The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-10-10
Bidder Talks About
Carrying Matter to Supreme
Court to Win.
THE CIVIC FEDS GET BUSY
Good Chance Now to Press for a
New Deal on Common
Sense Lines.

That several things will happen be-
fore work is commenced on the Hceia
stretch Of belt road, with the possibil
ity Of the contract being called of and
new deal made, seems evident from
recent developments. In the FIRST place
steps are being taken by w. A. Kinney,
attorney for John Wilson, who was the
lowest bidder on the job, to fight any
award except to Wilson, while the
civic federation has called q meeting
to discuss the general aspect of the
matter and to consider what steps, if
any, should be taken to prevent any
contract on the present specifications.
Mr. Kinney has given out that he
intends to contest the award of the
contract to Lord. Young Company, and
papers will be fled within the next few
days to this effect, while the bidders
to whom the contract is awarded have
not fled their bond, and win not do so
until the law matter is straightened out
by the courts and other objections are
disposed of.
To Supreme Court.
| If the belt road commission does not
award the contract to Wilson, he is
prepared to take the matter to the
iSupreme Court of the United States if
he is beaten in the local courts, so he
says in which event there win be no
belt road for years.
1t is the opinion expressed around
the city that the commission will be
obliged to change its award and give
the contract to Wilson, a prepOster0us
suppositiOn, or throw out all tenders
for the work and cali for new bids on
revised specifications, which would be
the proper thing to do The commits
sion might, if wholly without good
Judgment, call for new bids on the
present specifications as one way out of
trouble.
4 The rd-Young Company takes the
stand that there is no use in fling a
bond and signing the contract as long
as there is possibility of a suit or a
call for new bids.
4 Contract Prepared.
The contract is now being prepared
in the office of the attorney general and
will be ready for signature in day
or two, but, as stated before, Lord
Young Company win not sign until
either the suit is brought by McCan-
dless and Wilson or it is seen that no
writ of certiorari is to be issued or the
commissioners enjoined from letting
contract disapproved of by the COM
munity at large.
Asked the status of the affair yester-
day afternoon, Secretary Petrie of the
board stated that he had not seen Mr..
J Adams since the day of the award and
did not know anything about the mat
ter.
! Tan Days for Bond.
As to the time that the contract was
to be signed, he said the contractors
had ten days TO do this and file their
bond as required by law, but that the
bond would not be filed, he thought, un-
til the contract was presented and
signed.
Chairman Adams of the loan fund
commission has not been in town but
once since the award of the bid, and so
/ nothing is known as to how he stands
in the fight promised or what he in
tends doing in regard to the questions
which have been raised.
civic Feds. Busy.
Yesterday a meeting was held Of the
roads advisory committee Of the civic
federation and some strong was in
dulged in over the wholly unnecessary
' secrecy with which the belt road com
e mission had proceeded in its work and
in dumping what is considered ga job
upon an unsuspeeting public. The
committee resolved that the matter OF
deciding to spend eighty thousand dol
lars on any FIVE miles of country road
was something that needed impartial in
vestigation, but thought that it should
be taken up by the federation as o
whole and not any subcommittee. Ae
3 eOrdingly, meeting of the federation
1 is called, at which the road committee
y will express its views and ask for in