The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-10-15

contractor may be paid fot excavation or en-.
bsnkment, as he may siess Nov. supposing
Yates hear North Capitol sttes,, wheh the
same might be used 40 Milling A. the boundary
q mile on, which would BE- too far 70 cart ~
boundary he has to briug his dirt from soms
other sourss to put y 10 there, could he, IN.
der the contract for that street, receive pay
: question that have not considered. ieouid
not answer II without rejection.
q. You have stated that the contract 10 70 |
one and the same street, A. Yes, sirj IL 10
one contract.
q. Nov suppose instead Of being four streets |
al tss otss ssd e ,ss
then, under sny circ ums tances, iimit,nG It 10 |
,ioa .Sa be e sss
eomm,,siooer. II The eommissionsr was viii.
and NUT mn, u Ito spy o,sss street. Ana n wan
taken. and the distance was too far to haul ii,
/ should think II could be done, and ought 10
o. what velsht. then, do YOU attach to the
woids, I" They shall be paid only for embsnk.
ment or excavation, one or the other, as they
A. That II ths wsy a, ths coptrscts real
o. what il the force OF ii ii, notwitbstsud.
inS that proyision, 4 party may BE- paid for
both, when the contract says he shall not be
pau a WI 'o gh.v. s,,sn Won M ises y ,u,t
a. clearly AZ 1 know how,
"a, And IL II that thew could be bald Tor ex.
csystIon and emcsnsmeot botSi AUoder
oircumsta noes, ID they are compelled TO re-
move the earth, To expeot A contractor TO re.
oumstsnoss would csrtsiniy be eIpectinr con.
tractors to do what they ought not to be 70.
aaoat.s 70 ~ ,a vi pnuss ny -
%, The question mere II. the contract being
In existence. TO deter mine what ms mesnins
OF that contract Is A, Ihaye all along ssid-
prc.ecutionDosw hstever YOU mlsht csii tt
M, Barrett. Iuyestisstion,
Witness. or insssfirstion, has commenced,
under that Contract xouid haze a f.ir, js.s
and equlfsbis, but not 4 legal, claim from the
eorpotstieu for earth oArted ffoa n street OF
tance from n strset 10 q strset 10 unreasons.
BILE, and thisk 40 lnpc:itlcn. I think that
eontrsctef shall rsaoys The earth, say from
NJ street to u street, 10 case that there 10 q
surplus, 10 one that 10 very hard Indeed upon
the contractor, and ought never to have been
under similar circumstances I would not in.
pose that obligation upon them. was so do.
sirous, though, At that time, that there should
to put that clause 10, that il surplus earth was
| removed from X street to M street or q street
that there should be no payment for Its being
sct OF the COUNSEL,
| q. About what did the contract as made
amount to 90 the estimates furnished by Mt.
/ have not the papers here now.
sir. We had no estimate for First street, and
ss sHua TO- 1 s to s"s n.
but my recollection 10 thst the whole came to
over 10000.
that have been made there has slssys been
| two or three times rs much work done as the
payments would covert A. No. sir.
| q. What proportion had yout A. I said
three times the amount Of work done that IL
returned 10 the estimate. l do not know the
amount OF the work done.
q, I have forgotten the exact proportion
you gave last night, but understood you to
say th,t 10 every case there hsd always been
A. Oh, yes, sir, more work. Sa. not . Voc o.
three times more.
the paymenti A. / know nothing about It,
the eentrsstors. nv '' ~ '"'
tion 10 NJ street was io,so2 yards, aud In X
%6,s3o, and the nlling up In @ street l6,tpS
yards, the embsnknent exceeding the excsys
tion In q street, aud the eNcavatio exceed o n
the embsnk ment on X street, and the eKosva
ton exceeding the embankment on NJ street
paid for exesvstion In those three street,
would be To,625 yards. But the excavation
according TO Mr.. Bliss estimate, does exeeet
| | some A,0S1 vArJa, Taking that from 10 al
yards, there rem aims rs $50 yards 10 he pai,
| Tor, the most liberal estimate amounting q
u, 500 90, at II cents yard. The graveling IL
the three streets amounts to s6,Saa yards
Ss,bt3 90 That added to es 500 2s, grading
amounn TO ,s52t9. Now, we should adj
70 thAt. IL eents yafd Ior the t,ose yards
grading which n,h ws' put iato @ street, In eH
be ths SUN totsl mat under my interpretation
} o. M. contract could be given for those three
'H w,ts.,, o~u,,,,
, MI, Barrett. ! will tell you 10 a moment
/ (Aiter making the ealeulAtion)-N6,oto63.
rn mP hnt whst e va pss s's re- and 40 no
! Know put WHAT you may pc correct. nav
) not reekoned in First street at all.
/, S.ae wnM me esumste inst was msd
, would be saved BY giving this contract =
John DonoyanI A.: say that the estimat
that we made was between $500 and ,O0t
, according 20 my reeolleoion and that Is MI
!. Bii,' Iecollection, also. 1hAd conversstio
Q with him to-day.
9 y. 70 you now think the contractors shout
: street Into 9 and fi.,t .treet.i A. said b,
. lore mat that would depend upon eircun
0 stanoe ~ w S,h depend upon whether III
q g. was rot %. ,.yips based Spon putin
v. DIRT from street Into q and First streets
). a; fsMuahS so.
meat IN and Fiat .srsss. .Sso s 70 n
I bh." PHI amounts 20 how mnchI-sil,o9 a %
i A, rhhtl KNOW nothing about
6 khsiheluaes the whole ng-dlrt take
d from massachusett. avenue, and from Seeon
o street, from street east o. Second A. Tn
!. matter nag nothing 70 DO with. ! kno
Il nothing ABOUT u, ana snail answer no que
u lions respecting IT,
., q, wish to inquire, that being the case
x what way above that amount could possibl
p be savedt A. That 10 a matter that you ca
10 | calculate from the figures as well as I can.
II will state here, gentlemen, that An approprI
!. ton, on the aist day Of November, Tor sire
81 alone was made-if I have the figures eorree
'r ly, et,l39 will also state that, for grayeiiI
9. K street from Fourteenth street to Twentie
10 street, six squares, Just one-haIf the distant
re of this contract, the corporation paid near
/, tl2, 900 for graveilng alone,
G. q. 1t has heen sRown here that George y
1t EslIn was the lowest bidder for Nj atreet.
I'd ter Mcnamara for X street, and ] eremiah %
10 teilo for First street, and John Donovan on
Id | street. with the az milan Of Rail- who hId
OF quarter Of q cent below him, John Dopoys
he therefore, was not the lowest bidder on A,
20 street.
I'd Witness Who bid lower than he didl I ,
w not admit the fact that II 10 so shown at Al
but even II 1t were so will state that some
Id those bids were not considered, for resso
Up that, at some future time, II am called sgsI
It, may state to the committee. l prefer o
m doing so at this time, however.
70 q, Now, then, by giving the whole 70
IT streets to mr.. Donoyas, and he being paid I
err each street separately as he has been
a. Witness, beg pardon, / do moi admit I.
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