The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-18
MERIT IN OFFICE
A STRONG STAND TAKEN BY THE
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE
LEAGUE.
REPUBLICANS DENOUNCED.
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID THE
GROSVENOR FACTION IN THE
RESOLUTIONS.
A FAREWELL BANQUET TO CLOSE
Annual Meeting of the Association
ut Cincinnati Brought to a Sue
cessful End.
CINCINNATI. Dec.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 1.-THE annual
session of the National Civil Service
league was brought to an end tonight
by banquet given at the ST.. Nicholas
hotel. The principal speeches in re-
spouse to toasts were made by Hon.
Carl Schurz, J. R. Garfield, Herman
K. Rogers, of Buffalo; ]. w. Ella, of Chi
cago; Lewis B. Gunckel of Dayton;
Charles j. Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
and Lawrence Maxwell, of Cincinnati.
Judge w. H. Taft, of the United
States court, presided. There were
100 guests, including all the Hamilton
county members of the legislature, who
were invited on the condition that
their presence should have no signifi
canoe. All the speeches were severe
in criticism Of Representative Grosve-
nor, of Ohio, and Senator Deboe, of
Kentucky.
The first business of the morning ses-
sion of the league was the election of
officers. which resulted in the re-elec-
ton of Carl Schurz as president, by
reclamation. The remainder of the Of
ficers selected are as follows:
Vice presidents, Charles Francis
Adams, Boston; Henry Hitchcock, st.
Louis; Henry G. Haslea, Philadelphia;
Augustus r.. McDonough, New York;
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago; ]. Hall
Peasants. Baltimore; Right Rev. Hen
New York; Right Rev. P. j. Ryan,
Philadelphia; secretary, George A. Nc
Aneny, New York; treasurer, A. S.
Frissell, New York.
Executive committee, Carl SchurZ,
New York, chairman; Moorf1eld Storey
and Richard Henry Dana, Boston;
Sherman S. Rogers, Buffalo,; William
A. Aiken, Norwich; Edward M. Shep-
ard and William G. Low, Brooklyn;
Charles ]. Bonaparte, Baltimore; E. P.
Wheeler Silas w. Burt, Edward Cary
Charles Collins, R. w. Glider, William
Potts and Dorman B. Eaton, New
York; Morrill, Wyman Jr., Cambridge;
William Dudley Foulke, Richmond,
Ind; Lucius B. Swift, Indianapolis;
Herbert Walsh and Charles Richard
son, Philadelphia; John W. Ella, Chi
cago.
The report Of the treasurer, A. 8.
Frissell, Of New York, showed receipts,
$4,25495 disbursements, $3,878.82; bal
ance on hand, $376.13.
The report of the committee on resolutions
which reported through It's chairman, Charles
]. Bonaparte, Of Baltimore, was adopted as
follows:
The National Civil Service Reform league
assembled in this, its seventeenth annual
meeting, reminds the country of the specific
and emphatic pledges Of the last Republican
national convention, thoroughly and honestly
to enforce the present federal civil service
law and to extend It's operation wherever
practicable. The league confidently expects
from the president and demands from every
Republican senator and representative faith
full fulfllment of this distinct and solemn
pledge.
The league denounces any attempt on the
part Of Republican members OF either house
Of congress to repeal the law or embarrass its
administration, any modification of its
provisions, except to the end that the merit
system of selection for public officers and en-
ployes may be extended, and personal or
partisan favoritism in their choice more
thoroughly eradicated; and declares any at
tempts not only unpatriotic and unwise, but
gross and shameful breaches Of party faith.
of which no man Of honor would be guilty.
The league recognizes in the order OF
President Mckinley forbidding removals in
the classified service unless for good cause
and after due notice to the person accused,
a wise and just measure, fully Endorsed by
an enlightened public opinion. and 1t de-