The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-10-07

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receive any part Of that pay until the work
| was completedt
believe p..csiss, y 4, \, Mad ao Of Law, and
| has been to advance on contrsctsj and that
within the knowledge Of the prosecutor here,
Mr.. Crane: You cannot Ind Any other such
| instance on record In the registers once.
| q. Do you admit being paid In advance OF
| A. No, cir; by no means. I should neither
ask nor seek II, nor was It necessary. The
money advanced was necessary to pay the men, |
| q. The contract provides that he should not |
not have AMI. money under the appropriation |
SS r ses we' money. %h ' soas opinion
about th.ti Don't you consider that advance |
A. / DO not. AZ I say, there iss practice
prevailing In the departments here, and has
been for year. past, by which advances have
contracts that are made contain In them super.
nuities that are entirely ignored. There are
| always large discrcttons.
q. Thea. according to this specification, you
consider you are entitled to be paid before the
completion Of the workt
| to the time the men were at work aud for the
amount Of work done. In this instance the
smount Of work done was largely In excess OF
q. Under the contract were you entitled to
receive pay fot the embankment on q street I
| A. do not acknowledge that we have re-
ceived pay for that. AZ said before, II were
to see the vouchers upon which the payment
". msde, should be able to explain l What
apply to the work done generally upon all four
q. DO you consider that under the contract
street,
A. Decidedly so. 1t wa, acsording to the
practice Of the once In almost every case. The
city was well secured, for we had done much
larger amount Of work, and have to-day, than
Ssoa e Gg ana S we S s
the city as amply secured by having CON-
pleted more work than pay was asked for.
ward, number Of cubic yards embank ment s,2,o,
at II cents, under act act approved Noyem;
Der q, isos, 1907 90" DID you or did you not
A: II that 10 the bill made out BY Mr. Bliss,
that was the voucher upon which that pay
@. Did not the contract read you were not
to be paid for earth taken out OF one street and
"a "A. Ali surplus earth. The whole trouble
| about that hinges upon the Interpretation to
be given as to whether surplus earth 10 meant
or not. l hold 1t refers solely to rurplu.
earth.
q. Was this embankment on q street made
= from earth taken from street,
! A. do not know that.
O. ifit was msde with earth taken from
: street wa. Il proper you should get paid forit
. A. Whenever the work was done, oil course
y | we were to be paid for ".
q. II the embankment on q street was made
Titled d To pay Tor That enssnfaent sesordins
10 The oontf.cti
A. lit WAS not surplu. earth, according to
q the terms OF the contract,w were not entitled
to pay only according to one way OF me asure-
II ment-clther for excavation or embsukment.
d q. Where did you get the dirt OF which that
embsnkment was made
h A. could not tell you that. Twas not there
= 1n rsspopgior in The wsy have
!. o bid the dirt on q street come out OF
.ome other street where the excavation was
, mssci
!, A. iesnnot say where It came IRON. have
nov Sssa nov OF ,SS p.r OF The work ar,hsr
nxsa n two S or thSee times since the com
meneement Of the work
Al o. Do YOU know what became Of all the sur
he piS, earth from X street,
~ ~ 40 not Mr. Gleesoo will he the hes
use b.nd 10 i've inform alton In regard 10 that
~ a. viii read an extract from the contract
m -,
Tor ths 'lm q u cent, FER snS,e ,si nYf adia'
M saSh ~ s TO- nssa es ~ IN boy en- nsu p
~ s so ,,ras,. ssm.a .says \. dsno.i,sd i'm
%P s.eass.ion or emSspSmsS;. a. be may elect
paid for excavation on one street he shall not
- raid hlling anothsrs'rest with the same earth
'" A. That all hinges on the question Of SUI
gu closely.
*. esfih that wa. taken out Of K street was pa
on q street you were not entitled to pay for II
So A, I am no expert, and may be wrong; blu
~, my interpretation Of the contract Is thst afte
On surplus earth we would not be entitled to two
he mes.urements Of ii-onlyt to one, either for es
Ne q. The contract gives you that ideai
~, A. Yes, SIR think 1t is very explicit.
"- q. what right have you to assuine that 20,
s reads the contraryi
49,, a. As I said, II was my Interpretations d
w not assume IT. II It should Trove the COZ
,be upon 1t. The officials are the proper ones 4
Of that is my reading OF the confrset, and thinl
A., on that hangs the whole Of this idea Of NAL
s s.t versation.
ever heard Mr.. Gleeson say, that you had go,
Q, your pay for street, and Intended to keep It
he- A. never said so myself, nor have eve
The fst place, this thing has not been proatsbi,
mi, business at all Wehave been surrounded By
. s difficulties from the beginning, and We hay,
'Ay not congratulated ourselves upon any ad
3 Vances that have been made, nor upon oui
70, present status.
Se Q. DO you know what pay M, John Dono.
ne s f ssSsa or or not S "o anu ""e'' wal
vb A; The rolls viii tell ! do not remember;
~ not consider the question germ,ne to the In
=" vestigation. 4 u Is simply intended to make
ne pie, Think the resolution will have to take
n n another turn.
NC q. DO you know OF any cmb Al X m e nts havl Of
been N .de In one street with dirt, except tha
NJ excavsted from Anothefi
T., A. l could not now confidently tell you
". either from my personal Knowledge or from
~ what have heard him say, where the DIR
W come IRON to I'LL up any one place, or wher
- the excavation occurred, with this exception
=. that l remember the last time l WAS up Their
- Mr. Gleeson was digging AWAY earth from
"' high bank. My attention was attracted to
ia, because OF the extensive cutting away that ha
"a been done, and he spoke OF the liability Of tn
az men being caught underneath 1t. advise
90 him not to continue that Kind OF digging an
rtsk the lives OF the men In that way
nm U. You saw him digging the earth on
In. street,
A. Will not be sure whether II was X or
street. II may have been I'M"
lily z DID you eethem digging on X street,
tof A. do not really remember that
,pd z. Then you have 10 knowledge At all 2
dirt being taken out oil one street and put Int
aeb another
re- A. No, sifi have not, TO my present know
the edge. In Tact, hs ! said before have oni
ing been on the WORK Tour or hVe times.
ling z. DO you know Of that matter being talkc
AID ever over with MI. Crane
me ne A NO, SIR. do not thlnkl was = party !
Im- any conversation OF that kind,