Publications of the National Civil-Service Reform League Proceedings at the Annual Meetings of the National Civil-Service Reform League, 1884 to 1901, inclusive, (excepting those of 1888, '89, '90, '98; out of print). Civil Service Reform under the present National Administration. The Necessity and Progress of Civil Service Reform. By Carl Congress and the Spoils System. By Carl Schurz. (Address of 1895.) (Address of 1896.) The Democracy of the Merit System. By Carl Schurz. (Address of 1897.) A Review of the Year. By Carl Schurz. (Address of 1898.) Civil Service Reform as a Moral Question. By Charles J. Bonaparte. (1889.) The Influence of the Spoils Idea upon the Government of American Cities. By Herbert Welsh. (1894.) The Reform of the Consular Service. By Oscar S. Straus. (1894.) The Appointment and Tenure of Postmasters. By R. H. Dana. (1895.) Civil Service Reform and Municipal Government. Two papers, by Albert Shaw and Horace E. Deming. (1897.) The Republican Party and Civil Service Reform. By Henry Hitchcock. (1897.) The Democratic Party and Civil Service Reform. By Moorfield Storey. (1897.) An Open Letter to Hon. C. H. Grosvenor, in reply to recent attacks on the Civil Service Law and Rules. George McAneny. (1897.) The Need and Best Means for Providing a Competent and Stable Civil Service for Our New Dependencies. By Dorman B. Eaton. (1898.) The Choice of Correct Methods in the Administration of American Dependencies. By Elliot H. Goodwin. (1900.) Four Reports. Prepared by the Investigating Committee of the National Civil-Service Reform League. (1901.) Constitution of the National Civil-Service Reform League. Good Government: Official Journal of the National Civil-Service Reform League. Published monthly at 41 Wall St., New York. One dollar per year. Ten cents per single copy. For other publications, see third page. CONTENTS. First Session: December 12—Minutes, Annual Report of the Council,. Report of the Special Committee on the Civil 8, 29 8,33 Report of the Committee on Resolutions, Discussion of Consular Reform-W. R. Corwine Discussion of the Interest of Women in the Work 25, 83, 86 Discussion of the Insular Civil Service-Hon. John Address of Hon. Carl Schurz, at Memorial Hall, most Effectively "-By Everett P. Wheeler,. -By Edward Cary, PAGE. 53 58 63 102 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. PURS DECEMBER 12 AND 13, 1901. URSUANT to call, duly issued, the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Boston, Mass., on the 12th and 13th of December, 1901. The delegates in attendance during the several sessions were the following: BALTIMORE: Charles J. Bonaparte, Daniel C. Gilman, George Frame, Ira Remsen, H. Barton Jacobs, J. H. Hollander, Theodore Marburg, George A. Pope, Reuben Foster, Luther T. Townsend, William T. Brigham. BOSTON: William T. Sedgwick, W. W. Vaughan, Moorfield Storey, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Jacob L. Williams, Charles S. Thurston, Sinclair Kennedy, H. W. Chaplin, Henry S. Pritchett, Henry H. Sprague, A. H. Wellman, F. J. Stimson, Robert Treat Paine, H. P. Bowditch, William Endicott, Charles S. Hamlin, Henry Parkman, William Simes, Eben S. Draper, Arthur T. Lyman, Robert T. Paine, Jr., Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, Charles R. Codman, Arthur H. Brooks, A. Lawrence Lowell, Wm. Endicott, Jr., W. V. Kellen, James Ford Rhodes, E. L. Sprague, Charles W. Clifford. BUFFALO: Frederic Almy, A. C. Richardson, John B. Olmstead. CAMBRIDGE: Richard Henry Dana, Morrill Wyman, Jr., John Read, Archibald M. Howe, Charles Eliot Norton, J. G. Thorp, J. J. Myers, G. V. Leverett, James Barr Ames, J. B. Warner, Elliot H. Goodwin. CHICAGO: John W. Ela, Merritt Starr. GENEVA, N. Y.: Henry W. Nelson. Hartford, CoNN.: Louis R. Cheney. INDIANA: William Dudley Foulke, Stanley C. Hughes, Henry J. Milligan. NEW HAVEN: Henry W. Farnam. NEW YORK: Carl Schurz, Silas W. Burt, Everett P. Wheeler, Richard Watson Gilder, L. T. Chamberlain, Frederick Crane, H. A. Rogers, William Brookfield, Payson Merrill, Frank E. Anderson, Lynds E. Jones, Clarence R. Conger, J. Howard Cowperthwait, William G. Low, Arthur H. Scribner, Calvin H. Allen, J. A. McKim, William Potts, Charles Collins, George Foster Peabody, Frank L. Babbott, H. Langford Warren, S. F. Emmons, Lyman Abbott, Charles W. Watson, Henry L. Hobart, Samuel P. Avery, George McAneny. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF NEW YORK: Mrs. C. R. Lowell, Miss Lowell, Miss Schurz, Mrs. W. H. Schieffelin, Miss Schieffelin, Mrs. S. H. Loines, Mrs. Percival Knauth, Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF MASSACHUSETTS: Mrs. Henry Whitman, Miss Perkins, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Miss Foster, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney, Mrs. William Endicott, Jr., Mrs. William T. Sedgwick, Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Miss A. A. Bigelow, Miss Mary Coes, Miss Katharine Cowan, Miss Irwin, Miss Margaret Norton, Mrs. H. H. Sprague, Mrs. Moorfield Storey. NORWICH, CONN.: William A Aiken. PHILADELPHIA: Herbert Welsh, L. J. Lauterbach, J. Mac Allister, Charles Richardson, George Burnham, Jr., Leverett Bradley, W. H. Pfahler, Porter F. Cope, R. Francis Wood, Stuart Wood, John B. Roberts, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Horace J. Smith, Theodore Etting, F. W. Morris, Charles Chauncey, A. R. Montgomery. WASHINGTON, D. C.: John R. Procter, F. L. Siddons, S. W. Woodward, John Joy Edson, Adolf G. Wolf. In response to invitations issued by the League to Muni. cipal Reform organizations, and to other bodies having the reform of the civil service among their objects, delegates were present from a number of such organizations, as follows: |