The Jersey City News

BOYLE RISES TO EXPLAIN
The Board of Finance Bill
More Than He Bargained For.

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The Street Paving Bill and the Freeholders' Asylum Bill Will
Probably Die of Asphyxia.

Special to the Jersey City News.
TRENTON, Feb. 3, 1890. --Mr. Byrne's bill
relating to patent pavement and that of
Mr. Boyle taking away the concurring
power of Boards of Finance are probably
buried deep in committee. It is said that
the opposition which these two bills have
aroused, and the transparent scheme
which lurks beneath their surface, have
had their effect upon the committee.
Mr. Boyle appears to have had some in-
timation of this, for during the session
this evening he arose to a question of
privilege and stated that he introduced
the bill by request and that upon reading
it over he finds that it goes too far. It
was not the intention of the gentlemen
introducing it, he said, to have it take the
power of concurrence from the Board of
Finance of Jersey City entirely, but its
object was that when the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners awarded a
contract for the improvement of a street
or the construction of a sewer, and the
contractor gives a bond with sufficient
sureties, it would not be necessary to
send that contract to the Board of Fi-
nance for their concurrence.
Mr. Boyle said that he would prepare
an amendment to the bill to meet these
views.
As the Board of Street and Water Com-
missioners is the Board which probably
needs the check of the Board of Finance
more than any other, those who opposed
the bill in its original shape do not look
upon Mr. Boyle's explanation with any
degree of favor.
The bill for the new lunatic asylum is
also likely to be smothered in committee
if it retains its present shape. The oppo-
sition to it seems to be too great
to be ignored. This is directed
not so much against the building of the
asylum as it is against allowing the Board
of Freeholders to spend the money in
view of the scandal which is connected
with the new Hall of Records. True, it is
well understood, that the present Board
is a new one; but it is equally well known
that the chief jokers of the old Board
figure in the new, and there is decided
opposition to entrusting the disbursement
of so large a sum of money in their hands.
There is a possibility that the bill will be
amended so as to provide for a commis-
sion to which shall be entrusted the con-
struction of the asylum.