The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-27
nOOS 0VERRIDDEN.
Street and Water Commits
sieners Pass the Pay
reDas Resolution by
a Vote of 4 to 4.
BROWN sUsTAINs THE MAYOR
City Will Hare to Foot the Legal
Expenses Of the Quib-
bling Boards.

| AS fo~reshadowed in ssThe News" the
Street and observation-disclosures at tnelr
meeting yesterday afternoon did not sus-
tain Mayer Hoos in his veto of their reso-
/. iusiens ordering paid the salaries OF tne
employees Of Belfeville and High service
for June, $2,0267& Superintendent or wa
Ter Department, 1871, and extra CLERKS
IN Water Department. month of June,
SECS.
The payrolls when originally passed by
the Street and Water Commissioners were
sent direct to thefMayor for his approval
Z or ~disapprovaL. A few days before the
resolutions reached the Mayor the fl-
nance Commissioners met. Having learned
that the Streetiand' Water Commissioners
proposed ignoring them by not senoing
,payrolls to themi for concurrence, tney
asked Corporation Counsel Blair for an
y opinion as to their rights and power. Mr-
Blair classified the payrolls and several
expenditures oTer which they had the
power of concurrence. He included the
disputed payrotls in those over which the
Board exercised concurrent power.
Mayor Hoos next appealed to Corpora
ton COUNCIL d5lair, and he furnished HIS
Honor with a long opinion in which ne
advised him, that the payrolls in question
to be regularly audited must be sent TO.
the Finance Board for concurrence. The
veto followed.
II the ueantime4 Allan L. McDermott
wassconsuited. ,andthe advised the Mayor
andfStreet andsWaFer Commissioners that
theiFinance BoardGas, by demanding the
right of concurrence usurping the owe
of 1.-THE Street and Water Board. He said
the Board had absolutely no power IN the
premises. In his opsnion Mr.. McDermott
pointed out the interesting fact to the
Commissioners that the late Leon ALBEIT
and William ID. Edwards, when in the
office of CORPORATION Counsel, had given
opinions similar to his.
Tha settled the, question so far as the
Street n Water Commissioners were
concerned.
II was decided to override the Mayors
veto, and IF Unnecessary take the case into
court to have the finance Boards power
clearly outlined.
When the@Mayor's veto am up yester.
day AFTERNOON, Commissioner Nolan moved
that It be taken .fromsthe table. Commits
sioner Brown demanded that the opinion
of Mr.. Blair, which accompanied the veto,
be read. The. Board when Republican,
ne said. had always submitted its acts to
the Board Of FINANCE. why the Board
should take a different stand now" he
continued, 'Itcannot' understand. have
not read. the opinion of our counsel, and
/ know taboutfit only from what ! have
read in'the newspapers. I have to depend
upon them for my Information. as no Off
cial documentJi is ever submitted 10 me in
this Board. 4 nave a right to have it
read
The newspapers generally get all there
is to know before the Board gets it." said
President hollywood. sarcastScally.
s'This Board claims the right said
Commissioner Hauck, ITO act without
asking the concurrence of the Board of
Finance We fwant and, in fact, propose
making a test tease of this and take. it to
the courts"
This BoardAis in doubt on this ques-
tion," said Commissioner Nolan, "as the
Corporation Counsel gives the Mayor one
opinion and still another to the Finance
Board"
II vii vote to pass the resolutions over
the Mayors veto,, ,said Commissioner
Heintze, "in order to have this dispute as
to the power of the two Boards settled.
We want thesCourts to decide and estab-
lish our respective rights"
The veto was overridden by a vote of
4 to !, Commissioner Brown voting to
sustain the mayor.
1t is now proposed to shave one of the
men whose pay is hung up, bring suit
will be called upon to determine whether
the Finance Board has the tpower of con-
currenee or not. The suit. will be insti-
tuted this week.