The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-01
BEAT EYEBAR CABLES AGAIN.
TAMMANF HOLDS ALL ITS RE-
PUBLICAN VOTES nut ONE.
Mathews Gets Ofr the Fence on the side
lie Was OH BefOre--NOw the Contracts
for the Manhattan Bridge Supcrstrh"-
,". tllre Cannot he Let lntil the FAIL.

1ammany Aldermen, assisted by votes
of Republican members, yesterday again
defeated the eyebar cable appropriation
for the Manhattan Bridge. The Board OF
Estimate at its meeting last week repaSsed
the appropriation once defeated Wy Ihe
Aldermen and sent it back to the board.
No explanation accompanied the return OF
the resolution and Tannany Leader McNall
and his colleagues contended yesterday
that the Aldermen had been insulted.
Aldermen McInnes, who presided in the
absence Of President Fornes, knew what
was coming. He thought he had found a
way to head of the vote by ruling that
under the provisions of section AZ OF the
Charter q bond issue could not be acted
upon on the day il was received from 'he
Board Of Est innate. He ruled that the
matter came before the Aldermen only on
the day that resolution was received at the
meeting
Mr.. Mccall checkmated this ruling by
springing an opinion from the Corporation
Counsel's Office that resolution trans
mitted from the Board Of Estimate was
really before the Aldermen when 1t was
received by the City Clerk
After five roll calls Tammany obtained Al
votes to 25 Forty votes were required to
defeat the appropriation, and it was beaten
with one vote to spare, Just as it was two
weeks ago
With the exception Of Alderman Holmes,
who represents George r. Bidwelrs dis
trict, the Republicans who voted with Tam
many on the last occasion voted with them
again yesterday. Alderman Mathews. who
comes from Abe Grubers district, stated
early in the week that he intended to vote
for the appropriation. Yesterday he
waited until the fourth roll call, when IL
was clear that Tammanv would succeed,
and then in a long speech explained that As
he had studied the whole problem Of evebars
al opposed TO wire cables, he had reached
the conclusion that "LindenthaPs hobby
would cost the city 81, 900, 600 more than the
wire cables and that, therefore. he would
vote in the negative"
Subsequently at the meeting of the Board
of Estimate Borough President Swanstrom
of Brooklyn suggested that the board pass
the resolution again, Mayor Low said
he did not think such step would be wise
and suggested that nothing more he done
until the fall Comptroller Circuit init
mated that the Board Of Estimate would
not send the resolution back Tor thiru
time unless there was some satisfactory
assurance that it would be- passed by the
Aldermen. The board was not going TO
enter into game of shuttlecock,
The Alderman approved an ISSUE OF
corporate stock to the amount of So, 1888
for the superstrlcture Of the Blackwell'S
Island bridge This bridge is TO be built on
the cantilever system The appropriation
was passed without discussion.
Among the appropr atoms favorably
passed upon Yesterday by the Aldermen
were these: s2O7 900 for public baths in Brook
lyn; $4,000 for repairs to the Brooklyn Bor-
0ughCour House; 800 900 for improvements
OF the Fire Department of Queens; 81 900
for new water mains and pumping stations,
and 1880 900 for parks in the different Dor
oughs.
Borough President Cantor was authorized
to carry out his plan for building pipe
gallery in lower Broadway TO be super
imposed on the Brooklyn rapid transit ex-
tension subway. An appropriation of
$1,000 was made TO meet the cost OF the