CONTENTS. First Session: December 14-Minutes Annual Report of Council ..... Reports from Local Associations : PAGE Reports from Women's Associations: Buffalo Women's Association.... Address by Hon. William Dudley Foulke....... 48, 78 Address by Hon. Andrew J. Peters. Address by President Charles W. Eliot, President of the League.... Fourth Session: December 15-Minutes.. Election of Officers.... Treasurer's Report.. PAGE .48, 112 Report of the Committee on Superannuation..... 51, 119 pendencies .... 51, 128 Report of the Committee on Consular Reform...51, 134 Fifth Session: December 15-Minutes.. Resolutions of the League. The Administration of the Merit System in New 52 52,68 -52, 139 The Relation of Organized Labor to Civil Ser- - 53, 157 -53, 166 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 14 AND 15, 1911. PURSUANT to a call duly issued, the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Philadelphia, Pa., the 14th and 15th of December, 1911. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions: BUFFALO: Henry W. Sprague, Ansley Wilcox. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John Joy Edson. MARYLAND: Charles J. Bonaparte, Philemon H. Tuck.. MARYLAND AUXILIARY: Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, Miss S. G. Haydock. MASSACHUSETTS: Arthur H. Brooks, Richard H. Dana, William V. Kellen, Samuel Y. Nash, Moorfield Storey. MASSACHUSETTS AUXILIARY: Miss Marian C. Nichols. NEW YORK: Robert W. Belcher, Leander T. Chamberlain, Horace E. Deming, Albert de Roode, Elliot H. Goodwin, Henry W. Hardon, Samuel H. Ordway, Thomas J. Skuse, R. H. Valentine, Everett P. Wheeler. NEW YORK AUXILIARY: Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler. PENNSYLVANIA: Ellis Y. Brown, George Burnham, B. J. Costello, A. B. Farquhar, Albert Smith Faught, Cyrus D. Foss, Jr., James G. Francis, Emil Guenther, Clarence L. Harper, Robert D. Jenks, J. Percy Keating, W. W. Montgomery, Jr., H. C. Niles, Charles Richardson, John B. Roberts, Haseltine Smith, Ellery C. Stowell, T. Henry Walnut, R. Francis Wood, Stuart Wood, Clinton Rogers Woodruff. WISCONSIN John A. Butler. In response to invitations issued by the League to municipal reform associations and to other bodies interested in the reform of the civil service, delegates were present from such organizations as follows: THE "CHIEF": Burns Gillam. COOK COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Fredric Greer. ILLINOIS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: W. B. Moulton. INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS: Oliver C. Cutts. NEW JERSEY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Joseph F. Hoff. PORTLAND, ME., BOARD OF TRADE: Seth A. Moulton. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: John C. Black, John T. Doyle. |