...could have had no doubt as to what would be the interpretation of the last sentence of ^his report: "Wo have come to the conclusion, and certify, that the...are administered in a correct and faithful manner." Now they came to this conclusion either with such an examination as alone could justify their putting...

...city; and he was able so completely to deceive them that they issued a " card" in which they stated that the "financial affairs of the city under the...are administered in a correct and faithful manner." They stated further that the debt of the city was almost twenty millions less than it was afterwards...

...thorough understanding of the situation ; but in some way they were influenced or deceived into reporting that "the financial affairs of the city under the...are administered in a correct and faithful manner." The committee stated that the city debt would be extinguished, at the rate it had been provided for...

...TO INiSPECT HIS BOOKS 145 may be, by a published " certificate of good conduct " in which they said: We have come to the conclusion, and certify, that...financial affairs of the city, under the charge of the controller, are administered in a correct and faithful manner. Certainly nothing could establish "...

...white-washing committee." may be, by a published " certificate of good conduct " in which they said: We have come to the conclusion, and certify, that...financial affairs of the city, under the charge of the controller, are administered in a correct and faithful manner. Certainly nothing could establish "...

...and these gentlemen declared in so many words, as the result of their personal investigations, that: "We have come to the conclusion and certify that the...are administered in a correct and faithful manner." So high was the standing of the men who composed this committee that the critics of the Ring were discredited,...

...listened to the assurances of Connolly and his subordinates, afterwards publishing this statement, " We have come to the conclusion, and certify that the...financial affairs of the city, under the charge of the controller, are administered in a correct and faithful manner." They made out the debt less than it...

...listened to the assurances of Connolly and his subordinates, afterwards publishing this statement, f'_We have come to the conclusion, and certify that the...financial affairs of the city, under the charge of the controller, are administered in a correct and faithful manner.". They made out the debt less than it...

...Taylor, among them — to look over the books in the controller's office, and to issue this certificate: "We have come to the conclusion and certify that the...financial affairs of the city under the charge of the controller, are administered in a correct and faithful manner"! At that very moment those books, if...

...Sistare, ED Brown, and Edward Schell — afterward known as the "whitewashing committee." They reported: "We have come to the conclusion and certify that the...are administered in a correct and faithful manner." The New York Times, with George Jones proprietor and Louis J. Jennings editor, was an uncompromising...