Fourth Session: December 9-Minutes. . . . Reading of Papers by Mr. Frank M. Kiggins.. 36, 58 41 45 47 47,96 Discussion by Mr. Foulke... Mr. Dana... ADDRESSES AND PAPERS: Address of Welcome-Hon. B. F. Macfarland... .48, 130 .48, 127 .48, 139 .48, 106, 140 бо 62 The Extension of the Competitive Service-Hon. 67 Address of the President of the League- 75 The Present State of Civil Service Reform-Hon. Carl Schurz.... Address-Hon. William Dudley Foulke...... Restrictions on the Power of Removal-Joseph P. Political Assessments and Offensive Partisanship Addresses delivered at the Reception, Friday PAGE. 84 94 96 107 117 132 141 164 Hon. Henry L. West. Hon. Frank T. Dubois.. General Ellis Spear... 151 155 159 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. PURSU DECEMBER 8 AND 9, 1904. OURSUANT to a call duly issued, the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Washington, D. C., on the 8th and 9th of December, 1904. The delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations in attendance during the several sessions were the following: Jr. BUFFALO: Ansley Wilcox, William Burnett Wright, CAMBRIDGE: Arthur H. Brooks, Richard Henry Dana, Elliot H. Goodwin, G. V. S. Michaelis, James J. Myers, W. W. Vaughan, Morrill Wyman, Jr. CINCINNATI: N. H. Davis, Max B. May. CONNECTICUT: Gen. William A. Aiken, Edwin L. Chapman, Henry W. Farnam. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John Joy Edson, Weston Flint, Charles E. Foster, John W. Foster, William Dudley Foulke, Henry Haywood Glassie, Gen. George H. Harries, William Bruce King, Francis E. Leupp, Charles Lyman, Henry B. F. MacFarland, Charles W. Needham, Harry T. Newcomb, F. L. Siddons, William Simes, Thomas W. Smith, Gen. Ellis Spear, Charles W. Stetson, Simon Wolf. INDIANA: William Dudley Foulke, Harry J. Milligan, Lucius B. Swift. MARYLAND: David Ash, Charles J. Bonaparte, Wilson M. Cary, Theodore Cook, A. M. Elliot, George Frame, Daniel C. Gilman, H. P. Goddard, Dr. Richard Grady, Rev. Alfred Rodman Hussey, Dr. John T. King, J. Clarence Lane, Cleveland P. Manning, Henry C. Matthews, Edgar G. Miller, Joseph C. Mullin, Dr. Charles O'Donovan, Walter B. Platt, J. Wirt Randall, George Reuling, William Reynolds, John C. Rose, Edward Stabler, Jr., Philemon H. Tuck, Elisha H. Walker, Day Allen Willey. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF MARYLAND: Mrs. George Adolf Ahrens, Mrs. Robert Baldwin, Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Mrs. J. M. Boyle, Mrs. B. W. Corkran, Jr., Mrs. J. H. Cottman, Mrs. John V'L. Findlay, Miss Fowler, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman, Miss Elizabeth Gilman, Mrs. H. F. Going, Mrs. William Green, Mrs. Charles F. Habighurst, Miss Elizabeth Hall, Mrs. B. Howard Haman, Mrs. Frank Hambleton, Mrs. Alexander Harvey, Miss Haydock, Mrs. L. W. Hill, Mrs. William S. Hull, Miss Johnstone, Mrs. John T. King, Mrs. A. Leo Knott, Mrs. Guy Carleton Lee, Mrs. A. S. Long, Mrs. John R. Long, Mrs. Charles W. Lord, Miss McCandlish, Miss M. M. Manly, Mrs. Cleveland P. Manning, Mrs. H. C. Matthews, Mrs. Winfield Peters, Mrs. John C. Rose, Miss Florence P. Sadtler, Mrs. Edward C. Sandell, Mrs. Samuel D. Schmucker, Mrs. Kirby Smith, Mrs. Ellen W. Stabler, Mrs. Walter Swindell, Mrs. G. Lane Taneyhill, Mrs. Calvin F. Troupe, Mrs. Philemon H. Tuck, Mrs. Sidney Turner, Mrs. Charles E. Wayes, Miss Augusta Weber, Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler, Mrs. C. S. Wight, Mrs. G. H. Williams. MASSACHUSETTS: Arthur H. Brooks, Richard Henry Dana, Sinclair Kennedy, G. V. S. Michaelis, James J. Myers, Samuel Y. Nash, William Simes, James P. Tolman, W. W. Vaughan, Morrill Wyman, Jr. Miss WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF MASSACHUSETTS: Frances G. Curtis, Mrs. Caroline H. Dall, Miss Marian C. Nichols, Mrs. G. H. Parker, Miss N. P. H. Robbins, Mrs. Alexander Sedgwick. NEW YORK: Elbert F. Baldwin, Silas W. Burt, Joseph P. Cotton, Jr., A. S. Frissell, R. W. Gilder, John M. Gitterman, Elliot H. Goodwin, William G. Low, Arthur |