The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-05
FINANCIERS SURPRISED,
The Street and Water Board
Sends Them the Water
Payrolls for July.
II is NOT L SURRENDER. HOWEVER
Mr.. Hayes Unbalanced Bid Fired
0ut-Another Case of high,
Low, Jack and the Game.

The Finance Commissioners were some
what surprised last night when they
found that the Street and Water COM
fn~issioners had sent them for concurrence
the July payrolls of the employees oi
Belleville and High Service and the Cen
eral Superintendent and extra clerks EN-
ployed In the water department. Tne
June payrolls of the same departments
are the ones the Street and Water Com
missioners refused to forward to the RI
nance Board, c~ontending that that boaTo
had no power over the payrolls. Mayor
Hoos vetoed the June payroll resolutions
and the Street and Water Commissioners
promptly passed them over the veto.
The warrants were sent to the Mayor
He has refused to sign them ana says g
will withhold his signature until the pay
rolls are returned to the Finance Boa1o2
for concurrence.
The ~"hung-up'' payrolls are to be taken
into court by three city employees one
from each department. By the SUITS lney
will institute. it is the intention OF tne
Street and Water Commissioners to have
the court determine whether the water
Department payrolls are subject TO the
Finanea Boards concurrence or not.
Allan L. McDermott, who has been adj
yising the Street and Water Board TO
ignore the Finance Board, says that the
latter Board, by claiming concurrent
jurisdiction, Is assuming power WIN
which it is not vested.
The Street and Water commissioners
say their reason for sending the July pay
rolls to the Finance Board is to enable
tho city employees to get their money on
time. Money lenders, it was discovered,
-. IN par cont a month TOT
money and the employees were kicking.
Tbe commissioners say that the dispute
can be settled as well with one months
navrous as a dozen. Until the Court
passes upon the subject all the payrolls
from the water department Will be SEM
to the Finance Board for concurrence.
The Finance Commissioners non-con-
Cured in the award of a contract to
Harry F. Hayes for furnishing ana oe-
uvering nails, brooms, shovels, picks and
other supplies. A close examination
showed, the Commissioners say, that
Hayes bid was an unbalanced one ana
was made with the knowledge OF what
goods would be used in large quantities
and what would rarely be called for. one
item In the bid was 6 cents a pound Tor
nails. The market price Is SAID TO De
from one cent to one cent and a nail.
The Street and Water Commissioners VIII
readvertise for the supplies Hayes was
to furnish, and they will eliminate the
high priced goods which We're called Tor
in the first specifications. 1t is alleged
that by bidding low on the high-priced
goods and asking exorbitant prices for
articles which cost little, Hayes man
aged to procure the contract.
The Lafayette Citizens Association
communicated with the Board and asked
4 q aia several s E lots c ,Swnss H b fas city ana al
Canal streets. be set aside for PARK pur-
poses. The Mayor, the communication
said, favored the creation Or 2 PARK Ia "a
would consent to the city property IN
question being used for park purposes.
The communication was referred 10 the
Committee of the Whole.
Corporation Counsel Blair filed with the
Board an opinion to the effect that It was
legal to apply o~ne-quarter OF the iiquor
license money to the general tax bud
get. The opinion was ordered spread IN
full on the minutes. The members want
ted the opinion on record to snow Wnag
ground they had for using the fund for
current expenses rather. han setting 1T
aside for the use of the Sinking Fund
Commission in the redemption Of bonds.
City Clerk O'Donnell notified the Board
that he has appointed N. r. Furey2 his
deputy to act until he returns from his
vacation on August IA.
After August is the Board will meet at
four o'clock in the afternoon of every
other Wednesday,.
A transfer of $500 was made in the
Board of Aldermen account from the
Aims Committee to Printing and Supplies.
To pay claims contracted in the repair
of the asphalt pavement in York, Hen
derson, Mercer, Montgomery and Grove
streets, $4,000 was appropriated to the
Street and Water Board. The sum will
be deducted from the special street por-
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