The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-02

Taxation of watchfulness. and in the per
forInance of our duty here we are not
TO regard one wit the success of either
political party.
sThe Court commends the police au-
thorities of the county for their vigilance
in routing out of the county as tar as
they have been able to do so, the green
goods business, the policy shops. and
the pool rooms.
1.-The Court must again call the atten,,
ton of the Grand Jury to the Illegal
and recommend an Indictment ot al n
fractions of this Law which exists upon
the statute books Whether It rs Is n,ys Wise
10 consider. It is our, duty to ENFORCE
~ THE BOULEVARD.
There is another nasgtter to which
wish to call your attention, and that IS the
expenditure of public moneys don I
suppose there can be any question 1nat
man who has an opportunity to spsnd
public money spent all he could POSSIBLY
md to spend. The, indications IN TINS
State are that that has been the process.
The expenditure of pubic moneys taxes
the guise of schemes for public Improve
qnent great deal of the time. notlce
in this county It mas taken tnst gu!se ~
now The uqestion is just how long the
taxpaying public can stand 1t: CITY HaIlS
and boulevards. additional lunatlc asy-
/ do not say that the expenditures are
corrupt. I, perhaps. have no rlght 70
say that they are extraVeg ant aieno@ngA " .
they do look to be very expensive; nhe
fault seems to be N a great measure
primarily in the legislation which either
provides that it shall be lawful to make
body. that naturally hrs control over 1t
or would have control or supervision
over It shall be empowered to DO IL.
VERY frequently vote or tne peo,piie
is taken on a statute and the people
tool1 at the statute and say THIS IS hail Z
a million, we will vote for that, and tnlnk
authority is obtained for the expenditure
of a million. and the year after Ter an an,
other milton and SO dtlney Keep nd on thev sll
turn that set of officials out ana anotnes
set gets in and commences the same
che New aga yogYf oY ali snuhicpa
bodies in this county. In fact, the Court
here has during the last week or I'VE
to Investigate themselves, and they pro
posed to do it and to present the re-
suits to you at q later day IN the term.
ter of the construction of the County
Road, the Boulevard as 1t Is ealiea;
No complaints have come to "a! tnis ~ nouns IT.
publfe Improvement, and the distribution
e pF9hnga f fhere sc 0gob 3 NOBODY Just
to Complain, but just wait for four or f1ye
years and some political party VIII De
good many men who bear now fine
Reputation, will find that their ,fepula-
tions are in the grave, the pohtical grave, I'VE,
oT %i s8me On in sasf sesfeg raPHa Prison that IS often
the result of these expenditures. Nov, ,
we want to know who IS resps1mslnIple psnl lI1 for for
they Voted to construct the road; the
engineer who had control ana supervlSsee
ion, appointed by Justice Knapp, mysS5it s5l
County Of Hudson. Now. the :, Court dis
tentlon to this matter The Court ap-
pointed a person they supposed to be
competent and thoreughly y relIanle, as as en- en-
formation, except the expensive eharac-
ter of the work. that he is not & that 5 S5or,
OF a enaed man ne Every auty Term M Since that road
Grand Jury to watch it, to make. investi-
cation to make o c9mglan5s ngg 10 ns and
perhaps the Court would hnd way 70 g
find indictments, to make presentlmesnts IN Is Is
as public as possible. Every month, OF
about that period, since the work com.
menced, have read p9oIc staseinS;nr ts, me- !
the County Clerk for puohc Inspection.
What the Court says to you here IS OF @ Us
will in relatipn t9 h, ms t,nn mat1gr ,on ih te
engineer and the Board of Chosen Free
holders to take care that every dollar
is expended in accordance with the stat
utes. The Court has no power to sfof
the work, 1T has no power to approve a
bill and no power TO disapprove OF one,
no power to prevent a contract peng
made or to make g contract no power to
determine its provisions, and the Couri
will assume no such responsibility, and
the public must distinctly understa4d "a T. T.
presented for years to come, and m n. lhe
nresenlt condition of the statute this
Court has no power to prevent 1t; there
| fore the Court calls your attention 70
the matter and asks you to investigate
If Thoroughly and present It to this Court
1.-THE original estate. Of the cost OF TINS
road has been exceeded in the cost by
| more than double, and the limit has not
been reached. .,.
The Court here went into details Civ
ing the figures and the, estimates by
the engineer, and the costs as presented
UP to this time, showing the excess OF
cost over estimates. The engineers state
merlts which have been submitted to the
Csuft will be handed to the Grand Jury;
the attention of the Grand Jury to the
water supply of Jersey City. That mat
ter has been under adyisemert by the
proper city officials, and it has been be-
! fore the Legislature Of this state, and
direct ct = your ld attention to this matter.
| Where the expenditure OF SO vast
! sum of public money is involved The
Grand Jury can scarcely 60 afliss i IN
/ eiYirv the mater their most careful
| and Thorough, consideration.
| There are other matters of public
| rs ture which the Court has under ad-
! visen1ent which VIII be givens to you
| ter on when the matter IS IN sucf
| definite shape as that we may act in.
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