CONTENTS. PAGE List of Delegates............. First Session : December 14-Minutes ....... Annual Report of Council .............. Reports from Local Associations : Chicago and Illinois Associations.. Pennsylvania Association ....... Wisconsin Association .......... Reports from Women's Associations : Maryland Auxiliary ............ Massachusetts Auxiliary......... Second Session : December 14-Minutes.... Address by Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith............. Address by Hon. William Dudley Foulke....... 48, 78 Coal Hod Politics—Hon. Winfred T. Denison.. 48, 87 Third Session: December 14-Minutes............ 18 Address by Mr. Moorfield Storey .............. 48, 96 Address by Hon. Rudolph Blankenburg........48,100 Address by Hon. Andrew J. Peters. ...........48, 112 Address by President Charles W. Eliot, President of the League. ....... .......... ...... 48,71 Fourth Session : December 15-Minutes...... Treasurer's Report.......................... 51, 55 Report of the Committee on Superannuation..... 51, 119 Report of the Committee on Civil Service in De- Report of the Committee on Consular Reform...51, 134 Fifth Session : December 15-Minutes............. 52 cague.................... 52, 68 The Administration of the Merit System in New York City-Hon. James Creelman...........52, 139 The Relation of Organized Labor to Civil Ser- vice Reform-Hon. Samuel B. Donnelly......52, 145 The Situation in Illinois Under the New State Civil Service Law-Hon. William B. Moulton.53, 151 The Spoils Raid in the New York State Service tions in City Government – Hon. Clinton Rogers Woodruff.........................53, 166 Charles J. Vir G. Haydockicharof field ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 14 AND 15, 1911. PURSUANT to a call duly issued, the Thirty-first An nual 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. 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. |