The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-18
WHITMAN WEIGHING
| COURT HOUSE BILL
Tears Cost Will Be $4,000
900, Besides $40, 900, OOO to
$4,000, 900 Estimates.
FAR APART

tALsANY, May 17.-Gov. whitman gave
b intimation at the hearing to-day as
whether or not he would approve
enator Mills,s bill which would permit
lew York county's new court house
snmission to make a.contract for con-
ERECTION which would bind the con-
actors fully but not the city ~ to
hon the o would be available for
- work.
L. Lanln Kellogg. n Of the commits
loners, and Alanson T. Briggs. secre-
Ary Of the commission pointed out that
se cost Of the site was about $40, 900
date and that the building could be
INSTRUCTED for $4,000, 600. They in
listed that II the contract was let now
1000. 900 might be saved, because OF
10 low rates on labor and materials.
was also shown that the city might
o. $500, 900 from the sale OF some
9 the ground obtained for the site which
yould moi be needed. Therefore the
Stal cost might not exceed $4,000. 000.
says site Cost sis.OOO,OOO.
Senator William NJ. Bennett. represent
hg the Society for the Prevention OF
lunicipal Waste and the Protection OF
property Rights, insisted that the site
"a already cost more than 31s. 1000 600.
bat the building would cost two or
hree times what the commission seu-
1ated and that eventually the new court
.ouso might cost anywhere between
100000 o0 and 100000 oo.
"This bill u an admission from the
~ authorities that the debt limit has
Ven reached or exceeded" said Mr..
bennett. rs 1t permits the commission
b ant erect the foundation and then
.rocssd with the building story by story
ach year a. money may be available.
ne scandals which have surrounded
be building Of State Capitols will be
epeated here.
Tho city Of New York has got to q
soiut where In q few months It won't
b able Z O pay its policemen. fremen
Ind school teachers. The city might
stter sell the new court house site at a
oss and add four stories to the old
ourt house."
p. Doyle and Stewart Brown. rep
esentins real estate interests; George
A.. Siege, representing the wholesale
market interests, and Frank Demuth.
e~presenting the West Side Association,
llso opposed the bill. Mr.. Doyle in
listed mat there Ii an overissue OF
$4,000. 900 In bonds by the city.
Mr.. Brown said that tho members
Z the Board Of Estimate acted Tx q
Ot Of women writing out blank checks
Without knowing where the money wac
. come from. He intimated that II
he Governor did not veto the bill the
hourts would be appealed to. on the
sround that the debt limit had been
seached.
INSTRUMENTATION IL Alleged.
Leo Arnstein. representing the Mayor
nice. insisted that individuals pretend
ne to represent real estate interests
eere disappearing the city officials
md pointed out hat aside from rapid
transit expenditures the Board OF Est''
nate since January l has provided foi
Expenditures amounting to only $ll.'
BOO 900 and hat ii has reduced thu
sudget by 100000 in expenditures
Sver which II had control.
Thirty plumbers from all sections Of
ne State opposed the provision OF thu
biii which would permit the cour'
house commission to let a single con
struction contract which would include
he plumbing work. They insisted or
living up to the general Law requiring
municipalities TO make separate con
tracts for plumbing work.