New-York tribune., 1921-04-18
Hylan Appoints
Himself Aid to
Graft Probers
Says He Has Ordered All
Employees TO Cooper
ate Fully With the
Legislative Committee
Insists Hands Are Clean
Expects Startling Head
lines, Howevex to Excite
the People, He Declares

Mayor John +. Hylan took cog
nizance of the legislative inves tigation
into the city's affairs and the appoint
ment of a charter revision committee
in statement which he issued yester-
day. He expressed his willingness, in
this statement, to do everything in his
power to aid the committees, saying
that the members would find the finest
hotel accommodations and easy access
by motor car to nearby summer resorts
from this city.
He intimated that the committee in
vestigating the city would have much
time for the latter, when he asserted
that the Investigators would find this
city cleaner and better in respect to
moral conditions than any other CITY
in the United States.
In his statement the Mayor makes
but one reference to the proposed ex-
pendture of 100000, which he speaks
OF as waste of the public's money.
to carry on the legislative investiga-
ton.
Investigators Welcome
I'm the first instance" the Mayors
statement says, 81 wish to state that
everything attainable by such a char
ter revision committee can be brought
about without the expenditure of a
single dollar by conference of off,
cials Of the City Of New York having
practical knowledge of the subject
and legislative representatives free
from ulterior purposes and acting
solely for the benefit of the city.
These investigating legislative bod
zo
been so much malicious and systematic
anti. Hylan propaganda published in
the last three years by those response
Bile for these Investigations that the
people of the City of New York are
entitled to final showdown. 1t may
be expected, AS with the Almirall grand
jury and other inspired bodies, that
there will ensue much loud noise and
startling headlines in the anti-adminis-
tratlon newspapers about new kind of
overshadowng crime and what not, all
with the purpose of keying the public
up to high pitch and nervous appre-
henslon concerning their Mayor and
other public officials.
~ invite these bodies to center upon
those departments of the municipal
government over which l have juris-
diction, to reveal any official action on
my part which might, directly or in
directly, manifest in any degree dis
honesty or any form Of corruption
whatsoever. To facilitate their efforts
have directed every official and every
employee under my jurisdiction to fur
nish the heartiest and most helpful CO.
operation to either or both of these
bodies.
Fine Hotel Accommodations
"And I am confident that these two
new bodies will find this city cleaner
and better with respect to moral con-
ditions than any other city in the
United States, not excluding any city
or village from which the members of
the legislative committee hail"
The statement then concludes: "The
legislative committee will find in this
city the finest hotel accomm odations
and easy access by motor to nearby
seashore resorts during the summer,
the expense Of which the public will
philosophically bear as one more in
dignity added to many others upon the
City of New York by its upstate leg
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