New-York tribune., 1915-03-26
MAYOR SEES PLOT
IN GARBAGE VETO
Saws Misrepresentation
Caused Whitman to
Reject Bill.

Mavor Mitchell told 800 members OF
the Bronx Board Of Trade in McKin-
lev Square Casino, Boston Road ana
,seth Street, last night that their oor-
oueh's budget and taxes would be si'.
400 900 higher this year than ne wi'hed
them to be.
"At Albany to-day the Governor
vatoed a bill which would allow the
poard Of Estimate and Apportionment
to make reasonable contract for the
disnosaI OF the city's waste on barren
Island. If wo could have got TINS oiii
annroved the boost in the budget couid
have been avoided"
Owing to other engagements LOT the
evening Mayor Mitchell had 10 spean
before the twenty-first annual dinner
of the Bronx Board Of Trade mad De-
gun. .hor.
sbip of 1000 and that you are sun
growing" he began. II congratulate
Sou ON YOUR success. May your life be
long and useful in lighting for the de-
veIopment of the Bronx. | think l may
be permitted to join with you IN your
feeling of pride because the broh~
was once my borough"
The Mayor referred to his birth and
early education in the Fordham neigh-
borhood. 81 have a feeling that the
Bronx Is still my borough" ne added'
amid applause. oo A.,
ave are paying s1,4oO.ooo for the
disposal Of the city's garbage AT
plant on Barren Island, when ~ d
nuiance TO its surroundings. WIN tne
contractor we have flve-year CONTRACT
which has two years TO run. because
the law limits US 70 hve-year CON
tract we cannot get private capitai 70
invest the funds necessary to put up a
modern plant that can make useful and
available for profit the by-products OF
the destruction of the city's waste.
I'VE want the power to make NJ
teen-year contract. We want power
to make that with a private contractor, I,
who would put up his own money ana
operate the plant upon pront-shar-
ing basis with the city. We want, also,
as an alternative, the power to oulia
with the city's money a plant on c!ty
land and invite private capital TO
equip that plant and to operate II on
a Notwithstanding basis. We sent to Al
bany a bill to get the Board OF Esti-
mate the power, which it does not pos
sess to-day, to make either one OF these
contracts. -.
"The bill was enacted by the Legis,,
lature. then sent to the Mayor, and l
signed il. It went to Albany to the
Governor. Now a campaign OF mis-
representation was started. Whether
II was started in the interests Of the
present contractor or whether II was
started for some other or less sinis-
ter purpose, do not know But the
fact that misrepresentation was IN
dulged in and has so far misled the
Governor in his judgment as to lead
him to veto that bill to-day is fact
"If there is one thing that New. York
Citv needs TO get an efficient and eco
nomical government, it IS absolute
genuine, full and untrammelled home
rule"
Every man present was ready TO take
holI and boost with all his might for
the Bigger-Better-B Bronx, which has be-
come the Board of Trades slogan.
The Rev william NJ. Hess, pastor OF
Trinity Congregational Church., made
the invocation. After dinner addresses
were made by Borough President Ma
thewson, on "The Bronx"; Richard W.
Lawrence, on "The Bronx and Its
..ds"; James " Barry, on "The State
and It's Opportunities; Representa-: ie
Walter NJ. Chandler, on The Nation
and It's Citizenship and Edward B.
Boynton, Boy president of the Board of
Trade, who presided at the dinner.
Among the men who sat at the
guests tabli were Fire Commissioner
Robert Adamson, District Attorney
Francis Martin, Edward Polak, Regis
ter of Bronx County; State Treasurer
James L. Wells, Sheriff James :.
O'Brien of Bronx County, County Judge
louis y Gibbs and Controller William
Prendergast.