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tion's Committee of Women's Clubs. The supply of these demands has been made possible through the kindness of public spirit of the following speakers: Hon. John C. Rose, Hon. Alford Cooley, Hon. William D. Foulke, Mrs. Oakley, of Philadelphia; Mr. John Philip Hill and Dr. J. H. Hollander, some of whom have addressed several meetings.

A large amount of literature has been distributed during the year, both voluntarily and in response to requests.

Pending the passage of the child labor law, the Auxiliary was represented by a committee at Annapolis, who testified to their interest in the bill before the legislature. Subsequently, in response to an appeal from the Charity Organization Committee, $100 was voted from the treasury to furnish pensions to families suffering from the enforcement of the law.

The Auxiliary has made its usual contribution of $100 to the funds of the National Civil Service Reform League.

In conclusion we would state that 27 members have been added to the list of the Auxiliary during the year, a testimony to the growing interest in the cause of civil service reform.

Hon. C. E. Buell, a member of the Wisconsin Civil Service Commission, gave the following account of the work of the commission:

I did not come here expecting to make any report for any organization in Wisconsin,-in fact came rather to listen than to say anything. We have a civil service law in Wisconsin which I am led to think is perhaps one of the best civil service laws that we have in the United States. It is copied very largely from the civil service law in New York but perhaps we have improved it in one or two respects. The question of civil service reform was not agitated very much in the state of Wisconsin. It came as an incident of other reforms. I suppose we are known in some respects as reformers out in Wisconsin. We certainly were the pioneers in primary election reform and I believe we have the best primary

election law in the United States, and it is a law where the voter can go to the poll and manifest his choice for the nominee of his party untrammelled and unhindered by anyone. That reform it took quite a number of years to bring about and as an incident to that reform the civil service law was passed without very much agitation. The law was passed two years ago last winter and it has been in operation about two years; that is, about two years since the law really went into effect. We have been doing as best we could and I think perhaps fairly well; but we were met by the situation that when the civil service law went into effect all the offices were filled on the spoils system and by the law those officers were continued in office provided they were able to pass a non-competitive examination. It has been the desire of the commission to fill the different appointive offices as they became vacant by persons without regard to party or faction within a party, without regard to religion or any other test, and I think we have succeeded, but there is still the old influence at work, the opposition of the spoilsmen, and we feel that, and it may give us trouble. But I think on the whole the outlook in Wisconsin is favorable and that a sentiment is being developed which will sustain us in the work which we are trying to accomplish.

SECOND SESSION.

PERKINS MEMORIAL HALL, Y. M. C. A. BUILDING, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7.

AT 8:30 P. M. the League reconvened at Perkins Me

morial Hall, Y. M. C. A. Building. Hon. William

Dudley Foulke presided at the meeting.

Mr. Richard Henry Dana, Chairman of the Council, read the Annual Report of the Council.1

Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney General, delivered an address.*

Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Governor of New York, delivered an address."

Printed in full at page 44;

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at page 102; at page 106.

THIRD SESSION.

IROQUOIS HOTEL,

FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8.

AT 11:00 A. M. the League reconvened, Mr. Dana in

the chair. Mr. Frederic Almy presented, the re

port of the Committee on Nominations as follows:

FOR PRESIDENT:

Joseph H. Choate,

FOR VICE PRESIDENTS:

Grover Cleveland,
Charles W. Eliot,
Harry A. Garfield,
Daniel C. Gilman,
Arthur T. Hadley,
Henry Charles Lea,
Seth Low,

Franklin MacVeagh,
George A. Pope, .
Henry C. Potter, D. D.
P. J. Ryan, D. D.,
Moorfield Storey,
Thomas N. Strong,
Herbert Welsh,

FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL:

William A. Aiken,
Frederick Almy,
Arthur H. Brooks,
Charles C. Burlingham,
George Burnham, Jr.,
Silas W. Burt,
John A. Butler,

Edward Cary,
Everett Colby,
Charles Collins,
William E. Cushing,
Nathaniel H. Davis,
Horace E. Deming,
John Joy Edson, .
John A. Fairlie,
Henry W. Farnam,
Cyrus D. Foss, Jr.,
William Dudley Foulke,
Richard Watson Gilder,
Charles N. Gregory,
Henry W. Hardon,

New York, N. Y.

Princeton, N. J.

Cambridge, Mass.
Princeton, N. J.
Baltimore, Md.
New Haven, Conn.
Philadelphia, Pa.
New York, N. Y.
Chicago, Ill.
Baltimore, Md.
New York, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Boston, Mass.
Portland, Ore.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Norwich, Conn.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Boston, Mass.
New York, N. Y.
Philadelphia, Pa.
New York, N. Y.
Milwaukee, Wis.
New York, N. Y.
Newark, N. J.
New York, N. Y.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
New York, N. Y.
Washington, D. C.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
New Haven, Conn.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Richmond, Ind.
New York, N. Y.
Iowa City, Ia.
New York, N. Y.

H. Barton Jacobs,

Robert D. Jenks, .
William V. Kellen,
John F. Lee,
William G. Low,.
George McAneny,
Henry L. McCune,
Harry J. Milligan,
William B. Moulton,
Samuel H. Ordway,
William Potts,
John Read,
H. O Reik,.
Charles Richardson,
Henry A. Richmond,
Edward M. Shepard,
F. L. Siddons,
Nelson S. Spencer,
Lucius B. Swift,
W. J. Trembath, .
Henry Van Kleeck,
William W. Vaughan,
Everett P. Wheeler,
Charles B. Wilby.
Ansley Wilcox,
Charles D. Willard,
Frederick C. Winkler,
R. Francis Wood,
Clinton Rogers Woodruff,
Morrill Wyman, Jr., .

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It was moved and seconded that the Secretary be directed to cast one ballot for the election of the gentlemen named. The motion was unanimously carried, the Secretary cast the ballot and announced the election of the ticket as read.

The Secretary presented the treasurer's report to date, and stated that as the fiscal year did not close until November 30, the Council had voted that the Annual Report of the Treasurer, to be printed in the proceedings with the report of the Auditing Committee, should include all receipts and disbursements up to and including that date.'

Mr. Horace E. Deming read the report of the Committee on Superannuation. A discussion followed in which the following participated: Pickens Neagle, Presi

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dent U. S. Civil Service Retirement Association, A. P. Davis, Chairman, Sub-committee on Personnel, Keep Committee on Department Methods, Richard H. Dana and Horace E. Deming.

Mr. Foulke moved that the report of the committee be accepted and its conclusions adopted and that the committee be authorized to confer with the sub-committee of the Keep Committee and report on further plans. The motion was carried.

The Secretary presented and read the report of the Committee on Resolutions. After discussion and amend

ment the report was approved and adopted.'

Mr. Foulke presented the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved: That the thanks of the League be extended to Governor Hughes for his inspiring address-so well calculated to aid the propaganda of the reform in sections of the country where it does not yet exist.

Mr. Wilcox presented the report of the Special Committee on the Civil Service in Dependencies which, upon motion was approved.*

FOURTH SESSION.

IROQUOIS HOTEL,

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8.

HE League reconvened at 3:00 P. M., Mr. Dana in the chair. Hon. William Dudley Foulke read a paper on "Restriction of the Political Activity of Officeholders." A discussion followed the reading of the paper in which Mr. Bonaparte and Mr. Dana took part.

Hon. John Lord O'Brian read a paper on "Competitive Examinations for Legal Positions." A discussion followed in which the following took part: Hon. Cyrus D. Foss, Jr., Mr. Ansley Wilcox and Hon. C. E. Buell.

Mr. Charles S. Fowler, Chief Examiner of the New York State Civil Service Commission, presented a paper on "Oral Examinations and Practical Tests,' which was

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Printed in full at page 61; at page 96; at page 112; at page 129; at page 151.

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