New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-13
GITES VETO TO MAYOR
Printers Error Nullitfes Board of
Estimates Potcer.

Through an error or Inc printer ana proof
reader at Albany In failing properly TO bracket
an amendment to the city charter. the bill
living the Board OF Estimate and Apportion-
Inent sole power in opening and closing streets
changing maps and laying out new tunnels
marks and approaches TO bridges gives Mayor
low absolute veto power over the transactions
IF the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
and leaves the borough presidents little more
than fgureheads. The bill was supported by
the Board Of Estimate and Apportionment and
was principally designed 10 give the board
mower TO close Thirty-second-st.. between Sew
entb sid Ninth aves.. so as to prevent the al
derrnen from delaying the consent needed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad in building its sta
ton.
The defect in the law is made more impor-
tsnt because the Board of Estimate and APP
-ortionrnent viii. on Friday. in Mayor Lows
absence. take UP anew various vast projects
which have been adopted by it. but which now
lie in committee in the Board of Aldermen. A
partial list Of these improvements. with their
spproximate cost. follows:
widening Delancey-s Clnton-st. to Bower 81 10000
Wideaine sufolk-st. from East HOuston-st to -
Tl s1aSa extension to new Manhattan
BTless widening to So or 100 feet 5000 COO
Bridge approaches in Queens .-----------.- 100000
Total -s14 500 600
This does not take into account the proposed
widening Of Fifty-ninth-st. between Second
ave and Fifth-ave.. and from Eighth-ave. TO
Colurlbus-ave. If this project should be car
-ias out the cost would be S14, 900 600 more. All
these improvements are on the calendar for
Friday Having been passed on once, they will be
rushed through this time and the hearing and
final disposition VIII be set for May 20.
The law which gives the Mayor sole veto pow
III
lows:
Ie B ana p empowered WheneTer and as often
as i may deem it for the public interest so 10 90
Work 50 as % lay OUT streets. parks, bridges,
tunnels and approaches 70 bridges sIe aIta
and close existing streets and 10 change 1he srdae
Ok publishing notice of its proposed action for ten
DAYS in The city Record" and the corporation 1
sons interested n such change TO be heard al a
publication Of such notice After the due pub
aT5 ob5ectjons if any there be. against the pro-
- cy-s~19s # the said board shall favor such
change Totvttt standiug such protests and oblec-
10 The Board Of Aldermen. together with the OBJ
iertfons If any. which have been made in writing
and filed with IL and statement OF lIs I.oLs
for such determination: If the Board OF AloerneR en-
concur in such resolution passed by the Board 9I
Estimate and Apportlonr1ent oE rSlssilg an o. " "a
-Hfrfs 4-o1e7 and the same receives the apprcVal
fh- CITY Of New-York. or in the grade OF any
street or streets shown thereon, shall be deemed
- have been made
The error was made in not placing a bracket
after. instead of before. the words and the same
receives the approval Of the Mayor" These
words belonged TO the old law. and as such
should have been duly bracketed- With the
words Er. the Mayor is left with veto power.
I object 70 being mere fgurehead," said
Borough President Swanstrom yesterday, at the
City Hall Mayor Low is a good man ana an
that hut I believe the law is unconstitutional
shall call the borough presidents together lor d
talk about the error. don't know as We on
An anvthing All the members OF the ooaru.
Win the exception Of the Mayor, are In favor OF
the widening of Livingston-st-- He can XII the
-,ro5art now if he wants 20, no natter II lne
o-rer members of the board favor II
This makes the Mayor the whole thlnG' sdlu
4ao~o71gl7 President Cantor There is no neces-
sitv for public hearings or anything OF that
COT If the Mayor is against a new proJect,
under this law he veto it. In trying 70 smut
out the aldermen the lawmakers nave sii II oC.
IN n tn Board Of Estimate but the Mayo
himself