113th New York State Legislature
# 113th New York State Legislature

The 113th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to May 9, 1890, during the sixth year of David B. Hill'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, 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 two factions: Tammany Hall and the "County Democracy". The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated state tickets.

## Elections

The New York state election, 1889 was held on November 5. All six statewide elective office up for election was carried by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Democrats 506,000; Republicans 485,000; Prohibition 27,000; and Greenback 1,000.

## Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1890; and adjourned on May 9.

James W. Husted (R) was again elected Speaker, against William F. Sheehan (D).

Jacob Sloat Fassett (R) was re-elected President pro tempore of the State Senate.

## 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. Patrick H. McCarren, George F. Roesch, Harvey J. Donaldson, Charles T. Saxton and Greenleaf S. Van Gorder changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

| District | Senator | Party | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1st | Edward Hawkins | Democrat | |
| 2nd | John C. Jacobs | Democrat | |
| 3rd | James W. Birkett | Republican | |
| 4th | Patrick H. McCarren* | Democrat | |
| 5th | William L. Brown | Tammany Dem. | |
| 6th | John F. Ahearn | County Dem. | |
| 7th | George F. Roesch* | Tammany Dem. | |
| 8th | Lispenard Stewart | Republican | |
| 9th | Charles A. Stadler* | Tammany Dem. | re-elected |
| 10th | Jacob A. Cantor* | Tammany Dem. | re-elected |
| 11th | Eugene S. Ives* | Tammany Dem. | re-elected |
| 12th | William H. Robertson* | Republican | re-elected |
| 13th | William P. Richardson | Republican | |
| 14th | John J. Linson* | Democrat | re-elected |
| 15th | Gilbert A. Deane* | Republican | re-elected |
| 16th | Michael F. Collins* | Democrat | re-elected; contested by James C. Rogers (R) |
| 17th | Norton Chase | Democrat | contested by George H. Treadwell (R) |
| 18th | Harvey J. Donaldson* | Republican | |
| 19th | Louis W. Emerson | Republican | |
| 20th | George Z. Erwin* | Republican | re-elected |
| 21st | George B. Sloan* | Republican | re-elected |
| 22nd | Henry J. Coggeshall* | Republican | re-elected |
| 23rd | Titus Sheard | Republican | |
| 24th | Edmund O'Connor | Republican | |
| 25th | Francis Hendricks* | Republican | re-elected |
| 26th | Thomas Hunter | Republican | |
| 27th | J. Sloat Fassett* | Republican | re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore |
| 28th | Charles T. Saxton* | Republican | |
| 29th | Donald McNaughton* | Democrat | re-elected |
| 30th | Greenleaf S. Van Gorder* | Republican | |
| 31st | John Laughlin* | Republican | re-elected |
| 32nd | Commodore P. Vedder* | Republican | re-elected |

### Employees

* Clerk: John S. Kenyon
* Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles V. Schram
* Doorkeeper: Edward R. Gibbons
* Stenographer: George H. Thornton

## State Assembly

### Assemblymen

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

| District | District | Assemblymen | Party | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Albany | 1st | Michael J. Nolan | Democrat | |
| Albany | 2nd | William B. Page | Republican | |
| Albany | 3rd | Galen R. Hitt* | Democrat | |
| Albany | 4th | Michael C. Gillice | Democrat | contested; seat vacated |
| Albany | 4th | William Burton LeRoy | Republican | seated on April 15 |
| Allegany | Allegany | Addison S. Thompson | Republican | |
| Broome | Broome | Israel T. Deyo | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 1st | Burton B. Lewis | Republican | |
| Cattaraugus | 2nd | James S. Whipple* | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 1st | George W. Dickinson | Republican | |
| Cayuga | 2nd | Leander Fitts* | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 1st | S. Frederick Nixon* | Republican | |
| Chautauqua | 2nd | George E. Towne* | Republican | |
| Chemung | Chemung | Robert P. Bush* | Democrat | |
| Chenango | Chenango | Edgar A. Pearsall* | Republican | |
| Clinton | Clinton | Alfred Guibord | Republican | |
| Columbia | Columbia | Aaron B. Gardenier | Republican | |
| Cortland | Cortland | Rufus T. Peck* | Republican | |
| Delaware | Delaware | James Ballantine | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 1st | Willard H. Mase* | Republican | |
| Dutchess | 2nd | Johnston de Peyster* | Republican | |
| Erie | 1st | William F. Sheehan* | Democrat | Minority Leader |
| Erie | 2nd | Matthias Endres* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 3rd | Leroy Andrus* | Republican | |
| Erie | 4th | Henry H. Guenther* | Democrat | |
| Erie | 5th | William B. Currier | Republican | |
| Essex | Essex | Thomas J. Treadway* | Republican | |
| Franklin | Franklin | William C. Stevens* | Republican | |
| Fulton and Hamilton | Fulton and Hamilton | John Christie | Republican | |
| Genesee | Genesee | Francis T. Miller | Republican | |
| Greene | Greene | Omar V. Sage | Democrat | |
| Herkimer | Herkimer | John D. Henderson | Democrat | |
| Jefferson | 1st | Henry J. Lane* | Republican | |
| Jefferson | 2nd | Isaac Mitchell | Republican | |
| Kings | 1st | Hugh A. McTernan | Democrat | |
| Kings | 2nd | Bernard J. McBride | Democrat | |
| Kings | 3rd | John Cooney | Democrat | |
| Kings | 4th | John J. O'Connor | Democrat | |
| Kings | 5th | John Kelly* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 6th | William E. Shields | Democrat | |
| Kings | 7th | Adam Schaaff* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 8th | William Blanchfield* | Democrat | |
| Kings | 9th | George Gretsinger | Republican | |
| Kings | 10th | Thomas F. Byrnes | Democrat | |
| Kings | 11th | George L. Weed | Republican | |
| Kings | 12th | Charles J. Kurth | Republican | |
| Lewis | Lewis | LeRoy Crawford | Republican | |
| Livingston | Livingston | Elias H. Davis | Republican | |
| Madison | Madison | Samuel R. Mott | Republican | |
| Monroe | 1st | Frank M. Jones | Republican | |
| Monroe | 2nd | (P. Andrew Sullivan) | Democrat | did not take his seat; death announced on January 15 |
| Monroe | 2nd | Robert Courtney | | elected to fill vacancy; seated on February 26 |
| Monroe | 3rd | Edwin A. Loder* | Republican | died on June 5, 1890 |
| Montgomery | Montgomery | John Knox Stewart | Republican | |
| New York | 1st | Patrick H. Duffy* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 2nd | Timothy D. Sullivan* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 3rd | James A. Monaghan | County Dem. | |
| New York | 4th | Thomas Brady | County Dem. | |
| New York | 5th | Dominick F. Mullaney* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 6th | Gustav Menninger | County Dem. | |
| New York | 7th | Francis V. King* | Republican | |
| New York | 8th | Philip Wissig | County Dem. | |
| New York | 9th | John Martin* | Democrat | |
| New York | 10th | William Sohmer | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 11th | William N. Hoag | Republican | |
| New York | 12th | Moses Dinkelspiel* | County Dem./Rep. | |
| New York | 13th | Frederick S. Gibbs* | Republican | |
| New York | 14th | William Sulzer | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 15th | Frederick Haffner* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 16th | Walter G. Byrne | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 17th | John Kerrigan* | Democrat | |
| New York | 18th | Stephen J. O'Hare | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 19th | John Connelly* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 20th | Myer J. Stein | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 21st | Richard J. Lewis | Republican | |
| New York | 22nd | Joseph Blumenthal* | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 23rd | George P. Webster | Tammany Dem. | |
| New York | 24th | Christopher C. Clarke* | Tammany Dem. | |
| Niagara | 1st | Ruthven Kill | Democrat | |
| Niagara | 2nd | J. Marville Harwood* | Democrat | |
| Oneida | 1st | James K. O'Connor | Republican | |
| Oneida | 2nd | James L. Dempsey | Democrat | |
| Oneida | 3rd | Russell S. Johnson | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 1st | Howard G. White | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 2nd | Willis B. Burns | Republican | |
| Onondaga | 3rd | Ignatius Sawmiller | Republican | |
| Ontario | Ontario | Sanford W. Abbey | Democrat | |
| Orange | 1st | John C. Adams* | Republican | |
| Orange | 2nd | George W. Greene* | Democrat | |
| Orleans | Orleans | Wallace L'Hommedieu | Republican | |
| Oswego | 1st | Nevada N. Stranahan | Republican | |
| Oswego | 2nd | Wilbur H. Selleck | Republican | |
| Otsego | 1st | Oscar F. Lane | Democrat | |
| Otsego | 2nd | Nathan Bridges | Republican | |
| Putnam | Putnam | Hamilton Fish II | Republican | |
| Queens | 1st | Solomon S. Townsend* | Democrat | |
| Queens | 2nd | Henry C. Johnson | Republican | |
| Rensselaer | 1st | James M. Riley | Democrat | |
| Rensselaer | 2nd | Joseph S. Saunders* | Republican | |
| Rensselaer | 3rd | John W. McKnight | Democrat | contested by James S. Rowley (R) |
| Richmond | Richmond | Daniel T. Cornell | Democrat | |
| Rockland | Rockland | Arthur S. Tompkins | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 1st | N. Martin Curtis* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 2nd | William H. Kimball* | Republican | |
| St. Lawrence | 3rd | William Bradford | Republican | |
| Saratoga | 1st | Cornelius R. Sheffer | Republican | |
| Saratoga | 2nd | Frank M. Boyce | Democrat | |
| Schenectady | Schenectady | George W. Van Vranken | Democrat | |
| Schoharie | Schoharie | Alonzo B. Coons | Democrat | |
| Schuyler | Schuyler | Charles T. Willis | Republican | |
| Seneca | Seneca | John H. Stevens | Democrat | |
| Steuben | 1st | Peter B. Pealer | Democrat | |
| Steuben | 2nd | Milo M. Acker* | Republican | Chairman of Judiciary |
| Suffolk | Suffolk | James H. Pierson | Republican | |
| Sullivan | Sullivan | William R. Rose | Republican | |
| Tioga | Tioga | Abram I. Decker* | Republican | |
| Tompkins | Tompkins | Nelson Stevens | Republican | |
| Ulster | 1st | James H. Everett | Republican | |
| Ulster | 2nd | Jacob Rice* | Democrat | |
| Ulster | 3rd | George H. Bush* | Democrat | |
| Warren | Warren | Scott Barton* | Republican | |
| Washington | 1st | Charles W. Larmon* | Republican | |
| Washington | 2nd | Albert Johnson | Republican | |
| Wayne | 1st | John P. Bennett | Republican | |
| Wayne | 2nd | Richard P. Groat* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 1st | J. Irving Burns | Republican | |
| Westchester | 2nd | Bradford Rhodes* | Republican | |
| Westchester | 3rd | James W. Husted* | Republican | elected Speaker |
| Wyoming | Wyoming | I. Sam Johnson | Republican | |
| Yates | Yates | Calvin J. Huson | Democrat | |

### Employees

* Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
* Sergeant-at-Arms: James H. Manville
* Doorkeeper: Homer B. Webb
* Stenographer: Isaac H. Smith
