126th New York State Legislature

126th New York State Legislature
126th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (1900)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1 – December 31, 1903
Senate
Members	50
President	Lt. Gov. Frank W. Higgins (R)
Temporary President	John Raines (R)
Party control	Republican (28-22)
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	S. Frederick Nixon (R)
Party control	Republican (89-61)
Sessions
1st
1st	January 7 – April 23, 1903

The 126th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to April 23, 1903, during the third year of Benjamin B. Odell Jr.'s governorship, in Albany.

Background

Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1894, 50 Senators and 150 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 (twelve districts), Kings County (seven districts), Erie County (three districts) and Monroe County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of contiguous area, all within the same county.

At this time there were two major political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party, the Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party, and a "Liberal Democratic" faction also nominated tickets.

Elections

The New York state election, 1902, was held on November 4. Gov. Benjamin B. Odell Jr. was re-elected; and State Senator Frank W. Higgins was elected Lieutenant Governor; both Republicans. Of the other six statewide elective offices up for election, four were carried by the Republicans and two by the Democrats. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor, was: Republicans 665,000; Democrats 656,000; Social Democrats 23,000; Prohibition 20,000; Socialist Labor 16,000; and Liberal Democrats 2,000.

Sessions

The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 7, 1903; and adjourned on April 23.

S. Frederick Nixon (R) was re-elected Speaker.

John Raines (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate with 25 votes for and 24 against him. Republican senators Edgar T. Brackett, Walter L. Brown and Nathaniel A. Elsberg voted against Raines.[1]

On January 20, the Legislature re-elected Thomas C. Platt (R) to a second term as U.S. Senator from New York, for a six-year term beginning on March 4, 1903.[2]

State Senate

Districts

1st District: Richmond and Suffolk counties
2nd District: Queens and Nassau counties
3rd District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
4th District: 7th, 13th, 19th and 21st Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
5th District: 8th, 10th, 12th and 30th Ward of Brooklyn, and the annexed former Town of Gravesend, as constituted in 1894
6th District: 9th, 11th, 20th and 22nd Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
7th District: 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
8th District: 23rd, 24th, 25th and 29th Ward of Brooklyn; and the annexed former Town of Flatlands, as constituted in 1894
9th District: 18th, 26th, 27th and 28th Ward of Brooklyn, as constituted in 1894
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st District: Parts of the City of New York, defined geographically by their bordering streets, regardless of Wards or Assembly districts
22nd District: Westchester County
23rd District: Orange and Rockland counties
24th District: Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam and counties
25th District: Greene and Ulster counties
26th District: Chenango, Delaware and Sullivan counties
27th District: Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties
28th District: Saratoga, Schenectady and Washington counties
29th District: Albany County
30th District: Rensselaer County
31st District: Clinton, Essex and Warren counties
32nd District: Franklin and St. Lawrence counties
33rd District: Otsego and Herkimer counties
34th District: Oneida County
35th District: Jefferson and Lewis counties
36th District: Onondaga County
37th District: Oswego and Madison counties
38th District: Broome, Cortland and Tioga counties
39th District: Cayuga and Seneca counties
40th District: Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins counties
41st District: Steuben and Yates counties
42nd District: Ontario and Wayne counties
43rd District: 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Brighton, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Menden, Penfield, Perinton, Pittsford, Rush and Webster, in Monroe County
44th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 19th and 20th Ward of Rochester; and the towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and Wheatland, in Monroe County
45th District: Genesee, Niagara and Orleans counties
46th District: Allegany, Livingston and Wyoming counties
47th District: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Ward of Buffalo
48th District: 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th Ward of Buffalo
49th District: 17th, 18th and 25th Ward of the City of Buffalo; and all area in Erie County outside Buffalo
50th District: Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties

Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present-day City of New York. The Eastern part of Queens County (the non-consolidated part) was separated in 1899 as Nassau County. Parts of the 1st and 2nd Assembly districts of Westchester County were annexed by New York City in 1895, and became part of the Borough of the Bronx in 1898.

Members

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Luke A. Keenan, Jotham P. Allds and Albert T. Fancher changed from the Assembly to the Senate.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Edwin Bailey Jr.	Democrat
2nd	Luke A. Keenan*	Democrat
3rd	Thomas H. Cullen*	Democrat
4th	Thomas C. Whitlock	Democrat
5th	James H. McCabe*	Democrat
6th	Walter C. Burton	Democrat
7th	Patrick H. McCarren*	Democrat
8th	Henry Marshall*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
9th	Joseph Wagner*	Democrat
10th	Daniel J. Riordan	Democrat
11th	John C. Fitzgerald	Democrat
12th	Samuel J. Foley*	Democrat
13th	Bernard F. Martin*	Democrat
14th	Thomas F. Grady*	Democrat	Minority Leader
15th	Nathaniel A. Elsberg*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
16th	vacant		Senator-elect Patrick F. Trainor (D) died on December 25, 1902
16th	Peter J. Dooling	Democrat	elected on January 27, 1903, to fill vacancy[3]
17th	George W. Plunkitt*	Democrat
18th	Victor J. Dowling*	Democrat
19th	John W. Russell	Democrat
20th	James J. Frawley	Democrat
21st	John A. Hawkins	Democrat
22nd	Charles P. McClelland	Democrat	seat vacated on August 21, upon appointment to the Board of General Appraisers
23rd	Louis F. Goodsell*	Republican	Chairman of Miscellaneous Corporations
24th	Henry S. Ambler*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
25th	Frank J. Lefevre	Republican	Chairman of Revision
26th	Jotham P. Allds*	Republican
27th	Spencer K. Warnick	Republican	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
28th	Edgar T. Brackett*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
29th	James B. McEwan*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
30th	William D. Barnes*	Republican	Chairman of Penal Institutions
31st	Spencer G. Prime*	Republican	Chairman of Banks
32nd	George R. Malby*	Republican	Chairman of Finance
33rd	Walter L. Brown	Republican	Chairman of Engrossed Bills
34th	William Townsend	Democrat
35th	Elon R. Brown*	Republican	Chairman of Forest, Fish and Game
36th	Horace White*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
37th	Francis H. Gates	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
38th	George E. Green*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
39th	Benjamin M. Wilcox*	Republican	Chairman of Railroads
40th	Edwin C. Stewart*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
41st	Franklin D. Sherwood*	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
42nd	John Raines*	Republican	elected President pro tempore; Chairman of Rules
43rd	Merton E. Lewis*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
44th	William W. Armstrong*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
45th	Irving L'Hommedieu	Republican	Chairman of Trades and Manufactures
46th	Frederick C. Stevens	Republican	Chairman of Roads and Bridges
47th	Henry W. Hill*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
48th	Samuel J. Ramsperger*	Democrat
49th	George Allen Davis*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
50th	Albert T. Fancher*	Republican	Chairman of Indian Affairs

Employees

Clerk: James S. Whipple
Sergeant-at-Arms: Charles R. Hotaling
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: William W. Adams
Doorkeeper: John E. Gorss
Assistant Doorkeeper: Charles H. Bernard
Stenographer: A. B. Sackett
Assistant Clerk: Lafayette B. Gleason
Journal Clerk: Ernest A. Fay
Index Clerk: A. Miner Wellman

State Assembly

Assemblymen

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District		Assemblymen	Party	Notes
Albany	1st	Charles W. Mead	Republican
	2nd	Abram S. Coon*	Republican	Chairman of Printed and Engrossed Bills
	3rd	William V. Cooke	Democrat
	4th	William J. Grattan	Republican
Allegany		Jesse S. Phillips*	Republican	Chairman of Codes
Broome	1st	James T. Rogers*	Republican	Majority Leader; Chairman of Ways and Means
Broome	2nd	Fred E. Allen*	Republican
Cattaraugus	1st	Theodore Hayden	Republican
Cattaraugus	2nd	James C. Sheldon	Republican
Cayuga	1st	Ernest G. Treat*	Republican	Chairman of State Prisons
Cayuga	2nd	Charles J. Hewitt*	Republican
Chautauqua	1st	J. Samuel Fowler*	Republican	Chairman of General Laws
Chautauqua	2nd	S. Frederick Nixon*	Republican	re-elected Speaker; Chairman of Rules
Chemung		Sherman Moreland	Republican
Chenango		Edgar A. Pearsall	Republican
Clinton		H. Wallace Knapp	Republican
Columbia		Edward W. Scovill	Republican
Cortland		Henry A. Dickinson*	Republican	Chairman of Taxation and Retrenchment
Delaware		James R. Cowan*	Republican
Dutchess	1st	John T. Smith*	Republican	Chairman of Banks
Dutchess	2nd	Francis G. Landon*	Republican	Chairman of Public Education
Erie	1st	John H. Bradley*	Democrat
	2nd	Robert L. Cox	Republican
	3rd	Anthony F. Burke*	Democrat
	4th	Charles V. Lynch	Democrat
	5th	Charles W. Hinson	Democrat
	6th	George Ruehl*	Republican
	7th	John K. Patton*	Republican	Chairman of Canals
	8th	Elijah Cook*	Republican	Chairman of Privileges and Elections
Essex		James M. Graeff*	Republican	Chairman of Agriculture
Franklin		Halbert D. Stevens*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Villages
Fulton and Hamilton		Clarence W. Smith*	Republican
Genesee		S. Percy Hooker*	Republican	Chairman of Indian Affairs
Greene		Charles E. Nichols	Republican
Herkimer		Samuel M. Allston*	Republican	Chairman of Fisheries and Game
Jefferson	1st	William A. Denison	Republican
Jefferson	2nd	James A. Outterson*	Republican
Kings	1st	John Hill Morgan*	Republican	Chairman of Judiciary
	2nd	John McKeown*	Democrat
	3rd	James J. McInerney*	Democrat
	4th	John E. Bullwinkel	Democrat
	5th	Fortescue C. Metcalfe	Democrat
	6th	Frank J. Ulrich	Democrat
	7th	William Keegan	Democrat
	8th	John C. L. Daly*	Democrat
	9th	James J. Kehoe	Democrat
	10th	Francis J. Byrne	Democrat
	11th	William S. Shanahan	Democrat
	12th	John F. Kearney	Democrat
	13th	Thomas F. Mathews	Democrat
	14th	John B. Ferre*	Democrat
	15th	Harry H. Dale*	Democrat
	16th	Gustavus C. Weber*	Republican
	17th	Edward C. Dowling	Republican
	18th	Jacob D. Remsen*	Republican	Chairman of Commerce and Navigation
	19th	John Wolf*	Democrat
	20th	Louis J. Zettler	Democrat
	21st	Edward A. Miller	Democrat
Lewis		Lewis H. Stiles*	Republican
Livingston		William Y. Robinson	Republican
Madison		Avery M. Hoadley*	Republican	Chairman of Public Institutions
Monroe	1st	Martin Davis*	Republican	Chairman of Federal Relations
	2nd	George H. Smith*	Republican
	3rd	Eugene J. Dwyer	Republican
	4th	John Pallace Jr.	Democrat
Montgomery		John W. Candee*	Republican
New York	1st	Andrew J. Doyle	Democrat
	2nd	Joseph P. Bourke*	Democrat
	3rd	Dominick F. Mullaney	Democrat
	4th	William H. Burns*	Democrat
	5th	Edward R. Finch*	Republican
	6th	Harry E. Oxford*	Democrat
	7th	Peter P. Sherry	Democrat
	8th	Isidor Cohn	Democrat
	9th	Richard J. Butler	Democrat
	10th	John F. McCullough*	Democrat
	11th	Hugh Dolan	Democrat
	12th	Edward Rosenstein	Democrat
	13th	John C. Hackett	Democrat
	14th	Henry W. Doll*	Democrat
	15th	Thomas J. McManus	Democrat
	16th	Samuel Prince*	Democrat
	17th	John F. Curry	Democrat
	18th	George P. Richter*	Democrat
	19th	Charles F. Bostwick	Republican
	20th	John H. Fitzpatrick*	Democrat
	21st	Frederick E. Wood	Republican
	22nd	William H. Hornidge	Democrat
	23rd	Eugene J. McCarthy	Democrat
	24th	Leo P. Ulmann*	Democrat
	25th	Howard Conkling	Republican	previously a member from Warren Co.
	26th	Myron Sulzberger*	Democrat
	27th	George B. Agnew	Republican
	28th	John T. Dooling*	Democrat
	29th	George B. Clark	Republican
	30th	Gotthardt A. Litthauer*	Democrat
	31st	Lewis A. Abrams	Democrat
	32nd	Matthew F. Neville*	Democrat
	33rd	James O. Farrell	Democrat
	34th	William J. Ellis	Democrat
	35th	Peter J. Everett	Democrat
Niagara	1st	Joseph M. Hoffman	Democrat
Niagara	2nd	John H. Leggett*	Republican	Chairman of Claims
Oneida	1st	Thomas A. Mortimer	Democrat
	2nd	Fred J. Brill*	Republican
	3rd	John C. Evans	Republican
Onondaga	1st	James F. Williams*	Republican
	2nd	Frederick D. Traub*	Republican	Chairman of Public Printing
	3rd	Martin L. Cadin*	Republican
	4th	Fred W. Hammond*	Republican	Chairman of Revision
Ontario		Jean L. Burnett*	Republican	Chairman of Affairs of Cities
Orange	1st	John Orr*	Republican	Chairman of Unfinished Business
Orange	2nd	Louis Bedell*	Republican	Chairman of Railroads
Orleans		Charles S. Bridgeman	Republican
Oswego	1st	Thomas D. Lewis*	Republican	Chairman of Insurance
Oswego	2nd	Thomas M. Costello*	Republican	Chairman of labor and Industries
Otsego		John B. Conkling*	Republican
Putnam		John R. Yale*	Republican
Queens	1st	Joseph Sullivan	Democrat
Queens	2nd	Francis X. Duer*	Democrat
Queens and Nassau		George W. Doughty*	Republican	Chairman of Internal Affairs
Rensselaer	1st	John M. Chambers*	Republican	Chairman of Charitable and Religious Societies
	2nd	John J. McCarthy	Democrat
	3rd	Charles W. Reynolds*	Republican	Chairman of Trades and Manufactures
Richmond		Charles J. McCormack	Democrat
Rockland		Thomas Finegan	Democrat
St. Lawrence	1st	Charles S. Plank*	Republican	Chairman of Excise
St. Lawrence	2nd	Edwin A. Merritt Jr.*	Republican
Saratoga		George H. Whitney	Republican
Schenectady		William W. Wemple	Republican
Schoharie		George M. Palmer*	Democrat	Minority Leader
Schuyler		Olin T. Nye*	Republican	Chairman of Public Health
Seneca		Daniel W. Moran*	Republican
Steuben	1st	Frank C. Platt*	Republican	Chairman of Soldiers' Home
Steuben	2nd	Gordon M. Patchin*	Republican
Suffolk	1st	Willis A. Reeve*	Republican
Suffolk	2nd	Orlando Hubbs	Republican
Sullivan		John F. Simpson	Republican
Tioga		Edwin S. Hanford*	Republican	Chairman of Public Lands and Forestry
Tompkins		George E. Monroe*	Republican
Ulster	1st	Charles T. Coutant	Republican
Ulster	2nd	Solomon P. Thorn	Republican
Warren		Loyal L. Davis	Republican
Washington		William H. Hughes*	Republican	Chairman of Military Affairs
Wayne		Addison P. Smith	Republican
Westchester	1st	John J. Sloane*	Democrat
	2nd	J. Mayhew Wainwright*	Republican
	3rd	James K. Apgar*	Republican	Chairman of Electricity, Gas and Water Supply
Wyoming		Henry J. McNair*	Republican
Yates		Cyrus C. Harvey	Republican

Employees

Clerk: Archie E. Baxter
Sergeant-at-Arms: Frank W. Johnston
Doorkeeper: Benjamin J. Sanger
First Assistant Doorkeeper: Andrew Kehn
Second Assistant Doorkeeper: Daniel Cameron Easton
Stenographer: Henry C. Lammert
Assistant Clerk: Ray B. Smith

Notes

The president pro tempore was elected by resolution. When the Democrats offered a substitute resolution in favor of Minority Leader Thomas F. Grady, Brackett, Brown and Elsberg voted against Grady; when the original resolution was up, they voted with the Democrats against Raines. Raines was elected only because one seat was vacant due to the death of Democrat Patrick F. Trainor. In a full Senate, there would have been a tied vote of 25 to 25, and Raines could not have been elected.
MR. PLATT ELECTED AFTER DENUNCIATION in NYT on January 21, 1903
see DOOLING ELECTED SENATOR in NYT on January 28, 1903

Sources

Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; see pg. 346ff for assemblymen; and 365 for senators)
The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; see pg. 63–103 for senators' bios; between pg. 64 and 65 for senators' portraits; pg. 104–192 for assemblymen's bios; between pg. 128 and 129 for assemblymen's portraits; pg. 326 for senators; and pg. 451 for assemblymen)
REPUBLICANS HOLD THE LEGISLATURE in NYT on November 5, 1902
S. FRED NIXON FOR SPEAKER in NYT on January 7, 1903
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE in NYT on January 8, 1903

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[1] The president pro tempore was elected by resolution. When the Democrats offered a substitute resolution in favor of Minority Leader Thomas F. Grady, Brackett, Brown and Elsberg voted against Grady; when the original resolution was up, they voted with the Democrats against Raines. Raines was elected only because one seat was vacant due to the death of Democrat Patrick F. Trainor. In a full Senate, there would have been a tied vote of 25 to 25, and Raines could not have been elected.

[2] MR. PLATT ELECTED AFTER DENUNCIATION in NYT on January 21, 1903

[3] see DOOLING ELECTED SENATOR in NYT on January 28, 1903