New-York tribune., 1922-04-04
Tanllnany Bill
Only Pay Act
Hylan Favors
Heartily lndorses Measure
IN Give Banton Aids More
Salary. but Opposes 10 to
Help Minor Officials
ANXIOUS About Own Raise
Envoy Visits Governor to
See if Mayor and Craig
Are to Get Extra $4,000
From O star Correspondent

Albany, Apr! 3.-Mayor Hylan,
.ho recently signed the bin Increasing
=, own salary from $4,000 to S25,o0o
ID who is greatly concerned over its
-. Informed Governor Miller to-day
ia, he disapproved of sixteen of the
..,.rv increases for minor officials
.,d employees of county Offices, over
usich he has no control.
Tho only one Of the salary and job
,..,sssing bills the Mayor approved
u.s that creating six new places for
-.umanv men. under District Attor-
nov Bsnton, at salaries ranging from
q 800 to $4,000, and increasing the
..,.,iss Of other Tammany men now
...r;no as first assistants to Mr.. Ban
-, This bill, while it was sponsored
bv Republican, was regarded here as
measure having the Endorsement of
your.eenth Street 1t increased the
.,ss Of first assistant district attor-
news from fourteen to twenty and pro-
,;dsd that three of the assistants
should receive $4,000 a year, eight
$4,000 and nine $500.
Returns Two Without Note
Two Of the nineteen county salary
,,;sing and Job creating bills the
Navor sent back without note of either
approval or disapproval. These two
bills would have increased the salary
~ the Bronx District Attorney from
en- mo TO $4,000 the figure which
.sree Of the assistants under MIR Ban
I'm would be paid if tho Governor
signs the bill approved by the Mayor
md would allow the surrorates of
Kings. Bronx, Queens and Richmond
counties additional compensation for
service in attending the drawing of
Jurors.
After the Governor sent tho nineteen
county salary and Job increasing bills
10 the Mayor, which he explained he
aid because the city would have to foot
the bills, the Mayor signed the bill in
creasine his own salary and that of
Controller Craig from $4,000 to $25,-
900 and doubling that of President
Hubert ard the Board Of Aldermen.
Immediately thereafter man high
in the councils of Tammany inquired
at the Executive Chamber when the
Governor was going to act on the
Mayors salary increase bill. The
Tammany man was told that all meas
ures increasing the salaries OF New
York City officials would Ea acted on
at once. 1t is no secret that the Mayor
ard his friends are concerned over
what the Governor viii do 10 the meas
ure, and wires are being pulled to get
favorable action on the bill
Opposes Small Increases
The sixteen measures which failed
TO find favor with the Mayor in
creased proposed salary for minor Of
fcals and employees of the District
Attorneys ofHce of New York, Kings
and the Bronx; increase the Bronx Sur
rogates salary from $4,000 to S17.-
OOO authorizes the New York County
District Attorney 10 name an un-
limited number Of deputy assist
ant district attorenys; increases
the salary of the Kings County
Clerk and raises for several en-
ployees OF his office and similar grants
for the staff Of the Bronx County
Clerks office. Others which would
benefit were the bills to become law
are Offices of the New York County
Courts Of General Sessions; clerks and
cller of the Bronx County Court en-
ployees Of the Kings County Regis
ter's Office and the Assistant Public
Administrator OF New York County.