New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-21
THE WORK AT CHAUTAUQUA
MANY ADDRESSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
PROFESSOR COMMONS. or INDIANA ON PFofo''
rIoNsL REPRESENTATIONS IL

Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TEIIi~SE.1

fbou,opoua y H. July .O.--Thc Boys ''h6''H'
This morning held an executive SESSION. the .l''r
taken up with n parliamentary QUIZ o. ~ "7 "
who has returned from Chicago. Where Nv ,"" %
nlovinp with the Yale law school team III '"' NV
collegiate championship games. Will assume 'Hr o'"'e
of president during the next ''rih' !" III" r. =,
President william ;. Morgan. M hc"''N -, .
cap,oln of tho ChautauGua team TINS N''>o"'
first game will be PLAYED on SATURDAY WI" '''
field nine /. V. Flager gave lecture lI'' ,i'''' :.
ON The Music Of Richard Wagner me No
Climb held its first meeting this morning III III" 49,,
Of Philosophy and presided over by MIS- ,",'''
Huntington Miller. The address was BY MIS- Iha,,
p.,,o, n, parliamentary law. A parliamentary ohh
followed and some amusing Instances III coih""'
p.actics were given. The girls ou'ioo" ny,
Normal Hall this morning when the e'mca vi ""
schoolroom was the subject Of an address, ps Mis-
Alice Freeman Palmer -,
Tho organ,zation of the American Institute OF
Sociology was completed today. DR.. JOSIAH oro"s.
socrotarv OF the Evangelical Alliance and author u
I. O,r Country,' and the New Era made the open
ing address and spoke Of the great Sgnihcancc ann
possibilities Of the institute. Dr. James ~ ni'.
of Oberln Ohio. followed in an address wmch en.'''
heorty applause DR.. Richard T. Ely. III AN aoureSS
an tho need OF the study Of social science pE tue
Christian minister said the Bible cannot Do i"!
understood without "a profound knowledge OF s"ca'
sc,ence If was because Christ so fun OF the
social spirit that he gove broad an extension "
the commands OF Moses. prIfouho s'uu! Vi ~, ="
science In its broadest aspects Will show Us '"".
pnyate property has been established ana deVeiop'"
AMI is maintained primarily ior so''' p"P
and not for individual purposes
The officers elected to-day are: President Rch""
T. Ely: secretary Professor John Il. Commons Bloom
inrton Ind vice presidents If The INSTITUTE n''"op
Jobp II Vincent Buffalo: the Rev. JOSIAH '''ro'l''
Now York: the Rev. Philip ;. MoX0ui, bos'o'' Ia"
Rev John H. Barrows Chicago j. H. "ail1Sch Ct
1ouis The principal of instruction ana oroa"@'"o"
f. Dr. g. d. HERON, of Iowa University "ii""'"'
Iowa. 49,
Professor John r. Commons, oil lhoiaha 'h'No''N
on the subject Of proportional reP'es'"'"'" " =
form Of legislatures. said tbs gerry lhahde' Ia" i
ared rsnrcscntation unrcprcsentativc. The present
Congress- II the vote were III prol"'uo" ~ Wv
ronnlar vote would have Democratic minority OF
twenty eight instead a majority OF scVeiN'H'"''
nor,ional representation does away with the district
svstem elects representatives on general ticket for
the State AT large and distributes candidates among
nartjes in proportion to the popular vote oil -,
parties Exact justice is thus secured among 80, az
parties and Legislatures become ,rnE
repSesentatoD were that II favors the independence
of the voter at the expense OF the slrlS maj
since 1t gives the voter the power 10 POI" ,o rc DO pc
ticket without boiling the party rue boilers 40 no.
hold the balance Of power and the opposite party
would not elect It's candidate which II bolted, Dut
Would simply put In independent OF It's own par |,
instead of the nominee of the party ma nn, ~ ~
gives also the advantage Of the English Principe "l
non-rcsidency. Mckinley was dsienteu i9r noiEivS
because he was gcrrymandercd into Demo ~ II
district This system wOuld max" Snch >ltua
impossiblc Minority parties and new parties Wo"Iu
be OF sending their aDlest representatives "i" W
Professor George II. Palmer, Of Harvard. 'o,aaA
delivered the fourth lecture on the Ethics Oh treasure