Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-13
NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
Will Convene It's Fifth Session at
Columbus, Wednesday,
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DEL
EGATES FROM AMERICAN
CITIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE
PRESENT-AN OUTLINE OF THE
PROGRAMME PREPARED FOR
THE MEETINGS.

PHILADELPHIA, November IL
Questions of vital importance to Amerl-
can municipalities will be discussed at
the fifth annual meeting of the Ma
ticnal Municipal League, which VIII De
held in the Board of Trade rooms at
Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday of this week. More
than two hundred delegates from the
various affiliated organizations III all
parts of the country will attend, and the
topics selected for discussion appeal
most strongly to all interested in good
government Each year increased in
terest has been manifested in the
work of the League. The most impor-
tant business OF the coming meeting
is the discussion of the Municipal pro-
gramme, which aims TO present form
of government under which municipal
tiles will be least subject to corruption
and offer most advantages for sub
stantial growth. 1t includes munich
pal corporations act, which proposes
some radical changes in the present
municipal systems and makes ample
provision for municipal ownership and
operation Of franchises and for the re-
form of the civil service.
The programme will be presented as
the report Of the committee Of seven
which was appointed at the Louisville
meeting two years ago. A report was
drafted last year, but was not acted up
on, and it has since been carefully re-
vised and perfected. 1t will be present.
ed for adoption On Friday afternoon.
When the first session of the meet
ing is called to order on Wednesday
afternoon, annual reports will be read,
including the address Of the secretary,
Clinton Rogers Woodruff of Philadel-
phia, on results accomplished by the
League during the past year. Delos F.
Wilcox, OF Elk Rapids, Mich, will read
a paper entitled can examination Of
the proposed municipal programme"
Wednesday evening will be given ov-
er to Ohio night. James c. Carter,
president Of the League, will preside
and addresses will be made by Edward
Kibler, member of the Ohio Munich
pal Code Commission, Judge E. J.
Blandin and Harry A. Garfield.
On Thursday morning municipal in
debtedness will be the topic for discus
sion and addresses will be made by
Comptroller Coler. of New York, and
DR.. Albert Shaw, of the Review Of Re-
views. In the afternoon Horace E.
Denning, chairman of the committee on
municipal programme and Frank J.
Goodnow, professor Of administrative
law at the Clumbia University, will
read papers on phrases Of government
under the proposed programme. The
annual banquet will be held Thursday
evening at the hotel Chittenden, where
ex-Judge Gilbert H. Stewart will pre-
side
On Friday morning papers on Munic-
pal accounting will be read by DR.. Leo
S. Rowe, professor of municipal admin
istration at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania; E. NJ Hartwell. OF Boston:
Walter S. Allen, Of Boston; Prof. C.
III. Tooke, of the University Of Illinois,
and A. L. Crosby, formerly deputy
auditor of Cleveland. The public dig
cussion and final adoption Of the mu-
nicipal programme win conclude the
meeting ON Friday afternoon.