New-York tribune., 1922-06-08
|Hylan Prefers
Jail to Obeying
Courts Order
But Mayors Colleagues on
Estimate Board Keep Him
at Liberty by Approving
Transit Appropriation
Craig Learned His Lesson
Hylan Alone Votes ''No" on
Request for Expense
Money Judge Ruled to Pay

Mayor Hylan declared at the meeting z
OF the committee Of the whole OF the
Board OF Estimate yesterday that he
would rather 20 10 Jail for contempt
Of court than vote for penny Of the
salaries and expenses OF the Transit
Commission. The Mayors ire was
aroused when n request was presented
10 the committee for $1,000 900 10 meet
the necessary salaries and expenses
Of the Transit Commission for the re-
mainder Of the year.
The Mayor insisted that the COM
mission had "sauandered public funds"
on newspaper and motion picture propa-
ganda for which II had refused 10 give
the city an itemizeL bill. He pointed
out that the commission had asked
for 100000 since Il came into Office
and had already spent nearly all Of
that sum. The Mayor was supported
In his attitude by Murray Hubert,
President OF the Board Of Aldermen.
~ vote no." said the Mayor en-
phhtically when the matter was put 10
vote. 81 don't care whether | am
committed for contempt or not, won't
vote for this money. You Can do what
you like with tho resolution. The
Transit Commission has s1cnt more
than 100000 and now they are ask
Ing for another million dollars. | want
the people 20 know that they've done
nothing with the money spent so far
except 70 give out propaganda 20 the
newspapers and show a movie Of what
they're going 10 do
w. Z. c. Meyer. Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel. explained 70 the commit
tee that the Transit Commission al
ready had obtained a court order COM
pelling the Board Of Estimate 20 Ap-
prove the Si.500.o00 item. The item
was passed and approved despite the
Mayors opposition. Comptroller Craig
In voting for II said he did 80 because
he was ordered 70 do so by the court
The Comptroller has had some expert
ence with contempt cases. The bor-
ough presidents voted for Il, they ex-
planned, for the same reason.
Bids on Job Hylan Delayed
The Transit Commission announced
yesterday that IL will receive bids on
June 26 70 cover the laying Of tracks
IN the fourteentn Street-Eastern DIS
trict subway. This is the contract
which the commission readvertised
more than a month ago. after Governor
Miller had hinted strongly that h'
would remove Mayor Hylan from ofhc'
II deliberate official obstruction 10 th'
completion OF the line did not cease.
This line, which runs from Sixth
Avenue and Fourteenth Street under
the East River TO Brooklyn. has been
gathering mold since last October
while the Mayor and the Board Of Es-
innate have refused 20 take action on
the contracts required by law.
II Is almost six years since the hrs,
contract for the digging Of the tube
itself was let, but defaults and de-
layed action have prevented the finish
mark from being reached. Under a re-
letting, By which the city lost 81. 500 900,
tho tube was ready for track installa-
tion last October. and the tracks were
10 be ready July % Of this year.
Last August the Trnnsit Commission
received from the Board OF Estimate .
refusal 20 accept bids amounting "a
ss3, 1898. The board in April Of this