New-York tribune., 1921-02-02
Miller to Win
| Transit Fight,
!. Says Macllold
Speaker Claims Virtually the
I Entire Stale Backs Plan
!, OF Governor and Declares
I Higher Fares Is Not Issue
.Ff.ol'l a Sto0 CORRESPONDENTS

ALBANY. Feb. l.-These were the de-
t.Selopments here to-day in the New
fork City traction situations:
st FirSt-Senator James J. Walker Dem
socratlc leader. introduced resolution
gazing for legislative investigation
70 iearn who comprised the pool which
ne charges made a raid on the trac-
ytion market" In the four months fol-
Towing Governor Miller's nomination at
aSaratago.
Second-Brooklyn and Queens Repub-
lican legislators unanimously Endorsed
the resolution of Representative Volk
Ior 8 Congressional investigation of the
appointment OF Llndley NJ. Garrison as
9he Brooklyn Rapid Transit receiver.
Ihird-H. Edmund Machold, Speaker
ot the Assembly, declared that Governor
Mliier's traction program has received
almost unanimous Endorsement through
out the state.
No Fare Issue. Says Machold
the utterance of Speaker Machold
was the first to be made on the Cow
ernor's traction proposals by any of
the Republican leaders in the Legisla-
ture.
Nobody wants fare increase un-
cess II is necessary as an absolutely
tfast resort to save a transit SYSTEM"
SAID Speaker Machold. II am not in
favor OF boosting fares to help any
traction company. | know of no up-
state Republican Assemblyman who
would vote for an eight-cent fare to
'heip the lnterborough, the B. r. T., or
any other corporation
That is the point of this whole con-
ftroversy so far and it means nothing.
tIor this is in no sense fare issue.
ne governor is not proposing to raise
,1ares. What the Governor does saw
ana the thing for which | uphold him
rs that we must get all the facts. How
else can we determine what to do?
what l understand of the Inter-
borough financing is true, it is little
short of crime the way the New
OK CITY government has been cheated.
a. am informed there are subway con-
Hiracts giving preferential payments to
t,.he corporation on an entirely wrong
s.easls. ! cannot comprehend how the
Mcity could have accepted such a deal
. III commission such as the Gov
ernor recommends goes to New York
with authority to do something, these
unfair contracts can be abrogated and
fthe city protected. Certainly no one
would for moment consider giving
the Interborough an increased fare SO
long as such preferentials stood against
the city. The company must give up
its unfair advantages.
The city should have fair return
'SNIOSSJNSO
ways. The interest on the underlviny
bonds should be paid
-. This is my conception Of what the
+ Governor has recommended. This
( eight-cent fare cry, coming as it does
:; :. from one source in New York, en-
Il phasizes the fact that it is a purely
political cry. Those making 1t know
It is unfair. They simply refuse to be
fair. Evidently they would rather have
the situation drift into complete ruin
than to give up the political possibili-
ties involved and deal fairly with it.
believe the public will understand in
:. short time there is no basis for the
eight-cent fare cry.
There is almost unanimous tndorse-
mont throughout the state of Gov.
'rnor Miller's transit recommended
tions as set forth in his message. As
ier as | nave heard. tue opinion of the
upstate members of the Legislature in
torses the Governors policy as sound
n principle.
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