New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Open Break Comes When
Mayor Appeals to Re-
publican Leaders
Goes to Albany to
Oppose Salary Bills
Hearst Gubernatorial Boom
Declared Direct Cause of
Democratic Split
TStaf Correspondence

ALBANY, April 1.-THE row be-
tween Mayor Hylan and Tammany Hall,
which has been kept under cover since
its inception, several weeks ago, de-
veloped into an open fight to-day, when
Mayor Hylan appealed to Thaddeus {.
Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly, and
other Republican legislative leaders to
stop the wholesale raid upon the New
York City treasury which IS being per-
petrated here by the Tammany legls-
lative leaders in the closing hours OF
the session.
II am informed that these bills now
before the legislature affecting the City
of New York, providing for pensions,
salary increases, and new jobs, will
cost the city millions if they become
law" said Mayor Hylan. after ms con-
ference with Speaker Sweet These
bills are, for the most part, mandatory.
Many of them are SO drafted that the
Mayor cannot veto them. They constl-
tute wholesale raid on the city treas
ury at time when we need every
dollar. l have opposed salary in
creases, except in the cases of men and
women receiving $500 year or less
And 1 do hope that these ill-considered
measures will not pass.
Opposes West Side Bill
eve also came here to protest
against the passage of the Ottinger
West Side improvement bill, and the
six-cent-fare measure, which is a de-
fiance of the recent decision of the
Court of Appeals. If the Ottnger bill
- J.
it's hands,"
With the Mayor were Alfred e.
Smith. president of the Borough of
Manhattan; Edward Riegelmann. Pres
ident, of Brooklyn; Calvin ID. Van
Name, of Richmond, and Maurice Con-
molly, of Queens.
All the city officials urged the pas
sage of what is left of the Hylan leg
:slative programme, the Foley bill, Civ
ing the city power to consolidate all
departments whose heads are appoint
i've. the bills abolishing the court
house board, the water supply COM
mission and the Bronx Parkway Com
mission.
Not word was said regarding the
Tammany legislators here by Mayor
ilylan. That there was break be-
tween the Mayor and Tammany has
been an open secret ever since the
Mayor returned from Palm Beach with
his boom for Hearst for Governor.
But until to-day there has been nothing
said or done in the open by either to
indicate there was a rupture.
Hearst Real Cause of Break
=. And that "Al" Smith, one of the real
sewers in Tammany Hall, was out of
Sympathy with the Mayor, although he
acted as polite yes man" for the
Mayor to-day, was shown by his not
returning to New York with the Mayor
on the Empire State Express tonight.
Instead, CAP remained over to hobnob
with the Tammany legislators.
The real cause of the break was
Hearst boom for Governor. Tammany
cannot afford to fight Hearst openly,
but its leaders have lent their moral
support to the efforts of the upstate
Democrats to put the Indian sign on
Hearst. The Tribune correspondent is
Informed that the fight Of the upstate
Democrats is being financed by a mil
lionaire member of Tammany Hall
who made his money out of gas and
electric lighting.
Tammany Legislators here TONIGHT
were somewhat fiery in their comments
on Mayor Hylan and Mr.. Hearst. The-
spoke their minds, and what they said
would have tingled the cars of the two
had they heard them.
Hoped to Pass Some of Bills
The bills which the Mayor charac-
terized as wholesale raid on the
city,s treasury have been introduced
by Tammany legislators and some OF
the Republican members from New
York City. Until the Mayors appear
ance here to-day there was a posi-.
bility that the Tammany legislative
leaders would put some of them over
Before the Mayor came here to-da,
Eion K. Brown. majority leader of the
Sc"ate, charged Robert f. Wagner. mi
norlty leader, who helps AL Smith anc
senator JIM Foley to run Tammany
Hall, under the direction Of Charles
+. Murphy, with "kissing his legisla
ton through" which is parlamentar,
pariance Tor vote trading.
The bills reported out, and which
were the chief cause of Mayor Hylan's
pant to-day, included increases in
salary Tor firemcn, policemen and othe,
city employees; measures for the pen-
slonIng OF every sort Of city cmployc
and q bill giving life tenure to the
hinety-t"o clerks in the municipal
courts OF New York City, who were
put INTO the classified list by the Mitcho
OF Office. This bill was introduced hy
senator Charles +. Murphy, Republi,
can, OF BROOKLYN. A Tammanv meas
are. IN which the Hylan administration
- no. interested, creating nftv.four
iobs for Tammany henchmcn. 10 bc
paid BY the gas company to inspec,
Nas mains, was reported out This was
introduced BY Senator Salvatore Co
niio, Democrat. Tammany and its
FRI ~ on the other side. are waiting
ior the moment when Senator Court.
iandt Sicol! is out Of the chamber Ia
PASS ne measure. He alone is against
But iammany stu has hopes Of nut.
ing 'hfrugn some Of the bills Mayor
Hylan came here 10 oppose. and .uh;ct,
ne characterized as a Wholesale raid
On the. citys treasury. But IL Tam
many docs. the Mayor will make final
appeal 10 the Governor
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