Show PATRICK MORAN HOLDS UP TRUST Big Paving Contracts Are Not Awarded Aw Because He Is Blocking All Action HE SEEKS TO MAKE MAK TERMS IS AFTER SUBCONTRACT OR ORA A DIVISION OF PROFITS Although the board of public works has as declared that the Barber arber Asphalt company Is entitled to the contracts for tor the three big street paving Jobs which are to be done this summer BUmmer the contracts are slumbering peacefully in inthe the he Joint committee on finance and mu municipal municipal laws of the city cl y council to which they the were referred at the Instigation of Contractor Patrick J Moran Nobody round around In city official circles seriously disputes s that Moran who bid considerably higher on the contracts than the asphalt company is behind the holdup now being perpetrated by the council committees Nobody disputes that the contracts will stay where they are until Mr Moran makes some kind of terms with the asphalt trust Subcontract or Divvy Some say ay that Mr Moran wants a subcontract from the trust to do the actual work of o the tho paving others say that he would be content with a divi division divIsion sion of the profits which the trust ex cx expects expects to make out of ot the Jobs Mr Moran oran it is i said regards ZIon as his particular preserve and those who re refuse refuse refuse fuse obstinately to regard him as a philanthropist say ray in view of cC the suc success su cess of his conduit manipulations he has a right so to regard it He thinks Itis t is claimed that no outside contractor or contracting firm has any right to butt in here and take work without giving him a share in the and that divers and sundry councilmen are of ot the th same ame opinion is Js evidenced by bj the fact that the trusts contracts are being held up The American councilmen who ho compose the majority on the joint com corn committee committee are C J Crabtree W Vf Mont Ferry M 11 E Mulvey T R Black and andA andA andA A R Carter Mr Crabtree is in San Francisco but the other oth r members are all here and two committee meetings have been held since the matter was waa referred o 0 thorn them It was referred on motion of Councilman T TL R B Black who above all others is looked upon as Contractor Morans principal friend in the council They Have an Excuse The Th councilmen who are holding up the contract at Mr Morans behest have an excuse They say that they wish to t compel the asphalt trust to dismiss a suit which it now has pend pending ing lug against the city before re they give It any more contracts In mother other words they wish to use the new contracts as asa asa asa a club to compel the dismissal of ot that suit The suit is for a balance of about which the trust claims is due it for paving Second and Third South streets a few years ago ao The city held out a portion of the contract price because the work was w S Snot not finished within the time specified by b the contract Councilmen and other officials who oppose holding up the present contracts say that the suit should be tried on its merits that if the city owes the trust anything it should pay it and if it does not it should be willing to abide by the judg judgment judgment ment merit of the court Councilmen outside the Moran circle regard the excuse given for holding up the ns RF a m mere re |