New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-07
Hy1an Bills to
Give Jobs to
Kin Denounced
Secret Lobby Waiting to
Back Measures Will Be
Met by Bitter Opposi-
ton From City Forces
Big Powers for Whalen
Mayors Brother-in.Law Is
Provided For; Police and
Firemen Resent Plans
From @ Sto6 Correspondent


ALBANY, April GA lobby working
from the New York City Hall is push
ing a group of Hylan administration
measures which have for their purpose
the rewarding Of favorites and the in
trenching of Hylans relatives in places
OF power.
In the next ten days this lobby will
be on the job in Albany, but when they
arrive they will find an equally power
full group, including policemen, fire
men and other civil service employees,
who are determined that the Hylan
program shall not go through without
q bitter fight.
A joker in one of the Hylan group
Of bills gives to Grover Whalen, Com
missioner Of Plant and Structures.
general supervisory powers over all
city departments. Another places
Irving OHara, Hylan's brother-in-law,
in line for superintendent of the pro-
posed division of detectives in the po-
lice bureau.
Other bills give permanency in ranks
to the police inspectors appointed by
Hylan's Police Commissioner, Richard
Enright; continue for all time the po-
lice reserves, and create park police,
which the members o. the New YORK
Police Department declare is the first
step toward letting in number. Of
men who cannot qualify for the police
Senators Charles C. Lockwood. Dan
iel j. Carroll, John A. Lynch and Sal
vatore A. Gothic have introduced most
of these measures.
Police to Protest Bills
Formal application has been made by
members of the New York police and
fire departments to come here to pro
test against the Hylan bills. The ap-
plications of the policemen were filed
with Police Commissioner Enright yes
terday, it was learned here tonight
The entire police department, with the
exception of the inspectors, are almost
to man against the Hylan measures.
The inspectors are concerned ovel
the bill making their tenure of Office
permanent. This has been opposed BY
the Lieutenants' Benevolent Associa
ton, the Sergeants' Benevolent Asso
citation and the Patrolmens Benevolent
Association. The last-named has Tough
desperately against the bill giving t.
the inspectors permanency OF tenure
This measure was introduced by AS
semblyman Leo V. Doherty, of Kings
County.
President La Guardia of the Boarc
of Aldermen protested to the Mayor
against the bill, and the Mayor tolt
him that if the measure came to him !
would be vetoed. But the patrolmel
are not trusting in Hylan's promises
The social secretary Of the organlza
ton, Joseph J.-O'Reilly, who is q civil
ian and whose job is not at the mere
of the Mayor, is here to fight the pas
sage of the bill.
Joker in Measure
O'Reilly also is out to kill anothe
Lockwood bill, which reorganlzes tn
detective bureau and creates division
of detectives.
At the time the bill was introduce
1T was made to appear that 1t was t
take the detective bureau out of tn
.-~hands Of Police Commissioner Enrigh
Now it transpires that the chief pun
pose, according to the representative
of the police organizations, is to plac
Irving OHara at the head of the city
detective bureau.
Until the Mayor was inauguratet
his brother-in-law was a patromal
.Hylan at once found we'll paying berth
tfor him.
5 ! The firemen of New York City ais
iare joining with the police in oppos
:tion. The Uniformed Firemen's Asst
iciation is especially opposed to Ser
'ator Cotillo's bill which legislates
scivilian, clerk in the firemen's relis
fund, into the rank Of Deputy FIJI
Chief, raising his salary. $4,000.
Since the inspectors bill was intr'
duced, it has been amended so tn,
Mayor Hylan can create as many il
.spectors as he sees fit. At first it ii
.creased the present number from min
teen to twenty-four. Now the sky
the limit