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Show COMMITTEE IS READY TO REPORT John Pingree, chairman of the committee com-mittee appointed b Mayor A. G. Fell to investigate the administration of the commission form of government in this city, states that the committee commit-tee is ready to report. He says, how -ever that the report will not be made until Mayor Fell has returned from California where he was called to the sickbed of his son Arthur. It is not known when the mayor will return as the son is in a critical condition and it is thought that the mayor will not leave his bedside un-1 un-1 till all danger has passed Telegrams of the past two or three days are to the effect that young Fell is improving improv-ing Chairman Pingree states that Harry Har-ry B Craner, the expert accountant engaged by the committee to audit the books of the city for the past two or three years and prepare n comparative com-parative statement as to official administration ad-ministration of municipal affairs, has completed hit; labors and has handed his report to the committee The report re-port will not be made public in an respect until after it has been given over to the city commissioners It is anticipated that when the investigating in-vestigating committee meets with the citj board of commissioners the whole-question whole-question of administrative affairs under un-der the new lorm of government will be gone into and it is possible that the board of commissioners ma) require re-quire the committee to make investigations investi-gations outside of the financial end of the commissioners' policy. 00 |