New-York tribune., 1921-01-22
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Governor, in Message to
LegislatureMonday,May
Urge Naming of Board
Exclusively for City
From a STAFF Correspondent

ALBANY, Jan. 21.-Residents Of
New York will learn next week Gov
crnor Miller's views on the transit
situation in New York City and row
he purposes to bring about a solution
Of present transit difficulties. The
Governors plans in this direction will
be submitted to tho Legislature on
Monday night.
This document, by many thought to
be one of the most important which
has emanated from the executive
chamber in many years, was completed
by the Governor to-day. It represents
weeks Of painstaking work and is the
result of close study by the Governor
o. the transit situation.
While the contents of the message
are not generally known, the impress
sion has been created that the Gov
ernor believes the sanest and quickest
way of deciding the transit question
is by making a thorough investigation.
To that end, 1t was said, the Governor
w.uld recommend the establishing Of
commission with jurisdiction over
transit matters in New York City oily.
The commission would have nothing
to do with other public service matters,
as the upstate Public Service Commits
sion would inherit all the other pow
erS for the enforcement of the pubic
service commissions law now vested in
the First District Public Service Com
mission.
l. New York To Be Represented
The new commission would devote
itself solely to traction matters. Cos
zip has it that the City of New " TX
is to be represented on the commission,
which may consist of three members.
While there is no definite :nforma-
tion on what the Governor will recon-
mend in his message, there seems to
tc an almost unanimous inclination
OIL the part of observers toward the
belief that he will ask the Legislature
greater New York traction problem q
thorough airing by means of an in
vcstigation which would reach into the
remotest recesses Of the whole matter
The Governor is said to be of the
belief that no permanent solution OF
the traction question can be made and
that disputes over fares cannot be set
tied until all the facts in the case are
known and all the cards placed upon
the table. The investigation, if any is
to be made, would have for it's subject
the permanent solution of the transit
tangle and the fare problem.
A report is prevalent here that the
Governor may recommend that the COM
mission be empowered to determine
what shall constitute proper fares in
certain instances where relief is
deemed necessary lest some lines
should 60 into bankruptcy.
Ali Details to Come Out
In the event of transit investiga-
tion coming to pass the most impor-
tant subjects to be brought to light
would be those of capitalization, man.
agement of finances and methods of op-
Grafton on the part of the companies.
Complete data on these points would, it
is said, give the people of the greater
city, the Governor and the Legislature
q comprehensive understanding of the
city's transit affairs and whether or
not the companies are presenting the
facts in their insistent demands for
higher rates.
Governor Miller, in the course Of
conferences with legislative leaders on
the transit question, has made it plain
that in his opinion no solution of the
transit problem can be brought about
Until all the facts are known. His
views are said to be that the tangled
skeins of contracts granting rights and
privileges of one nature or another
must be unravelled before progress of
any sort can be made.