New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Tanmany Votes Rush Five
Measures Through Pen
sioning City Employees
Democrats Silent
To Meyers aunts
No Move Made to Advance
Propositions for Which
Mayor Pleaded
IStnf CorresponGeNcel

ALRANY, April 12.-Tarnmany's raid
On the city treasury continued to-day
despite Mayor Hylan's protests yes
terday. The Tammany men besieged
tho Assembly Rules Committee in a.
body and told the Republicans they
wanted the bills cut which the Mayor
characterized as "a wholesale raid on
the city treasury"
The Tammany men told every ore
who would listen that Mayor Hylan
uas "butting in" ard that he should
hs nunished for going over the heads
If Senator Robert F. Wagner and AS
semblyman Charles u. Donohue. the
minority leaders.
To-day,s action Of The Tammany
men. nc. only IN their appeal to the
Rnles Committee TO ignore the Mayor,
which was granted. but their actions
IN both the Senate and Assembly,
showed Tamman7 had decided to &C
cont the Mayors challenge and was
prepared to fight him TO the end.
The first open evidence OF 1t was
wben the bill OF Senator August Faren-
kopf. of Queens, providing for pensions
for employees of the Street Cleaning
Department in Queens County, was
nassed BY the Assembly on rapid roll
al withou. a Tammany man objectlng.
Tammany Men Vote and Smile
Tho Republicans snickered Some of
the Tammany neA. grinned broadly.
After couple OF more bills were
nassed Assemblyman Schuyler NJ. Mey--
er, Republican, Of New ork, arose ana
said:
ut was passed. answered Speaker
Sweet.
without objection ~
Eyes, without objection
Well said Mr.. Meyer, turning
toward the Tammany contingent, who
sat hack and grinned, this is some
What surprising, as this bill is one Of
the measures characterized by Mayor
Hylan Yesterday as "a raid upon the
city treasury And he asked that it
be not nassed. Didn't any of the New
York City Democrats object"
And the Tammany men grlnned, but
maintained silence.
And then four more pension bills, of
the sort characterized by the Mayor
as raid upon the city treasury, which
had been passed by the Senate, We're
passed by the Assembly, with the
Tammany men voting for every one of
them.
Among the bills passed were the bill
creating pension for employees in the
Kings County Court House, one Great
ing pensions for the Municipal Court
employees, another pe0sioning employees
of the Surrogates' courts, another
pensioning the teachers of Hunter 5
College, and, finally, one by Senator
James A. Walker, Tammany's Beau
Brummel, pensioning employees of the
Court OF General Sessions.
Retirement Fund Bill Changed
One example of how the city is being
mulcted was revealed to-day, when
Senator Robert R. Lawson, Republican,
Of Brooklyn, discovered bill he in
troduced providing for retirement
fund For the employees of the Kings
County court, which was to be created
by a 2 per cent deduction from the
salaries Of employees, had been amend
ed so as TO make the contribution only
per cent. Senator Lawson had the
bill restored to its original form.
Nor did any Of the Tammany men
move to put through the Hylan legis-
lative bills which he pleaded with the
Republicans TO pass when he came here
yesterday.
The most important piece of legis-
lation affecting the city introduced
this session was reported out by the
Committee on the Affairs OF the City
Of New York. 1t allows the New York
City administration to depart from
the pay as-you-go policy for the dura-
ton OF the war to the tune Of 49,
100000 annually.
One bill that the Hylan administra-
ton does not want, but which the
Tammany men Kissed through" the
Senate, and which they hope to pas
in the Assembly. is the Boyian tax blll
limiting the rate on real estate to $:
or each 800 Of assessed valuation ant
$40 on each 800 Of personal property