New-York tribune., 1899-08-12
GARDINER ASKS FOR MORE.
PRAISES HIS WORK AS A JUSTIFICATION
1op ,N INCREASED APPROPRIATION.

FOR AN INCREASED APPROPKlAlioN
The heads Of the city departments are now
sending in TO the Controller and the Municipai
Assenblv estimates of the amounts trey 'hihN
n,,u he necessary to run their departments iol
1000 Tbesa estimates must be in before the
.rd NJ the month, so that the Controller VIII
,,.o or onnortunity TO look over them oeiore
Oo,ober I about which time the Board OF Es'i-
mate meets and passes upon them uhoer 'he
ohor,er the amounts which each department.
has 10 spend are fixed before the ehd oi w
tober and nothing can be added 10 the puue''
after that date. IAN,
Comics Of the estimates have to be filed with
the Municipal Assembly. although that pouy
has little control over the budget, ana cahho'
add n dollar TO 1t. The first head OF Depart
rnent 10 send in his estimates was Distrlct Az
torney Gardiner. He asks for a total OF S<'-'-
6lO the amount he received last year oeiiis
So6O37O There is an increase OF sl"-4' Ill 'iie
item of salaries for deputy assistants clerAS'
detectives and messengers, and furtheI III
crease Of $1,000 in the iIem for contingent eN-
penses otherwise the estimates OF the ONCE
ore the same as last year
The Surrogate of queens asks for slo"V'
The amount allowed TO him last year was slZ-
400 The Commissioner Of Records OF Kings
County asks for 100000 The estimates OF 'he
municipal courts Of Brooklyn are fixed by law
and are the same as last year
Colonel Appleton OF the 9TH Regiment, is the
first Of the regimenta commanders TO send III
estimates He asks for $1,000 allowed TO MIN
by law; S1O,95O for wages, and Sll,4lo 1or re-
pairs and supplies.
Mr.. Gardiner in his application says;
The contingent expenses for the current year.
1892 will be more than the amount IN &c c,r ny
rent year the demands on this account nave pc. !!
exceptionally heavy. owing to the many I'M mPI
criminal cases which nave arisen. hCIu"as rnc "a
homicide and other trials, which have a,pS't5n S tS
sneral PT9nS 0 eSpert in medicine insanity chem
istry and in several instances autopSes ana chcin-
cal analyses of difficult and expensive character.
The attendance Of necessary ana naterldI WIZ ~ 9
from all parts Of the country AT greal eNPcuSe ""9
sDcS contingencies can never be estimated with
reasonable certainty. because the District Attorney
vance what crimes may be committed on the
county In due administration OF crlfnnal yusi - bs
office a number of appeals 10 the higher courts courts
found pending from prior trials ana SrieFs
but three have been reversed: or appeals since
taken from trials and conyct%Sns % ma nad bean n9t, shy
gle reversal. which is record unexamped IN i tn,s
once Many Of the b1p 2ppG2s %'9 intricate
tcs of constitutional law as for eXamplTh % mp hv, the
sentence Of conviction for felony and as to the the
validity OF the Barber law. both of which appeas
were argued by me in the Supreme Court or the
United States and the appeals involving consutn- D.
tionaltv of the special Jury law and veteran law
as applicable 10 this office. both Of which were
argued by me in the Court OF Appeals. -, ,
Although the Grand Jury for 1899 found so m
dictments nevertheless. at the close Of the June
term on July l. 1899 there were but ISIS indictment :
remaining undisposed Of the lowest number In TINS
Office for half a century. But nine indictments for
Violations OF the liquor law then remained TO ne
1red and no policy gambling or disorderly house
Indictments remained. except such as the Court
for proper reasons and at the request OF oeleho-
ants counsel put over for trial at later days. .
Every Indictment for violation OF the Electlo1
law has heen disposed Of When the term ended
June 40 1909 there were hut nine prisoners await
ing Indictment and but thirty-four prisoners
awaiting trial the lowest number In years.
The office is therefore up date for the first time
in fifty years.
The District Attorney quoted a resolution OF
the February Grand Jury praising him.