CONTENTS. PAGE. Service Commissions Essential to Civil Service Reform-Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, Efficiency and Economy under the Merit System -Remarks of Hon. John R. Procter, Results of Reform in the Department of Agricul- ture-Address of Hon. J. Sterling Morton, 107 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER 10 and 11, 1896. Pursuant to call duly issued, the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Philadelphia, Pa., on the 10th and 11th of December, 1896. Among the delegates in attendance during the several sessions were the following: BALTIMORE: Charles J. Bonaparte, John C. Rose, Daniel Coit Gilman, Cleveland P. Manning, Wesley M. Oler, J. I. Cohen, G. Wm. Sattler, George A. Pope, Daniel Miller. BOSTON: Moorfield Storey, Harvey W. Shepard. BROOKLINE, MASS.: Dana Estes. BROOKLYN: William G. Low. BUFFALO: Sherman S. Rogers. : CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Richard Henry Dana, J. G. Thorp, W. W. Vaughan, Morrill Wyman, Jr. CHICAGO: John W. Ela, W. K. Ackerman. CINCINNATI: Nathaniel Henchman Davis, Charles B. Wilby. CONNECTICUT: William A. Aiken, Charles Amos Johnson. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John R. Procter, William G. Rice, John Joy Edson, Francis E. Leupp, Frederick L. Siddons, Adolf G. Wolff. GENEVA, N. Y.: Arthur P. Rose. INDIANA. Lucius B. Swift. NEW YORK CITY: Carl Schurz, Silas W. Burt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dorman B. Eaton, Everett Case, Alfred Bishop Mason, William Jay Schieffelin, George McAneny, Charles Collins, William Potts, S. P. Avery, Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Shaw Minturn, Henry Villard, A. S. Frissell, J. H. C. Nevius, George R. Bishop, Horace E. Deming. Women's Auxiliary: Mrs. W. H. Schieffelin, Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell, Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin, Miss Schieffelin, Mrs. Sylvanus Reed. PHILADELPHIA: Herbert Welsh, Charles Richardson, J. G. Rosengarten, Stuart Wood, James G. Francis, W. W. Montgomery, R. Francis Wood, Edward S. Sayres, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, William Waterall, Dr. John B. Roberts, Joseph Lapsley Wilson. ST. LOUIS: Henry Hitchcock. ST. PAUL: Rev. W. R. Lord. HARVARD UNIVERSITY: John R. Procter, Jr. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Henry Mears Stevenson. In response to invitations issued by the League to Municipal Reform Associations, and other bodies having the reform of the civil service among their objects, delegates were present from a number of such organizations as follows: BOSTON.-Massachusetts Reform Club: Andrew Fiske, Samuel Y. Nash. CHICAGO.-Municipal Voters' League: Edwin Burritt Smith. CLEVELAND.-Chamber of Commerce: William E. Cushing. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,-City Improvement Society: Mrs. Nicholas Williamson, Mrs. M. H. Hutton. NEW YORK CITY.-City Club: Robert Shaw Minturn. PHILADELPHIA-Civic Club: Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Mrs. J. P. Mumford, Mrs. Matthew Baird, Mrs. Alfred Harrison, Miss Frothingham, Mrs. R. Francis Wood, Mrs. Hampton L. Carson, Mrs. Theodore M. Etting, Mrs. Thomas S. Kirkbride, Mrs. J. P. Lundy, Mrs. Edward Longstreth, Mrs. N. Dubois Miller, Miss Ida Cushman, Mrs. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Mrs. C. Stuart Patterson, Miss Hallowell, Miss Nina Lea, Miss Mary Channing Wister, Mrs. Charles A. Brinley, Mrs. Charles Richardson, Mrs. W. M. Salter, Mrs. Joseph May, Mrs. R. Blankenburg, Mrs. Chancellor C. English, Miss Jane Campbell, Mrs. William F. Jenks, Mrs. Talcott Williams, Miss Edith Wetherill, Mrs. Leverett Bradley, Mrs. Richard Harte, Miss Frances Clark, Mrs. William Channing Russel, Mrs. E. C. Hewitt. Women's Health Protective Association: Mrs. Anna Townsend Scribner, Miss Elizabeth F. Elder, Mrs. D. Stuart Robinson, Mrs. H.M. Pancoast, Mrs. James Irwin, Mrs. Morris Jastrow, Mrs. Henry L. Childs, Mrs. Charles Richardson, Mrs. William Henry Kennedy, Mrs. J. F. Sachse, Mrs. Finley Acker, Mrs. Walter Erben, Mrs. H. L. Wayland, Mrs. Charles S. Hinchman, Mrs. John R. Whitney, Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburgh, Miss Lizzie Esterick, Mrs. Anna M. Green. Municipal League: George Burnham, Jr., Charles Richardson, J. Roberts Foulke, Joseph P. Mumford, John H. Converse, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, PITTSBURG. Citizen's Municipal League: D. D. Bruce. |