PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF The National Civil Service Reform League HELD AT CHICAGO, ILL., DEC. 3 AND 4, 1914 WITH THE REPORTS AND PAPERS READ AND OTHER MATTERS. PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE 79 WALL STREET NEW YORK CONTENTS. List of Delegates... First Session: December 3-Minutes. Buffalo Association.. PAGE. 5 7 7,64 78 Second Session: December 3-Minutes. Address by Hon. Michael L. Igoe.. Address by Herbert E. Fleming.. Address by L. E. Swartz.... Reports from Women's Associations Maryland Auxiliary New York Auxiliary.. Reports from Local Associations: Cincinnati Association...... Connecticut Association.. Denver Association..... Illinois and Chicago Associations.. Massachusetts Association... New Jersey Association... New York Association.... Third Session: December 3-Minutes.. Address by Hon. William Dudley Foulke.... PAGE. 56,98 ..56, 108 59,76 Resolutions of the League. Removals in the Civil Service-Supplementary statement of the Secretary on behalf of the Discussion following Secretary's statement on Fifth Session: December 4-Minutes.... -59, 139 A Constructive Program for the National Service -- Some Essential Features of a Model Civil Service Law-Mr. George T. Keyes... - 59,143 60 .60, 155 ....60, 169 Discussion of Mr. Keyes' Paper on Some Essen tial Features of a Model Civil Service Law..60, 181 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 3 AND 4, 1914. PURSUANT to a call duly issued, the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Chicago, Ill., the 3rd and 4th of December, 1914. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions: BUFFALO: Ansley Wilcox. CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS: R. E. Blackwood, Charles L. Capen, Robert Catherwood, Samuel Dauchy, John A. Fairlie, Herbert E. Fleming, William B. Hale, William B. Moulton, Mrs. William Severin, Russell Whitman. INDIANA: William Dudley Foulke, Lucius B. Swift. MASSACHUSETTS: Richard Henry Dana, William V. Kellen, Samuel Y. Nash. MASSACHUSETTS AUXILIARY: Mrs. Richard Henry Dana. NEW YORK: George T. Keyes, Harry W. Marsh. PENNSYLVANIA: Robert D. Jenks, R. Francis Wood. WISCONSIN: Glenway Maxon, Frederick C. Winkler. In response to invitations issued by the League to municipal reform associations and other bodies interested in the reform of the civil service, delegates were present from such organizations as follows: W. BUFFALO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Ansley Wilcox. COOK COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Francis Corby, Miss Anna Nichols. CHICAGO CIVIL SERVICE COM MISSION: John J. Flynn, J. L. Jacobs, Fred G. Heuchling. ILLINOIS STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: William B. Moulton, W. R. Robinson. OHIO STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: S. A. Hoskins. |