106th New York State Legislature

106th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1883
Senate
Members	32
President	Lt. Gov. David B. Hill (D)
Temporary President	John C. Jacobs (D)
Party control	Democratic (18-14)
Assembly
Members	128
Speaker	Alfred C. Chapin (D)
Party control	Democratic (85-43)
Sessions
1st	January 2 – May 4, 1883

The 106th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to May 4, 1883, during the first year of Grover Cleveland's governorship, in Albany.

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts; senators for a two-year term, assemblymen for a one-year term. The senatorial districts were made up of entire counties, except New York County (seven districts) and Kings County (three districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards,[1] forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In New York City the Democrats were split into three factions: Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The 1882 New York state election was held on November 7. Democrats Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The other two statewide elective offices up for election were also carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Democratic 535,000; Republican 342,000; Prohibition 26,000; and Greenback 12,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1883; and adjourned on May 4.

Alfred C. Chapin (D) was elected Speaker with 84 votes against 41 for Theodore Roosevelt (R).[2]

On January 11, John C. Jacobs (D) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.

On March 14, the Legislature elected William B. Ruggles (Dem.) as Superintendent of Public Instructions, with 94 votes against 52 for Neil Gilmour (Rep.), to succeed Gilmour for a term of three years.[3]

State Senate

Districts

1st District: Queens and Suffolk counties
2nd District: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th and 22nd Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht in Kings County
3rd District: 3rd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd Ward of the City of Brooklyn
4th District: 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and the towns of New Lots and Flatlands in Kings County
5th District: Richmond County and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th and parts of the 4th and 9th Ward of New York City
6th District: 7th, 11th, 13th and part of the 4th Ward of NYC
7th District: 10th, 17th and part of the 15th, 18th and 21st Ward of NYC
8th District: 16th and part of the 9th, 15th, 18th, 20th and 21st Ward of NYC
9th District: Part of the 18th, 19th and 21st Ward of NYC
10th District: Part of the 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd Ward of NYC
11th District: 23rd and 24th, and part of the 12th, 20th and 22nd Ward of NYC
12th District: Rockland and Westchester counties
13th District: Orange and Sullivan counties
14th District: Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties
15th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties
16th District: Rensselaer and Washington counties
17th District: Albany County
18th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga and Schenectady counties
19th District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
20th District: Franklin, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties
21st District: Oswego and Jefferson counties
22nd District: Oneida County
23rd District: Herkimer, Madison and Otsego counties
24th District: Chenango, Delaware and Broome counties
25th District: Onondaga and Cortland counties
26th District: Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins and Tioga counties
27th District: Allegany, Chemung and Steuben counties
28th District: Ontario, Schuyler, Wayne and Yates counties
29th District: Monroe and Orleans counties
30th District: Genesee, Livingston, Niagara and Wyoming counties
31st District: Erie County
32nd District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	James W. Covert*	Democrat
2nd	John J. Kiernan*	Democrat
3rd	Charles H. Russell*	Republican
4th	John C. Jacobs*	Democrat	on January 11, elected president pro tempore
5th	John G. Boyd*	Democrat
6th	Thomas F. Grady*	Democrat
7th	James Daly*	Democrat
8th	John W. Browning*	Democrat
9th	James Fitzgerald*	Democrat
10th	Joseph Koch*	Democrat
11th	Frank P. Treanor*	Democrat
12th	Henry C. Nelson*	Democrat
13th	James Mackin*	Democrat
14th	Addison P. Jones*	Democrat
15th	Homer A. Nelson*	Democrat
16th	Charles L. MacArthur*	Republican
17th	Abraham Lansing*	Democrat
18th	Alexander B. Baucus*	Democrat
19th	Shepard P. Bowen*	Republican
20th	Dolphus S. Lynde*	Republican
21st	Frederick Lansing*	Republican
22nd	Robert H. Roberts*	Democrat
23rd	Alexander M. Holmes*	Republican
24th	Edward B. Thomas*	Republican
25th	Dennis McCarthy*	Republican
26th	David H. Evans*	Republican
27th	Sumner Baldwin*	Republican
28th	George P. Lord*	Republican
29th	Edmund L. Pitts*	Republican
30th	Timothy E. Ellsworth*	Republican
31st	Robert C. Titus*	Democrat
32nd	Norman M. Allen*	Republican

Employees

Clerk: John W. Vrooman
Sergeant-at-Arms: John W. Corning
Doorkeeper: Charles F. Brady
Stenographer: Hudson C. Tanner

State Assembly

Assemblymen

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Daniel P. Winne[4]	Democrat
	2nd	Warren S. Kelley	Democrat
	3rd	Edward A. Maher	Democrat
	4th	Joseph Delahanty	Dem./Labor Reform
Allegany		Charles S. Hall	Republican
Broome		Lewis Chester Bartlett	Democrat
Cattaraugus	1st	Charles S. Cary	Democrat
Cattaraugus	2nd	Elijah R. Schoonmaker*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Josiah H. Hamilton	Democrat
Cayuga	2nd	William Howland	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Charles H. Corbett	Democrat
Chautauqua	2nd	Oscar F. Price	Republican
Chemung		Jeremiah J. O'Connor	Democrat
Chenango		Silas W. Berry*	Republican
Clinton		Benjamin D. Clapp*	Republican
Columbia		Abram L. Schermerhorn*	Democrat
Cortland		Judson C. Nelson	Democrat
Delaware		Timothy Sanderson	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Storm Emans	Democrat
Dutchess	2nd	Edgar A. Briggs	Republican
Erie	1st	Cornelius Donohue	Democrat
	2nd	Godfrey Ernst	Labor Reform/Rep.
	3rd	Elias S. Hawley	Republican
	4th	Timothy W. Jackson*	Democrat
	5th	David J. Wilcox	Democrat
Essex		Nathaniel C. Boynton	Republican
Franklin		William T. O'Neil*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Richard Murray	Democrat
Genesee		Robert W. Nichol	Democrat
Greene		Frank S. Decker	Democrat
Herkimer		George W. Smith	Democrat
Jefferson	1st	Isaac L. Hunt, Jr.*	Republican
Jefferson	2nd	William M. Thomson	Democrat
Kings	1st	Michael E. Butler	Democrat
	2nd	Bernard J. Mulholland	Republican
	3rd	Charles J. Henry	Democrat
	4th	Patrick Burns	Democrat
	5th	Thomas J. Sheridan*	Ind. Dem.	unsuccessfully contested by Michael J. Coffey (D)[5] and [6]
	6th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat
	7th	George H. Lindsay*	Democrat
	8th	David Lindsay	Republican	unsuccessfully contested by Robert E. Connelly (D)[7] and [8]
	9th	Alfred Hodges[9]	Republican
	10th	James Taylor	Republican
	11th	Alfred C. Chapin*	Democrat	elected Speaker; on November 6, 1883, elected New York State Comptroller
	12th	Mortimer C. Earl	Democrat
Lewis		Friend Hoyt	Democrat
Livingston		Kidder M. Scott*	Republican
Madison		George H. Benjamin	Republican
Monroe	1st	Levi J. DeLand	Democrat
	2nd	David Healy	Labor Reform/Dem.
	3rd	Alexander P. Butts*	Democrat
Montgomery		James R. Snell	Democrat
New York	1st	Michael C. Murphy*	Irving Hall Dem.
	2nd	Thomas Maher*	Tammany Dem.
	3rd	Patrick N. Oakley	Tammany Dem.
	4th	Patrick H. Roche	Irving Hall Dem.
	5th	Dominick F. Mullaney	Tammany Dem.
	6th	Timothy J. Campbell	County/Irv. H. Dem.
	7th	Lucas L. Van Allen*	Republican
	8th	George H. Werfelman	Republican
	9th	Frederick B. House	Republican
	10th	George F. Roesch	County/Tam. Dem.
	11th	Walter Howe	Republican
	12th	Emanuel A. Schwarz	Tammany Dem.
	13th	Thales S. Bliss	County/Tam. Dem.	unsuccessfully contested by Henry L. Sprague (R)[10] and [11]
	14th	John Murphy	County/Tam. Dem.
	15th	James F. Higgins	Democrat
	16th	Francis B. Spinola	Democrat
	17th	John Quinn	County/Tam. Dem.
	18th	Daniel S. McElroy	County Dem.
	19th	John McManus*	Tam./Irv. Hall Dem.
	20th	James Haggerty*	Democrat
	21st	Theodore Roosevelt*	Republican	Minority Leader
	22nd	Jacob F. Miller	County/Tam. Dem.
	23rd	Leroy Bowers Crane*	Republican
	24th	John J. Clarke	Tammany Dem.
Niagara	1st	Joseph W. Higgins*	Democrat
Niagara	2nd	Thomas Vincent Welch*	Democrat
Oneida	1st	William Townsend	Democrat
	2nd	Clarence E. Williams	Democrat
	3rd	Thomas B. Allanson	Democrat
Onondaga	1st	James Geddes	Republican
	2nd	Elbert O. Farrar*	Republican
	3rd	John Lighton*	Democrat
Ontario		Frank Rice	Democrat	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
Orange	1st	J. Chauncey Odell	Democrat
Orange	2nd	Jacob H. Dimmick	Democrat
Orleans		Henry M. Hard*	Republican
Oswego	1st	William A. Poucher*	Democrat
Oswego	2nd	Byron Helm*	Republican
Otsego	1st	William Caryl Ely	Democrat	Chairman of Petitions of Aliens
Otsego	2nd	Hartford D. Nelson	Democrat
Putnam		James Wilton Brooks	Republican
Queens	1st	Louis K. Church	Democrat
Queens	2nd	George E. Bulmer	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	William V. Cleary	Democrat
	2nd	Richard A. Derrick*	Republican	unsuccessfully contested by Isaac L. Van Vorst[12] and [13]
	3rd	Rufus Sweet*	Democrat
Richmond		Erastus Brooks*	Democrat
Rockland		William H. Thompson	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	Abel Godard*	Republican
	2nd	Morell D. Beckwith	Republican
	3rd	George Z. Erwin*	Republican
Saratoga	1st	William B. Consalus	Republican
Saratoga	2nd	Henry S. Clement	Ind. Rep.
Schenectady		Christopher O. Hamlin	Republican
Schoharie		Hadley Snyder	Democrat
Schuyler		Adrian Tuttle	Democrat
Seneca		Patrick J. Rogers	Democrat
Steuben	1st	Orange S. Searl*	Democrat
Steuben	2nd	Andrew B. Craig	Democrat
Suffolk		Edwin Bailey	Democrat
Sullivan		George B. Childs	Democrat
Tioga		Myron B. Ferris	Democrat
Tompkins		John E. Cady	Democrat
Ulster	1st	Thomas H. Tremper	Republican
	2nd	David M. De Witt	Democrat
	3rd	Thomas E. Benedict*	Democrat
Warren		Lorenzo R. Locke	Republican
Washington	1st	Robert Armstrong, Jr.*	Republican
Washington	2nd	George Northup*	Democrat
Wayne	1st	Oscar Weed*	Republican
Wayne	2nd	Leman Hotchkiss	Democrat	unsuccessfully contested by William E. Greenwood (R);[14][15]
Westchester	1st	Edwin R. Keyes*	Democrat
	2nd	Samuel W. Johnson	Democrat
	3rd	John Hoag	Democrat
Wyoming		Henry N. Page*	Republican
Yates		Stafford C. Cleveland	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Walter H. Bunn
Sergeant-at-Arms: James H. Delaney
Doorkeeper: Jabez C. Pierce
First Assistant Doorkeeper: Edward Hinch
Second Assistant Doorkeeper: Edward Brodie
Stenographer: Spencer C. Rogers

Notes

Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.
LEGISLATORS AT WORK in NYT on January 3, 1883
SOME DEMOCRATIC METHODS in The New York Times on March 15, 1883
Daniel P. Winne, son of assemblyman Peter W. Winne (in 1831), and brother of assemblyman Richard Winne (in 1858)
see WHO SHALL HAVE THE SEAT in NYT on February 17, 1883
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 609f)
see TAMMANY'S NEW SCHEME in NYT on March 30, 1883
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 614–619)
Alfred Hodges (born 1846), son of assemblyman Andrew B. Hodges (in 1869); great-grandson of Congressman John Hathorn
The majority of seven members (3 Democrats and 4 Republicans) of the Committee on Elections submitted a report in favor of Sprague (R), concluding that a mistake was made while transcribing the returns; a minority of two (both Democrats) submitted a report in favor of Bliss (D). The minority report was adopted on March 8 by a vote of 67 to 52; see SPRAGUE REFUSED A SEAT in NYT on March 9, 1883
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 606–609)
see IN ASSEMBLY AND SENATE in NYT on March 17, 1883
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 610ff)
see IN ASSEMBLY AND SENATE in NYT on March 17, 1883
A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 612ff)

Sources

Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; see pg. 276 for Senate districts; pg. 291 for senators; pg. 298–304 for Assembly districts; and pg. 381f for assemblymen)
Sketches of the Members of the Legislatures in The Evening Journal Almanac (1883)
THE NEXT ASSEMBLY in NYT on November 9, 1882
CHAPIN FOR SPEAKER in NYT on January 2, 1883

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[1] Except New York City where the wards were apportioned into election districts, and then some whole wards and some election districts of other wards were gerrymandered together into Assembly districts.

[2] LEGISLATORS AT WORK in NYT on January 3, 1883

[3] SOME DEMOCRATIC METHODS in The New York Times on March 15, 1883

[4] Daniel P. Winne, son of assemblyman Peter W. Winne (in 1831), and brother of assemblyman Richard Winne (in 1858)

[5] see WHO SHALL HAVE THE SEAT in NYT on February 17, 1883

[6] A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 609f)

[7] see TAMMANY'S NEW SCHEME in NYT on March 30, 1883

[8] A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 614–619)

[9] Alfred Hodges (born 1846), son of assemblyman Andrew B. Hodges (in 1869); great-grandson of Congressman John Hathorn

[10] The majority of seven members (3 Democrats and 4 Republicans) of the Committee on Elections submitted a report in favor of Sprague (R), concluding that a mistake was made while transcribing the returns; a minority of two (both Democrats) submitted a report in favor of Bliss (D). The minority report was adopted on March 8 by a vote of 67 to 52; see SPRAGUE REFUSED A SEAT in NYT on March 9, 1883

[11] A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 606–609)

[12] see IN ASSEMBLY AND SENATE in NYT on March 17, 1883

[13] A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 610ff)

[14] see IN ASSEMBLY AND SENATE in NYT on March 17, 1883

[15] A Compilation of Cases of Contested Elections to Seats in the Assembly of the State of New York (1899; pg. 612ff)