PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF The National Civil Service Reform League HELD AT NEW YORK CITY, DEC. 9 AND 10, 1909 WITH THE REPORTS AND PAPERS READ AND OTHER MATTERS. PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE 79 WALL STREET NEW YORK CONTENTS Report from the Pittsburgh Civil Service Com- mission.... 15 9 19,65 19, 82 19 20 20, 40 23 37 Fourth Session: December 10-Minutes... Report of the Committee on Consular Reform... 37, 99 form in Dependencies... Special Report on Efficiency in the Public Service 38, 102 36, 107 The Administration of the Civil Service Law in 38, 149 The Merit System and the Census-Hon. E. ..38, 155 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 9 AND 10, 1909. PURSUANT to a call duly issued, the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at New York City, N. Y., the 9th and 10th of December, 1909. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions: ALLEGHENY COUNTY: Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead, A. Leo Weil, John D. Meyer. BUFFALO: Frederic Almy, Ansley Wilcox, John B. Olmsted. CHICAGO: Robert Catherwood. CONNECTICUT: Charles G. Morris, William S. Pardee, Gen. William A. Aiken, Prof. Henry W. Farnam. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John Joy Edson. INDIANA: Harry J. Milligan. LUZERNE COUNTY: A. B. Farquhar. MARYLAND: William H. Pekins, James W. Bowers, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Summerfield Baldwin, John Philip Hill. MASSACHUSETTS: R. H. Dana, S. Y. Nash, Charles W. Eliot, Morrill Wyman, Jr., James P. Tolman, Arthur H. Brooks, John Reed, Harvey S. Chase. NEW JERSEY: Edward K. Sumerwell. NEW YORK: Eldridge L. Adams, Everett P. Wheeler, H. W. Hardon, Col. Silas W. Burt, Hon. George McAneny, Charles W. McCandless, John H. Thomas, Charles C. Burlingham, Elliot H. Goodwin, Albert de Roode, Charles B. Marble, Samuel H. Ordway, Nelson S. Spencer, Edward Cary, Rev. Leander T. Chamberlain, " |