The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-31
CRAIG CLASHES
WITH HYLAN AND
| QUITS MEETING
Mayor and Estimate Board
Members Take Budget
to Moran's Home.
CHASED OUT BY DOCTOR
Comptroller and Executive
Come to ShOwdown-Time
Limit Few Hours Off.

The break between Mayor Hylan
hnd Comptroller Craig that has been
foreshadowed for some time has be-
come absolute. The showdown came
last night when the Comptroller for
the second time in eight hours with
drew from a meeting of the Board Of
Estimate that had under consideration
circumstances that Borough President
Connolly of Queens described as "the
most ridiculous and disgusting that
had been seen in New York in a long
time"
All this occurred with the statutory
Limitation within which the budget
nust be adopted only thirty hours off.
The charter provides that the budget
and unless Aldermanic President
Moran. who is i'll, can be present to-
morrow serious difficulty may be met
n complying with the legal provisions
runless the Mayor and Comptroller
bury the hatchet. Other members Of
the board felt last night that there
was small likelihood of this.
The friction that mas been evident
Between the Mayor and the Comptrol-
Ter ever since consideration of the
budget estimates has been under way
became more apparent yesterday than
before. Comptroller Craig's DISPOSE
zion to walk out of meetings when he
Agaxv x,4N 10
the situation still more acute because
of the absence of President Moran
Continue I'm Moran's Home. E.
The charter provides that in con-
alteration of budget matters at least
two of the three members holding
three votes each must be present to
make a quorum. This forced Mayor
Hylan last night, when Craig with
drew for the second time. to request
the other members to go to President
Moran's home in The Bronx in order
legally to complete the days business.
When the Mayor and other members
Of the hoard. except the Comptroller,
reached President Moran's house the
matter that caused Mr.. Craig to with
draw and which involved a Police De-
partment appropriation was quickly dis
posed of. Mr.. Moran voting with Mayor
Hylan. One or two other items relating
20 the Fire and Street Cleaning de-
partments were similarly dealt with
and further business might have been
done had not Mr.. AIoran's physician
CORNER Health Commissioner J. Lewis
Amster. got wind of what was going on
siid Drvh- in upon the inpToHiptu meet
ing.
DR.. Amster positively forbade the con-
finuance and broke up the meeting. This
necessitated the abandonment of any fur
ther business and the board adjourned
to meet at 0:3O o'clock to-day, when
whatever further progress may be made
Will depend on how far the Mayor and
Comptroller can reconcile their differ
encsA
Immediately after DR.. Amster shooed
Mayor Hylan and the other members
of the board out OF the Moran home
he and DR.. Cornelius E. OGrady. the
Moran physician, issued a statement re-
Susing 20 accept responsibility for Mr..
Moran's recovery unless hereafter the
patient follow their instructions.
Find Moran in Nervous Condition.
"a meeting of the Board of Estimate" +"
said the physicians signed statement,
was held at President Moran's home
this evening. Mr.. Moran consented to
this meeting without first consulting
his attending physicians. AS soon az
they learned of this meeting they called
at his residence and found him In a
greatly weakened and nervous condition.
The reaction from the nerve strain il
euch that they consider 1t unwise for
him to engage in any further confer
snces until he has fully recovered his
strength, as the wound is not COM
yietely healed.
unless Mr.. Moran follows the advice
and counsel of his physicians they will
not assume any further responsibility
In the case. From present indications
lie will be unable to resume the duties
OF President of the Board OF Aldermen
Rt City Hall until the latter part of
lext month"
The relations between the Mayor and
the Comptroller. which all day had been
strained to the breaking point, became
more aggravated when remarks were
Bassed by each rejecting on the veracity
OF the other. The rupture complete
pame when the Mayor in effect, ordered
Comptroller Craig TO leave the meeting
10 get out, II he wanted 10. and go
where he pleased
The eliminating incident came when
the board had under consideration a mo-
tion 20 eliminate an item for S725, 900
from Police Commissioner Enright's es-
Inmates. Some days ago Commissioner
'Enright appeared before the board and
recommended that this item be elimi-
mated. He explained that Il had been
inserted in the early estimates In order
10 provide for 500 additional pAtrolmen,
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