{{Short description|New York state legislative session}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox New York Legislature |number = 113th |image = |imagename = |imagedate = |start = January 1 |end = December 31, 1890 |vp = Lt. Gov. Edward F. Jones (D) |pro tem = Jacob Sloat Fassett (R) |speaker = James W. Husted (R) |senators = 32 |reps = 128 |s-majority = Republican (19-13) |h-majority = Republican (71-57) |sessionnumber1 = 1st |sessionstart1 = January 7 |sessionend1 = May 9, 1890 |previous = 112th |next = 114th }}
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,<ref>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.</ref> 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 1889 New York state election 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=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * 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}}
<small>'''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.</small>
===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.
{| class=wikitable ! District ! Senator ! Party ! Notes |- |1st |Edward Hawkins |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |John C. Jacobs |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |3rd |James W. Birkett |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |4th |Patrick H. McCarren* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |5th |William L. Brown |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |6th |John F. Ahearn |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem. | |- |7th |George F. Roesch* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |8th |Lispenard Stewart |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |9th |Charles A. Stadler* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. |re-elected |- |10th |Jacob A. Cantor* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. |re-elected |- |11th |Eugene S. Ives* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. |re-elected |- |12th |William H. Robertson* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |13th |William P. Richardson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |14th |John J. Linson* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |re-elected |- |15th |Gilbert A. Deane* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |16th |Michael F. Collins* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |re-elected; contested by James C. Rogers (R) |- |17th |Norton Chase |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |contested by George H. Treadwell (R) |- |18th |Harvey J. Donaldson* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |19th |Louis W. Emerson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |20th |George Z. Erwin* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |21st |George B. Sloan* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |22nd |Henry J. Coggeshall* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |23rd |Titus Sheard |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |24th |Edmund O'Connor |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |25th |Francis Hendricks* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |26th |Thomas Hunter |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |27th |J. Sloat Fassett* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected; re-elected President pro tempore |- |28th |Charles T. Saxton* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |29th |Donald McNaughton* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |re-elected |- |30th |Greenleaf S. Van Gorder* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |31st |John Laughlin* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |re-elected |- |32nd |Commodore P. Vedder* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | 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.
{| class=wikitable ! colspan="2" | District ! Assemblymen ! Party ! Notes |- |rowspan="5" | Albany |1st |Michael J. Nolan |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |William B. Page |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |3rd |Galen R. Hitt* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |rowspan="2" | 4th |Michael C. Gillice |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |contested; seat vacated |- |William Burton LeRoy |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |seated on April 15 |- |colspan="2" | Allegany |Addison S. Thompson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Broome |Israel T. Deyo |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Cattaraugus |1st |Burton B. Lewis |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |James S. Whipple* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Cayuga |1st |George W. Dickinson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Leander Fitts* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Chautauqua |1st |S. Frederick Nixon* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |George E. Towne* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Chemung |Robert P. Bush* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Chenango |Edgar A. Pearsall* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Clinton |Alfred Guibord |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Columbia |Aaron B. Gardenier |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Cortland |Rufus T. Peck* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Delaware |James Ballantine |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Dutchess |1st |Willard H. Mase* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Johnston de Peyster* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="5" | Erie |1st |William F. Sheehan* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |Minority Leader |- |2nd |Matthias Endres* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |3rd |Leroy Andrus* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |4th |Henry H. Guenther* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |5th |William B. Currier |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Essex |Thomas J. Treadway* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Franklin |William C. Stevens* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Fulton and Hamilton |John Christie |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Genesee |Francis T. Miller |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Greene |Omar V. Sage |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Herkimer |John D. Henderson<ref>John Dryden Henderson (born 1846), grandson of assemblymen Daniel C. Henderson (in 1827) and Stephen Ayres (in 1836), nephew of assemblyman Dryden Henderson (in 1853)</ref> |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |rowspan="2" | Jefferson |1st |Henry J. Lane* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Isaac Mitchell |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="12" | Kings |1st |Hugh A. McTernan |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |Bernard J. McBride |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |3rd |John Cooney |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |4th |John J. O'Connor |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |5th |John Kelly* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |6th |William E. Shields |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |7th |Adam Schaaff* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |8th |William Blanchfield* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |9th |George Gretsinger |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |10th |Thomas F. Byrnes |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |11th |George L. Weed |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |12th |Charles J. Kurth |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Lewis |LeRoy Crawford |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Livingston |Elias H. Davis |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Madison |Samuel R. Mott |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="4" | Monroe |1st |Frank M. Jones |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | 2nd |(P. Andrew Sullivan) |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |did not take his seat; death announced on January 15 |- |Robert Courtney |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat<ref>''Jewish Tidings, 14 February 1890, page 6'' https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=jts18900214-01.1.6&srpos=3&e=------189-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Robert+Courtney%22-------Monroe--</ref> |elected February 17 to fill vacancy; seated on February 26 |- |3rd |Edwin A. Loder* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |died on June 5, 1890 |- |colspan="2" | Montgomery |John Knox Stewart |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="24" | New York |1st |Patrick H. Duffy* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |2nd |Timothy D. Sullivan* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |3rd |James A. Monaghan |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem. | |- |4th |Thomas Brady |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem. | |- |5th |Dominick F. Mullaney* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |6th |Gustav Menninger |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem. | |- |7th |Francis V. King* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |8th |Philip Wissig |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem. | |- |9th |John Martin* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |10th |William Sohmer |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |11th |William N. Hoag |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |12th |Moses Dinkelspiel* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | County Dem./Rep. | |- |13th |Frederick S. Gibbs* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |14th |William Sulzer |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |15th |Frederick Haffner* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |16th |Walter G. Byrne |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |17th |John Kerrigan* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |18th |Stephen J. O'Hare |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |19th |John Connelly* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |20th |Myer J. Stein<ref>Myer J. Stein, brother of assemblyman Joseph I. Stein (in 1877)</ref> |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |21st |Richard J. Lewis |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |22nd |Joseph Blumenthal* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |23rd |George P. Webster |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |24th |Christopher C. Clarke* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Tammany Dem. | |- |rowspan="2" | Niagara |1st |Ruthven Kill |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |J. Marville Harwood* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |rowspan="3" | Oneida |1st |James K. O'Connor |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |James L. Dempsey |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |3rd |Russell S. Johnson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="3" | Onondaga |1st |Howard G. White |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Willis B. Burns |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |3rd |Ignatius Sawmiller |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Ontario |Sanford W. Abbey |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |rowspan="2" | Orange |1st |John C. Adams* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |George W. Greene* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Orleans |Wallace L'Hommedieu |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Oswego |1st |Nevada N. Stranahan |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Wilbur H. Selleck |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Otsego |1st |Oscar F. Lane |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |Nathan Bridges |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Putnam |Hamilton Fish II* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Queens |1st |Solomon S. Townsend* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |Henry C. Johnson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="3" | Rensselaer |1st |James M. Riley |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |Joseph S. Saunders* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |3rd |John W. McKnight |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat |contested by James S. Rowley (R)<ref>see [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/11/10/100978083.pdf ''ONE ASSEMBLY SEAT TO BE CONTESTED''] in NYT on November 10, 1889</ref> |- |colspan="2" | Richmond |Daniel T. Cornell |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Rockland |Arthur S. Tompkins |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="3" | St. Lawrence |1st |N. Martin Curtis* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |William H. Kimball* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |3rd |William Bradford |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Saratoga |1st |Cornelius R. Sheffer |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Frank M. Boyce |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Schenectady |George W. Van Vranken |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Schoharie |Alonzo B. Coons |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Schuyler |Charles T. Willis |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Seneca |John H. Stevens |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |rowspan="2" | Steuben |1st |Peter B. Pealer |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |2nd |Milo M. Acker* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |Chairman of Judiciary |- |colspan="2" | Suffolk |James H. Pierson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Sullivan |William R. Rose |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Tioga |Abram I. Decker* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Tompkins |Nelson Stevens |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="3" | Ulster |1st |James H. Everett |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Jacob Rice* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |3rd |George H. Bush* |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |colspan="2" | Warren |Scott Barton* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Washington |1st |Charles W. Larmon* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Albert Johnson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="2" | Wayne |1st |John P. Bennett |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Richard P. Groat* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |rowspan="3" | Westchester |1st |J. Irving Burns |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |2nd |Bradford Rhodes* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |3rd |James W. Husted* |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican |elected Speaker |- |colspan="2" | Wyoming |I. Sam Johnson |{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican | |- |colspan="2" | Yates |Calvin J. Huson |{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democrat | |- |}
===Employees=== * Clerk: Charles A. Chickering * Sergeant-at-Arms: James H. Manville * Doorkeeper: Homer B. Webb * Stenographer: Isaac H. Smith
==Notes== <references/>
==Sources== * [https://archive.org/stream/newyorkredbook00unkngoog#page/n469/mode/1up ''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. 507f for assemblymen) * [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-sand/the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1890-nsl/page-36-the-evening-journal--almanac-volume-1890-nsl.shtml Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature] in ''The Evening Journal Almanac'' (1890)
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