Show r. r PARK BOARD IN BAlANCE TODAY vV Meeting This Afternoon With rr Keyser to Discuss k i v i. Legal Status GIVES IN TO THE COUNCIL threat to Repudiate Pay Rolls Rols I i 1 Causes the Return rn of fv Tie The The uncertain status tatus O of or tho Uio board of or park parI commissioners and Its Is udden recession last night from Crom a bold hoM In Iii defiance of ot tho the council counci of or ortho the tim indicate that n It crisis In career tho tim board will bo be mot this afternoon wi when Its members meet with Commis elect 1 George D. D Keyser Kenser In an n of oC oftie effort to determine the real powers the tie board and anil Its relation to tho the executive ex ex- and 11 legislative Is tire branch of or tho thoc ho c city r government o as u embodied In the city commission The fact el that hat the constitutionality of oC tho the r la creating tho the board boar Is ques questioned ues la and the action of or the tho board In reSIstIng efforts acton to place It under th direction of oC an any authority other than thanH H Its have o ha giVen Riven rise to the report 0 11 In Independent Independent In- In tl at un unless ess t is reorganized as ns an dependent tat organization the present members will step out and let the city wil anc commission wrestle with wIh the park unhampered The meeting at which the tie issue is LObe io LO be bo raised ha has hag been called caled for lor 2 o clock o'clock this afternoon In the office of Mayor John S. S Bransford 1 Mr Keyser heyser the under who whoso Indi Individual vidual supervision the department of parks has been placed has been In Invited In- In to attend that ses session lon lie le has been Invited tor lor the purpose of discussing discussing dis dis- cussing In the conflicting portions of oC the park commission law and the commis commission Ion sion form of government law Jaw and endeavoring en- en to determine what position the tho board Is entitled to occupy in the new city government The attitude of oC the president of oC the park board A. A Fred Wey Vey Weyand and othern other n members embers of or the tho organization who contend that the park parl commission Is Isan Isan an nn independent bod body authorized b by law to to transact its Is business In its Is own owna a va without interference from 1101 rein an any other branch of the city government adds s to time tho bele belief that there may be tie occasion to fill some vacancies on the tho board or else dispense with it entirely entire entire- entre- entre meeting today does not result re- re ly lr y if It the suit sult In recognition of oC it I as an Independent Independent Ince- Ince Inde Inde- pendent bod body The law under which the park nark commission commission com corn mission exl t Is questioned on the ground round that It confers power upon an appointive bod body to le levy ta taxes es which is held to be unconstitutional The father ther point of oC conflict brings In the commission form Corm of ot government gov gov- law Jaw arises in the fact that the park commission la law was signed and became a law Jaw the da day day following the signing of the commission form torm of or government go law It I I Is claimed that the latter later places place tho park ark board under the control of or the cl city r commission but the provisions pro of oC the park law are held hell to conflict and gives the board Independent Independent Inde Inde- pendent power The Tho question queston Is whether the provisions provision of or the last signed law he repeal the conflicting portions portions por por- of ot the former tons After Her the cJ city had agreed to a ad advance advance ad- ad vance ance the board to tide It over o er until its is park parI lc levy could be secured with wih the understanding that the amount was to be returned the board boar refused reused to transfer the back to the ct city when the council counci wanted to show a bOO good balance in the treasury at the close of or time the councils council's existence When the park boards board's payrolls came care up a week eek ago the time council counci retaliated by bv refusing to approve e them The park board didn't have its Is funds in shape to pay par salaries and the tho es went without pa pay Yesterday Yesterday after a conference between the ma mayor or and members of ot the park board the latter later agreed to return the if IC the time council counci would approve Its Is payrolls An official notice of this was sent to the council counci la last t night and the rolls rols were e approved When hen the new city commission re recently re- re extended to the thc board the courtes courtesy courtesy cour cour- tes tesy of or an to make a recommendation rec rec- of a superintendent of or parks to succeed N. N Byhower tho the pres pres- ent Incumbent the tho board Intimated to the commission that it i would woul attend to the matter mater of oC park parl superintendent It Itself Itself It- It I- I self elf and that Mr Ir B Byhower howel was perfectly per per- satisfactory |