PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF The National Civil Service Reform League HELD AT PITTSBURGH, PA., DEC. 17 AND 18, 1908 WITH THE REPORTS AND PAPERS READ AND OTHER MATTERS. PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE 79 WALL STREET NEW YORK 1908 CONTENTS Report of Committee on the Application of the Merit System to the Higher Municipal Offices. 38, 100 Address of Hon. Morris J. Freiberg of Cincinnati. 38, 90 Resolutions of the League.. Fourth Session: December 18-Minutes.... PAPERS AND Addresses: 39,55 39 .40, 172 40, 178 Hon. Ansley Wilcox... Mr. Arthur H. Brooks. Resolutions Commemorative of: Dr. Daniel C. Gilman... Hon. Grover Cleveland.... Right Reverend Henry C. Potter... Dr. Charles Eliot Norton... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 17 AND 18, 1908. URSUANT to a call duly issued, the Twentyeighth Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 17th and 18th of December, 1908. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions: ALLEGHENY COUNTY: John A. Brashear, W. C. Coffin, E. G. Jenkins, William H. Stevenson, John D. Meyer, A. Leo Weil, Oliver McClintock, George R. Wallace. BUFFALO: Frederic Almy, Ansley Wilcox. CONNECTICUT: Professor Henry W. Farnam, Charles G. Morris. DENVER: Henry Van Kleeck. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John Joy Edson. INDIANA: Hon. W. D. Foulke, Harry J. Milligan, Lucius B. Swift. LUZERNE COUNTY: W. J. Trembath. MASSACHUSETTS: R. H. Dana, S. Y. Nash. PENNSYLVANIA: Hon. V. F. Gable, H. N. Gilkyson, W. W. Kincaid, Robert D. Jenks, Fullerton L. Waldo. NEW JERSEY: E. K. Sumerwell, Hon. Everett Colby. NEW YORK: Hon. Joseph H. Choate, H. W. Hardon, E. H. Goodwin, Charles B. Marble, Albert de Roode. WISCONSIN: John A. Butler, F. W. Burleigh, Irving M. Bean. |