110th New York State Legislature

The 110th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to May 26, 1887, during the third year of David B. Hill's governorship, in Albany.

110th New York State Legislature
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New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1887
Senate
Members	32
President	Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones (D)
Temporary President	Edmund L. Pitts (R)
Party control	Republican (20-12)
Assembly
Members	128
Speaker	James W. Husted (R)
Party control	Republican (74-54)
Sessions
1st January 4 – May 26, 1887

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 three Democratic factions (Tammany Hall, "Irving Hall" and the "County Democrats") re-united, and nominated joint candidates in most districts. The Prohibition Party and the Greenback Party also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1886 was held on November 2. The only statewide elective offices up for election was carried by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Judge of the Court of Appeals, was: Democrats 468,000; Republicans 461,000; Prohibition 36,000; and Greenback 2,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 4, 1887; and adjourned on May 26.

James W. Husted (R) was re-elected Speaker.

On January 20, the Legislature elected Frank Hiscock (R) to succeed Warner Miller (R) as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1887.

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. Modern-day Nassau County was part of Queens County, and modern-day Bronx County was divided between New York County west of the Bronx River and Westchester County east of it.

Members

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

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Edward F. Fagan*	Democrat
2nd	James F. Pierce*	Democrat
3rd	Stephen M. Griswold*	Republican
4th	Jacob Worth*	Republican
5th	Michael C. Murphy*	Democrat
6th	Edward F. Reilly*	Democrat
7th	James Daly*	Democrat
8th	Thomas C. Dunham*	Democrat
9th	John J. Cullen*	Democrat
10th	William C. Traphagen*	Democrat
11th	George W. Plunkitt*	Democrat
12th	Henry C. Nelson*	Democrat
13th	Henry R. Low*	Republican
14th	Henry C. Connelly*	Republican
15th	Jacob W. Hoysradt*	Republican
16th	Albert C. Comstock*	Republican
17th	Amasa J. Parker, Jr.*	Democrat
18th	Edward Wemple*	Democrat	on November 8, 1887, elected New York State Comptroller
19th	Rowland C. Kellogg*	Republican
20th	Charles L. Knapp*	Republican
21st	George B. Sloan*	Republican
22nd	Henry J. Coggeshall*	Republican
23rd	John E. Smith*	Republican
24th	Matthew W. Marvin*	Republican
25th	Francis Hendricks*	Republican
26th	Charles F. Barager*	Republican
27th	J. Sloat Fassett*	Republican
28th	John Raines*	Republican
29th	Edmund L. Pitts*	Republican	President pro tempore
30th	Edward C. Walker*	Republican
31st	Daniel H. McMillan*	Republican
32nd	Commodore P. Vedder*	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: John W. Vrooman
• Assistant Clerk: John S. Kenyon[2]
• Sergeant-at-Arms: James C. Murray
• Doorkeeper: John H. Houck
• Stenographer: Harris A. Corell

State Assembly

Assemblymen

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

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Horace T. Devereux	Democrat
	2nd	Vreeland H. Youngman	Republican
	3rd	William J. Hill	Democrat
	4th	John T. Gorman	Democrat
Allegany		Washington Moses	Republican
Broome		Isaac C. Edson*	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Frederick W. Kruse*	Republican
	2nd	Erastus S. Ingersoll*	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Frank M. Parsons*	Republican
	2nd	Coral C. White	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	Dana P. Horton	Republican
	2nd	George H. Frost	Republican
Chemung		Robert P. Bush*	Democrat
Chenango		Ralph Taylor	Republican
Clinton		George S. Weed	Democrat
Columbia		John C. Hogeboom*[3]	Republican
Cortland		Wayland D. Tisdale	Republican
Delaware		David L. Thomson	Republican
Dutchess	1st	Willard H. Mase	Republican
	2nd	John I. Platt*	Republican
Erie	1st	William F. Sheehan*	Democrat	Minority Leader
	2nd	Frank M. Giese*	Democrat
	3rd	Edward Gallagher*	Republican
	4th	Henry H. Guenther	Democrat
	5th	Edward K. Emery	Republican
Essex		Spencer G. Prime	Republican
Franklin		Floyd J. Hadley*	Republican
Fulton and Hamilton		Alden W. Berry*	Republican
Genesee		Charles A. Seaver*	Republican
Greene		Francis G. Walters	Republican
Herkimer		Patrick H. McEvoy	Republican
Jefferson	1st	Anson S. Thompson	Republican
	2nd	Edward B. Bulkley*	Republican
Kings	1st	Moses J. Wafer*	Democrat
	2nd	William H. McLaughlin*	Democrat
	3rd	Peter K. McCann*	Democrat
	4th	Henry F. Haggerty*	Democrat
	5th	James A. McMahon*	Democrat
	6th	Thomas F. Farrell*	Democrat
	7th	John Reitz	Republican
	8th	John H. Bonnington	Democrat
	9th	Alexander S. Bacon	Republican
	10th	John B. Longley*	Democrat
	11th	James P. Graham	Democrat
	12th	Richard V. B. Newton*	Democrat
Lewis		Rutson Rea*	Republican
Livingston		William Y. Robinson*	Republican
Madison		William S. Leete*	Republican
Monroe	1st	Fletcher A. Defendorf	Democrat
	2nd	Edward W. Maurer	Republican
	3rd	George W. Sime*	Republican
Montgomery		Robert Wemple	Democrat
New York	1st	Daniel E. Finn*	Democrat
	2nd	Timothy D. Sullivan	Tammany Dem.
	3rd	James E. Power*	Democrat
	4th	Jeremiah Hayes*	Democrat
	5th	Michael Brennan*	Tammany Dem.
	6th	William J. McKenna	Democrat
	7th	George H. Henry	Republican
	8th	Charles Smith*	Republican
	9th	John Martin	Democrat
	10th	George F. Langbein	Democrat
	11th	Robert Ray Hamilton*	Republican
	12th	Leonard A. Giegerich	Tammany Dem.
	13th	William P. Mulry	Democrat
	14th	Jacob Kunzenman	Tammany Dem.
	15th	George H. McAdam	Tammany Dem.
	16th	Edward P. Hagan*	Democrat
	17th	William Dalton*	Democrat
	18th	John F. Kenny	Tammany Dem.
	19th	Eugene S. Ives	Democrat
	20th	William H. Hornidge	Tammany Dem.
	21st	Ernest H. Crosby	Republican
	22nd	John F. McIntyre	Democrat
	23rd	Jacob A. Cantor*	Democrat
	24th	John B. Shea*	County Dem.
Niagara	1st	Christian F. Goerss	Republican
	2nd	Peter A. Porter*	Republican
Oneida	1st	Benjamin Hall*	Republican
	2nd	Robert W. Evans*	Republican
	3rd	John C. Davies	Republican
Onondaga	1st	Hector B. Johnson	Republican
	2nd	Alfred E. Stacey*	Republican
	3rd	Thomas McCarthy*[4]	Republican
Ontario		Edward P. Babcock*	Republican
Orange	1st	Robert H. Smith*	Republican
	2nd	George W. Greene*	Democrat
Orleans		Samuel A. Bates*	Republican
Oswego	1st	Henry C. Howe*	Republican
	2nd	Danforth E. Ainsworth*	Republican
Otsego	1st	Lowell S. Henry*	Democrat
	2nd	Frank B. Arnold*	Republican
Putnam		Henry Mabie*	Republican
Queens	1st	Joseph Fitch*	Democrat
	2nd	William J. Hines	Democrat
Rensselaer	1st	Michael F. Collins*	Democrat
	2nd	J. Irving Baucus	Republican
	3rd	James Ryan, Jr.	Democrat
Richmond		Edward A. Moore	Democrat
Rockland		George Dickey*	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	N. Martin Curtis*	Republican
	2nd	William H. Kimball	Republican
	3rd	George Z. Erwin*	Republican
Saratoga	1st	John H. Burke	Democrat
	2nd	Bartlett B. Grippin	Republican
Schenectady		Edward D. Cutler*	Democrat
Schoharie		Emory Stevens	Democrat
Schuyler		Fremont Cole*	Republican
Seneca		William L. Sweet	Republican
Steuben	1st	Azariah C. Brundage	Republican
	2nd	Charles D. Baker*	Republican
Suffolk		Henry A. Reeves	Democrat
Sullivan		Martin A. Smith	Republican
Tioga		Jonathan C. Latimer	Republican
Tompkins		Walter G. Smith	Republican
Ulster	1st	Thomas Maxwell	Republican
	2nd	Willet I. Van Demark	Republican
	3rd	Davis Winne	Democrat
Warren		James C. Eldridge	Republican
Washington	1st	J. Warren Fort	Republican
	2nd	James H. Manville*	Republican
Wayne	1st	Charles T. Saxton	Republican
	2nd	Barnet H. Davis*	Republican
Westchester	1st	J. Irving Burns	Republican
	2nd	Samuel Conover	Democrat
	3rd	James W. Husted*	Republican	elected Speaker
Wyoming		Edward A. Pierce*	Republican
Yates		George R. Cornwell	Republican

Employees

• Clerk: Charles A. Chickering
• Sergeant-at-Arms: Isaac Scott
• Doorkeeper: Michael Maher
• Stenographer: Emory P. Close

Notes

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. "Senate No. 33". Documents of the Senate of the State of New York. Volume II - Nos. 15-34, Inclusive. Albany: The Argus Company. 1887. p. 3.
3. John Clinton Hogeboom (born 1857), grandson of state senator John C. Hogeboom (1801–05)
4. Thomas McCarthy (born 1848), son of Dennis McCarthy

Sources

• The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; see pg. 384f for senate districts; pg. 403 for senators; pg. 410–417 for Assembly districts; and pg. 505f for assemblymen)
• Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac] (1887)