New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-18
| CITY MAY GET ALL NEW
CONGRESS DISTRICTS
Legislative Committee on Reap
pOrtiOnment Plans to Sub
NIT Report Tonight.
NO POLITICS, SAYS FRAWLEY
Fairest Ever Made, He Declares,
Though Only One Safe Repub-
lican District Will Probably
Be Allotted to Manhattan.

lican District Will Probably
Be Allotted to Manhattan.
The special legislative committee having
i'm charge the reapportonment Of the Con
gressional districts in the State of New
York under the recent act of Congress re-
quiring such procedure. spent the greater
part Of last night at the Hotel Knicker
booker putting the finishing touches 10
it's report. which has been i'm the maxi
ing since last Monday. Senator Frawley.
chairman OF the committee, said he hoped
to submit the report to the Legislature
tonight.
The point of interest about the report
on which the committee lays the "ost
stress is the presence in the state Of SIX
new Congressional districts, all within the
limits Of the greater city, with W"stc9es-
ter and ROckland counties added, showing
how much greater he rate of Increase IN
population has been here than upstate,
Two of these districts are in rhe Bronx
and the two counties above, two are IN
Manhattan and Alwo In BROOKLYN and
Queens This territory, together with sur
folk and Nassau. used to consist OF nine
teen districts II includes twenty-five un-
der the new appCrtionment The total
number of districts in the state is thus
increased To forty-three.
The average population of the new dis
tricts in Manhattan is 212.C30, according to
the committee. and in Brooklyn 2C6COo In
Manhattan the lowest district numbers
about gOOoo, while the higne+ runs
up to 2l5OOl There Is difference
here. Senator Frawley pointed out last
night. OF only 5.C00, whereas under the last
apportionment the difference between the
population Of various districts IN the city
ranged from 10000 to 5000
The old apportionmert was on the basis
Of $4,000 TO a district according TO Con-
gresham Daniel Riordan who came to
glance over the work of the committee last
night His own district. the ola Sth. 10 be
known in the future as the Hin, if the re-
port goes through numbered about that at
the time Of the apportionment ten years
ago. Its population had now mounted TO
about 3Si 900. he said. The average popula-
ton of the upstate districts under the new
arrangement will be $1,000
Chairman Defends Report.
Senator Frawley was indignant last
night in his denial Of the suggestion that
politics had in any way entered intos the
new division. 1T is The fairest apportion-
ment ever made in this state" was his
sweeping assertion: irrespective Of poll
tics" ne added. ITO my mind we have
weakened some Of he strongest Demo
cratic districts. For instance We have
weakened mine by about 2,GO9" The SEN
-
probably Solidly Democratic still.
This apportionment." he continued, has
been made solely on the basis of popula-
ton. Take New York as an example.
The division throughout Manhattan and
The Bronx has been as nearly lateral as
possible. There are no districts that wab-
BILE all over the city as there were in the
last apportionment How could we tell.
1 anyway. If we had wanted TO arrange the
districts according to political considera-
tons? The last elections were hardly a
fair test II we went very far back for
our crteria. they wouldn't mean much on
account of the increase in population
/ A member of the committee however,
! seemed to be able to guess near enough
| TO the probable result Of the new arrange
n,ent when he allowed the Republicans
only one safe district in the whole Of Man
! haitian This will in the future be known
as the 18th and is situated along the upper
/ West Side
The joining OF Westchester and Rock
/ land with the metropolitan districts de-
ranged all the upstate lines and eau ed
a general shift of boundaries The aim of
| the committee. as announced, was to pad
out the slowly growing portions Of the
state with parts Of the more rapidly in
creasing sections, thus making districts
that would remain as nearly equal as pos
sible during the next ten years
Only -Four Districts Left Intact.
In the general mix-up only four districts
were left intact. The first OF these was
the one commonly called the Northern
District. comprising the counties Of ST.
Lawrence, Franklin Clinton and Essex
! Congressman Maby now represents this
district in the national body and Edwin A.
| Merritt jr minority leader al Albany il
its chieftain. The second district that re-
mains unchanged is that known as the
/ Southwest from which Congressman Vree-
! land halls II includes the counties Of
/ Chautauqua AIegany and Cattaraugus
! The other two so favored are the Onondaga
district. represented by Congressman Dris-
| coli and the oneida Herkimer district, the
/ home Of Vice-President Sherman.
The fears of the Republicans that the re-
/ apportionment would shift many Of THAR
strongest leaders into the same Congress
sional districts bore fruit i'm the cases Of
Congressman J. Sloat Fassett and John ~.
Dwight. former Republican whip of the
House. Mr. Fassett halls from Chenuns
County. while Mr. Dwight is at home in
Tompklns. Both of these counties appear
i'm the list comprising the new 9th district.
which also includes Stcuben, Schuyler and
Toga
Serene h. Payne, for whose safety fears
were also entertained in the upheaval was
left practically undisturbcd in the possess
sion Of Cayuga Wayne, Ontario ana Yates
counties. except that the Democratic county
of Seneca was added TO his district.
-Four counties were split i'm the laying of
boundaries. Erie, Monroe. Rensselaer, and
Westchester. Erie contributes the entire
i1st and 42d districts and helps OUT on IN,
10Th. Four Assembly districts Of Monroe
go into the 2Sth District, while the other
is part of the 39th Troy is added to Al
bany County 10 form the 18th District,
leaving the rest Of Rensselaer, County in
the 18th.
Part Of Westchestcr is added to The
Bronx to help it piece out the Path Congress
sional District The other part goes win
Rockland to make up the 18th The Bronx
itself will have two whole districts within
its limits under the new scheme and VIII
assist I'm the making Of two more Under
the old apportionment If had only one rep