Evening star., 1898-12-05
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
Eighteenth Annual Meeting in Baltimore of
the National League
Program of Exercises Includes EIcc-
tiOn of Officers and Read
ing of Reports.

The eighteenth annual meeting Of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform Leags.e will he
held in Baltimore Thursday and Friday. De
cember IL and 10. Officers will be elected
and other appropriate business transacted.
The general headquarters of the league
during the meeting will he at Music Hail.
opposite the Mount Royal station of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The several
sessions of the convention will be pubuc
and the following program has been ar
ranged:
December 15-10:30 a m a Joint meeting
of the members of the general committee
and Of the executive committee at the as
sembly room, Music Hall. The following is
a list OF the members of these committees
as at present constituted: General commit
tee, Carl Schurz, New York; James p.
Iolman, Massachusetts League; Arthur
Hobart. Boston, Dana Estes, Brooklne:
sherman s. Rogers. Buffalo; W. W.
Vaughan. Cambridge: Franklin McVeagh.
Chicago; Charles b. Wilby, Cincinnati: J.
II. Patterson, Dayton: Henry Van Kleeck
Denver: John JOY Edison. District of Co
lumbia: Francis o. Mason, Geneva: William
Dudley Foulke. Indiana; ID. II. Taylor. Lu-
zerne county: Charles Noble Gregory Mad
ison; George A. Pope, Maryland: Henry
Hitchcock, Missouri; Henry Lambert New
ton; William A. Aiken. Norwich: r. Fran
els Wood Pennsylvania: +. NJ Moore.
Rochester: ]. W. jerks. Cornell University.
Executive committee-Carl Schurz. chair
man. New York: Moorfield Story. Boston;
Sherman S. Rogers, Buffalo: William A.
Aiken, Norwich; F. NJ. Shepard Brooklyn;
William G.. Lowe, Brooklyn: Charles J
Bonaparte, Baltimore: Everett p. Wheeler
New YORK: Silas w. Purt. New York. Dor
man b. Eaton. New York; Edward Cary.
New York; Charles Collins New York:
Richard Watson Glider New York. Wm.
Potts, New York; Morrill, Wyman. jr Cam
bridge; William d. Foulke. Richmond. Ind
Richard III. Dana, Boston: Lucius b. Swift
Indianapolis: Herbert Welsh PhiladeIphia.
Charles Richardson, Philadelphia: John "
Ella Chicago.
At o'clock pm. meeting of the league
Will be held at assembly ROOM Music Han
al which will be read the report of the sen-
retary, report of special committee on the
tWeifth census, report of special commit
tee on violations of the civil service rules
miscellaneous business: 3 pm annual ad-
dress of the president. Carl Schurz at Leh-
mann's Hail. No. So6 North Howard street
Second Day.
AT 1870 am, meeting of the league at
assembly room, Music Hall, the following
being the program: Election of officers. re-
ports from local associations report of
committee on resolutions, miscellaneous
business. One pm, a luncheon, by ladies
of the Arundel and Arundeu Good Coy
ernment Clubs, at the club house No 1000
North Charles street
At pm, meeting of the league at Music
Hall, at which the following papers will be
read: Colonial Adminstration-A Warning
from Spain,' by Henry Haywood Classic OF
Washington; "The Need and Means OF Pro-
viding Stable and Competent CivIl Service
for Our New Dependencies" by Dorman b.
Eaton of New York; The Murrain OF Spoils
in the Indian Service" by Herbert Welsh of
Philadelphia; Can We Entrust Our Army
to Spolismen?' by Charles J. Bonaparte of
Baltimore. A banquet Will be rendered the
visiting delegates the evening of the 10Th
at the Hotel Rennert, Saratoga and Liberty
strea is.