hours to-
night by A vote OF % to 7 the Republican
Senators decided to make the reappor-
,ionment bill prepared by the special COM
mittee of the Legislature a party measure
and the bill will be reported tomorrow in
the Senate.
OF the thirty-six Senators thirty-ive were
present, Senator Drescher Of Brooklyn
leing the absentee. Those who voted
against making the bill a party measure
were Senator'S Bracket of Saratoga. Good
sell of Orange, Smith of Columbia Lou
''Ciio'oifp SNO '" 'J''Ahei
who did not like the change in his Senate
district, and Elsberg and SAKE Of New York
city. SAKE said the Odell plan gave him a
better district to run in han the Parsons
plan, and denied that he voted against the
Gov, Higgins bill because Of the influence
Of Lemuel Ely Quigg. The Senators who
did not vote were Malbv Of st. Lawrence
and Prime OF Essex.
Senator Fechter Of Buffalo was one Of the
teven to vote against the bill. His election
was an accident in a Democratic district,
but nevertheless he wanted his district
liked up so he could nave a chance to win.
This could not be done without endangerlng
either one or the other two sure Republican
districts in Erie county.
There was a string attached to making
the bill a party measure so far as concerned
the Parsons plan. Senator Lewis's motion
10 make the bill a party measure bad a
proviso that il a New York county apportion-
ment plan should be submitted by Senator
ilsberg by Monday night, upon which all
factions could agree, that would be accepted
Iy tho oo,o