Senator Plunkett: Ask him if there is not a great deal of church influence [in politics].
The Witness: Yes, sir, there is Trinity Church.
Q.: Which is the good, and which is the bad?
A.: I think Trinity is the bad.
Q.: Do the Trinity people own a great deal of tenement property?
A.: Yes, sir.
Q.: Do they comply with the law as other people do?
A.: No, sir; that is accounted for in one way—the property is very old and rickety, and perhaps even rotten, so that some allowance must be made on that account.
(Investigation of the Departments of the City of New York, by Special Committee of the [New York] Senate, 1885, 1:193-194.)
[158] See Testimony taken before the [New York] Senate Committee on Cities, 1890, iii:2312, etc.