New-York tribune., 1921-09-23
Press Is Lying
About Budget
Now, , Says Hylan
Despite Examiners Report
That His Office Asked
More Money, Mayor Says
It's SsAbsolutely False
County Registers May Go
La Cuardia Wants Them All
Dropped and $5OO,OOO
Cut From City Record

Mayor Hylan at a meeting Of the
finance and budget committee of the
Board of Estimate yesterday again at
tackled the newspapers for "false state
ments" in regard to the budget request
for 1922 from the Mayors Office. The
committee is considering the budget re-
quests for the coming year from the
various city departments. The ex-
aminers' report showed that q request
for new clerk at $1,376 was made by
the Mayors Office, which would have
increased the appropriation allowed for
1921 Sy that much, but that a refusal
of the request was recommended by
the examiners. The Mayor yesterday
fatty denied that any such request had
been made.
ITO show just how far papers like
The Brooklyn Eagle New York Times
The Herald The Tribune, and The
World will go to make misstatements
about me and my administration" said
the Mayor, II want to call your atten-
tion to the misstatement they carry in
to-day's papers about the departmental
budget of 1922. The statement re-
ferred to reads: The Mayor made re-
quest for an increase of S1,376 over last
years figures for an additional clerk.
This is absolutely and unqualifiedly
false. The amount appropriated in the
Mayors budget last year was s8O,28l.
The amount requested this year was
exactly the same, but was reduced by
the dropping of vacancy which had not
been filled during the year. amount
ing to $1,376, ana a reduction of S75
thereby reducing the budget to s78,-
$780,"
The report of the Board of Esti-
mates examiner regarding the requests
Of the Mayors office for 1922 appro-
priations for personal service reads as
follows
"The existing pay roll condition is
provided for. The requested new posi-
tion of clerk at S1,376 per annum is
transferred to the Police DEPARTING ent
on January 6, 1921.
Personal service, 1921 budget. .s7e.681
Recommended for 1922. ....... 75,205
"The difference between the personal
service item of $1,376 and the total
decrease of S1,776 is made up from
cuts recommended in the Mayors re-
quest for other than personal service"
When the budget request of the Dis
trict Attorney of Queens was taken up
yesterday it showed an increase in the
personal service over 1921 of $60,697,
which was due to mandatory increase
in salaries and force imposed by Chap
ter 161 of the Laws Of 1921. F.. II.
La Guardia, President Of the Board of
Aldermen, moved to strike out the in
crease and let the personal service
| account revert back to the budget al
lowance of 1921, which was s56,097 for
rled, with Commissioner Frank X. Sui
livan, sitting for Borough President
Connolly of Queens, refusing to vote.
According to the Adermanic President,
this means that the District Attorney
of Queens will have to mandamus the
board for the increase in personal
service
The Aldermanic President recon-
mended that the Office of County Reg
He declared that the function of Regis
ter could be performed in the Office of
the County Clerks of the different
counties comprising the greater city.
There are three Registers in the great
err city. New York County, salary
$4,000; Kings County, $4,000 and
Bronx County, $4,000.
La Guardla also declared that the
budget request of the Office of City
Record could be reduced at least $780,
600 by abolishing lot of unnecessary
printing now provided by law. The
request of the City Record for 1922 is
$1,390,051, which is $4,000 under the
amount allowed for 1921. When the
vote was called for on the tentative
acceptance of the request, Commission
er Clarence H. Fay, who represented
Borough President Henry H. Curran,
said that he thought there should
be far greater reduction in the re-
| guest and he reserved the right to vote
| for. reductions later