The morning times., 1895-12-10
FIRST MEETING HERE
ational Civil Service Reform
League to Convene This Week.
President Carl Schurz VIII Deliver
the Annual Address-Papers to He
Read at Afternoon Sessions

On Thursday and Friday OF this week
the National Civil Service Reform Leagu
viii hold IFS annual meeting at the Cusinos
Clubhouse. although the address of Presi-
dent Carl SChIrZ. which is the chiar feature
of the annual meeting. will be delivered
Thursday evening in Metzerott Hall. This
viii he the first time that the league has
ever met in Wagsh ington. and the local Civil
Service Reform Association. which IN
vItcd it here. has made every possible ar
rangenIenI to make the visit ur the dele
gates agreeable and profitable.
The local association viii give the off,
GERS and. nenhers of the league and invited
guests Il reception al the Arlington Hotel on
Friday evening. Col. Rice. uf the Civil
Service Commission. will entertain the
memoirs of the league at luncheon. and
so will the Rev. DR.. Alexander Mackay-
smith. first vice president of the Civil Ser
vice Reform Association OF the District OF
Columbia.
The headquarters OF the delegates will
be the Cosmos Clubhouse. and there the busi
ness sessions uf the general executive conf
miltceS. as well as the league itself. will
be held on The mornings OF eac. day, while
IN The afternoon papers Will be read and
perhaps SoGir brief addresses made IN
civil service reform. and these afternoon
sessions viii be open TO those of The pu bile
who are Interested un the subject. Presi
dent Srh:rz is expected sto deliver an
f'ltIt>tlttE IaluitsS. TtNItWiiiS iut ITbtttSs
OF civil service reform during the year, and
pointng'Iut lis course for the future.
Among the papers which will be read
a the AFTERNOON sessions of the league at
Cosmos clubhouse, beginning at 2:30 each
dag, are the following:
THE Reign ard Overthrow OF an Office
holding 0hcarChy.'' by ChGlcs j. Bona
partc of Baltimore: The Results OF Recent
Agitation of Civil Service Reform-Their
Value What Ncxt?'' hy Jonathan A. Lane. :
president OF the Boston NJ erchants' Asso-
citation; The Interest of the Workngman
ia Civil Service Reform by Herbert Walsh
of Philadelphia: THE APPOINTMENT and
Tenure of Posimasters.' by Richard Henry
Dana OF Cambridge: approximation i1 i.
the CiviI SERVICE by William Dudley
FouIkc of Indiana: ''The Recent Civil
Service Reform Movement in Chicago"
by John ". Ella of Chicago: The State OF
Civil Service Reform Sentiment in the
South by Herman Justi OF Nashville:
THE Important Function of Civil Service
Reform by +. l.. Siddous, secretary of
the Civil Service Reform Association, OF
the District of Columbia, and DR.. L. NJ.
Gallaudct. Of the local association, will
make some remarks on the subject of
'Civil Service Reform as Related To Educa-
tinual Institutions for the DeaG.'
On Friday morning the league viii elect
a president and vice president for the next |
year .lt aB executive session. Besides the |
members of the league there viii be at the |
annual meeting. for the first time. by |
special Invitation, representatives OF an |
the municipal reform organizations OF the |
country. ard other similar societies af-
filiatcl tD the National Civil Service Reform |
League.