Show NELLIS SEED CASE Government Sued for Eighteen Thousand Thou-sand Dollars for Garden Seed by ITow Yorker Washington June Preliminary steps are being taken for tho hearing by tho court of claims of the suit brought against the Government by the legal representatives of Arthur C Nelllu of New York for the payment of S1GOOO claimed to be due to him for I I furnishing seeds to the Department of Agilculturo during n recent fiscal year Nollls who Is said to be the manager of the New York Market Gardeners association with headquarters at 3911 Cortlnndt street New York city was the contractor for furnishing the seeds for which Congress appropriated 108 S71 I but the sum of 1S000 was withheld I with-held by the department because of the alleged failure of the contractor to carryout carry-out the terms of his contract to the satisfaction of the officials According to one official of the department Ie partment the distribution of needs for the year In question Was n late and a POOl one and an Investigation was undertaken un-dertaken to determine whether Nellls was supplying the seeds I according to contract The olllclnls were not satls fled that all seeds contracted for were received by the department and after ar Inquiry conducted by Prof Beverly T Galloway the department decided to withhold the payment of 510SOOO which under the regular order of things would have been duo Nellls at the termination of his contract Nellls attempted to have the paper bogs In which the needs were enclosed made In Washington by u machine in which an official of the Agricultural department Is said to have Invested some money but the scheme proved a failure and he way compelled to go to New York and have the work done there this necessarily causing some delay de-lay In the distribution of the seeds |