PROCEEDINGS

AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF

The National Civil Service Reform League

HELD AT

BOSTON, MASS., DEC. 11 AND 12, 1913

WITH THE REPORTS AND PAPERS READ

AND OTHER MATTERS.

PUBLISHED FOR THE

NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE

79 WALL STREET

NEW YORK

PRESS OF

GEORGE G. PECK

117 CHAMBERS STREET

NEW YORK

CONTENTS

List of Delegates..

First Session: December 11-Minutes..
Annual Report of Council............
Reports from Women's Auxiliaries :
Massachusetts Auxiliary.
New York Auxiliary. . . .
Reports from Local Associations:

Buffalo Association.....

Connecticut Association..

Maryland Association..

Massachusetts Association..

New York Association...

Second Session: December 11-Minutes..

Reports from Local Associations:

Chicago and Illinois Associations.

Cincinnati Association..

Denver Association...

Indiana Association..
Maryland Auxiliary..
New Jersey Association.

Pennsylvania Association

Wisconsin Association...

Third Session: December 11-Minutes...

Address by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin..

Address by President Charles W. Eliot, President

of the League...

Fourth Session: December 12-Minutes...

Address by President A. Lawrence Lowell..

Election of Officers...

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Treasurer's Report..

Resolutions of the League...

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Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on
Removals.....

Report of the Committee on Reform in the
Consular and Diplomatic Services....
The Growing Functions of the State and How
They are to be Met by the Merit System-
Hon. Garrett Droppers...

Fifth Session: December 12-Minutes....

The Merit System in Road Management-Mr.
Logan W. Page...

The City Manager Plan-Its Contribution to
the Growth of a Non-Political and Efficient
Personnel in Municipal Administration-Mr.
H. S. Gilbertson.....

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The Choice of Municipal Experts Through Com-
petitive Examinations in Philadelphia-Hon.
Lewis H. Van Dusen.....
How the Selection and Retention of Experts
Have Taken Contracts Out of Politics in
Philadelphia-Lieut. James Reed...
Discussion on the Selection of Higher Municipal
Officers....

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ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE.

PURS

DECEMBER II AND 12, 1913.

URSUANT to a call duly issued, the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Boston, Mass., the 11th and 12th of December, 1913. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions:

BUFFALO: Henry W. Sprague, Ansley Wilcox.
CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS: Samuel Dauchy.

CONNECTICUT: William A. Aiken, John C. Brinsmade, Charles G. Morris.

INDIANA: Joseph J. Daniels.

MARYLAND: Charles J. Bonaparte.

MARYLAND AUXILIARY: Mrs. E. Linden Mellus. MASSACHUSETTS: Arthur H. Brooks, Richard H. Dana, Charles W. Eliot, Howard R. Guild, Theodore Hoague, Archibald M. Howe, G. Harvey Hull, William V. Kellen, James J. Myers, Samuel Y. Nash, Grenville H. Norcross, William Simes, Morrill Wyman, Jr.

MASSACHUSETTS AUXILIARY: Mrs. Richard C. Cabot, Mrs. Helen G. Gillman, Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Miss Marian C. Nichols, Miss Elizabeth C. Putnam, Miss Helen L. Reed, Mrs. A. S. Parker. Weeks.

NEW JERSEY: Frederick N. Willson.

NEW YORK: Robt. W. Belcher, Roscoe C. E. Brown, Elliot H. Goodwin, Henry W. Hardon, George T. Keyes, William G. Low, Harry S. Ludlow, Harry W. Marsh, Samuel H. Ordway, Nelson S. Spencer, Hamilton B. Tompkins, Everett P. Wheeler.

NEW YORK AUXILIARY: Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler.
PENNSYLVANIA: Albert Smith Faught, R. Francis

Wood, Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

In response to invitations issued by the League to