The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-27

fuses to accept any other plan the present
caucus action stands. 1t was thought
best by Gov. HigginE's friends, apparently,
TO let Odells friends down easy by putting
In the proviso, which they insist really means
nothing, because of the power of Parsons
10 veto any other plan by refusing to
favor it.
The only fight over the apportionment
was between the Parsons and Odell plans
for New York county. The Parsons plan
has been adopted with such unanimity
that the wonder is that Mr.. 0dell and Mr..
Halpin even went to the expense OF getting
a map prepared according to their plan4
The consideration it received in Albady
hasn't even justified the expenditure OF
postage on it from New York to Albany.
The August primaries to choose dele
gates to the mex State convention and
members Of the county committee for next
year will come under the operations Of the
Parsons plan adopted at the Senate caucus
tonight. Under the Parsons plan the
districts OF Elections Commissioner Charles
B. Page of the Seventeenth district, George
Wanamaker Of the Fifteenth district, Her.
man Joveshof Of the Thirteenth district
and John P. Windolph Of the Eleventh,
are mixed up 30 as to make two districts.
Two districts are made Of the Third,
Sixth, First and Second, represented by
Lewis j. Hoenninger, James e. March,
f. F. Merwin and Michael Hines. This
combination it is expected will drop March
and Merwin out. Ferdinand Eidmann OF
the Tenth district and James Pegnam OF
the Fourteenth district are thrown to-
gether in the Eighteenth. This means
that Pegnam will ave to drop out. Charles
X. Lexow Of the present Twenty-second
district and Smith Pine of the Twenty
fourth also are thrown together in one
district.
John Shea; in the present Twentieth
district, Is fixed up 80 that he can remain
in the new district, This is the late Capt.
Goddard's old district. Deputy State Ex-
cise Commissioners Healy's present Thirty
fifth district is divided into three districts,
and he will be able to control only one of
them.
William H. Ten Eyck's district is used to
make up two new districts. Ten Eyok
controls the present ~Thirty-fourth district
and is likely to continue to control the
two new districts 80 long as he holds his
Tammany job as Aqueduct Commissioner.
William Halpin is not disturbed in his
Ninth district materially, but it is not ex-
pected that he will last long after the State
Tax Commission is recognized, through
which he now draws $1,000 a year under an
appointment from Odell when he was Gov
ernor. Whether there will be an investiga-
ton before the tag board is reorganized
remains to be seen.
The Parsons plan provides for the aboli-
ton Of five Of the present districts away
down town and establishes three new ones
in The Bronx and one in Senator Pages
new Senate district and one in Senator
Saxe's new district. The Democratic ter
ritory in the Page and SAKE districts, which
includes the upper West Side and the greater
part OF Harlem, is located in Manhattan
vile. This territory is divided between
the two districts.
Senator Elsberg's present district is
run down to include the present Fifth dis
trict at Washington square, which gives
the Republicans three sure Republican
districts in New York county out of the
twelve. The adoption Of the Parsons
plan will have an immense moral effect
upon the August primaries. and it is ex-
pected that it also will in a short time break
down the Odell-Halpin opposition to Par
SOiE III VIC COulll1 CollllllltuDC' hOllO Vi
the district leaders opposed to Parsons are
holding substantial State sinecures which
they secured when Odell was Governor,
but it Is not believed their influence will
amount to much in the future after they
lose their jobs.
Boards of supervisors in the various
counties fix the boundaries for the Assembly
districts. the Legislature merely deter
mining the number of Assemblymen which
each county is entitled to. The following
shows the number of Assemblymen each
county has, according to the net appor-
tionment, with the number they have at
present in parenthesis wherever a change
occurs:
Albany, 8 az; Allegany, /; Broome; 1 (2);
Cattaraugls, / (2); Cayuga, l (2); Chau-
tauqua, 2; Chemung, 1; Chenango, 4; Clinton,
/; Columbia, 1; Cortland, 1; Delaware, 1;
Duchess, 2; Erie, 0 81; Essex, 1; Franklin.
1; Fulton Hamilton 1; Genesee, 1; Greene, 1;
Herkimer, /; Jefferson, 2; Kings, IS (21;
Lewis, /; Livingston 4; Madison, /; Monroe;
s ~; Montgomery, 1; Nassau, 1; New York,
IS; Niagara, 2; Oneida, 8; Onondaga, 3 "a;
Ontario, 1; Orange, 2; Orleans, 1; Oswego,
1 (2); Otsego, i; Queens, 4 (s); Rensselaer,,
2 81; Richmond, i; Rockland, 1; st. Law
renee, 2; Saratoga, 1; Schenectady, I; Scho-
harie, 1; Schuyler, 1; Seneca, /; Steuben, 2;
Suffolk, 2; Sullivan, 1; Tioga, /; Tompkins,
/; Ulster, 2; Warren, /; Washington, /;
Wayne, /; Westchester, 4 90; Wyoming,
/; Yates, L;