The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-04
WITH 4 NATIONAL SCOPE
ORGANIZATION OF ADVISORY
COUNCIL OF THE CIVIC Fedora
TION HAS BEEN COMPLETED
ANNOUNCEMENT OF IT'S OBJECT
To Provide for Study of National
Questions and Crystalline En-
Iightened Public Sentiment
The Membership.

CHICAGO, June 3-The organization of
the advisory council of the National civic
federation was completed and announced
! today. The local organization has pro-
NOTED four national conferences on the
| subjects, respectively, of industrial ar
bitration, municipal reform, foreign poll
cy of the United States and combinations
and trusts. After the conference on
trusts last September it decided that its
national work could be more effectively
carried on through a national body, and
to perfect such an organization appointed
! committee with Franklin H Head as
chairman and R. M. Easley as secretary.
The prospectus of the organization
states It's object to be:
"To provide for study and discussion of
questions of national import affecting
either the foreign or domestic policy OF
/ the United States, to aid in the crystalli-
zation of the most enlightened public SEN
| timent of the country in respect thereto,
and when desirable to promote necessary
| legislation in accordance herewith
The plan provides for an executive
committee of thirty, an advisory council
of 500 and a large membership through
out the country, composed of repre-
sentative, practical men of affairs, ire
spective of party or creed.
The bylaws provide for the follow
ing standing committees: On foreign
relations, insular affairs, banking and
currency, industrial combinations, inter-
| state and foreign commerce, consular and
diplomatic service, labor, municipal gov
ernment, taxation, civil service, Indian
affairs, the negro question. Franklin H.
Head. chairman of the committee on or
ganization, in announcing the advisory
council, said:
1.-The manufacturers have their national
organization and meet annually to dis
cuss the questions that affect their special
interests. the agriculturists have their ma
tional grange meetings and farmers con-
crosses to discuss their interests, the
great labor bodies of the country have
their annual meetings devoted to their
special questions, also the National Bank
ers' association, American Bar assocla-
ton, American Economic and Social Sci
ence association, the great church bod-
les mercantile. trade and traffic asso-
Citations and many other strictly class or
Plantations meet annually or oftener to
discuss their various interests. The cb-
| ject of the National Civic federation, In
addition to creating departments to study
national problems, will be to provide a
national forum, by means of which the
representatives, of all these great divis
ions of society may come together and
discuss problems in which all have a com
mon interest. There are many such today
outside of the political questions, the So
luton of which such a body may assist
in an educational way The meetings will
be held annually, or as often as condi-
tions suggest. and in different localities
The organization will be absolutely nom
partisan. That there is field for such
an organization is evidenced by the SEQ
acceptances received on the advisory
council and the hearty Endorsement of
the plan contained therein"
The date of the first meeting and the
subjects for discussion will be provided
by the executive committee and announc-
ed later.
Among those who have accepted mem
bership ON the advisory council are:
Abram S. Hewitt, New York; William
W. Crapo, New Bedford, Mass; eX-Gov
D. Russell Brown, Providence, R. l.; ex-
Charles A. Schiren, New York; e. II.
Gary president Federal Steel company;
Robert Moran (ship bulder), Seattle,
WASH; Clem Studebaker, South Bend,
Ind; j. j. Hagerman, Anaconda, mines,
Colorado Springs, Col; ]. Sterling Nor
ton, ex-Secretary department of agricul-
ture; Aaron Jones, grand master National
Grange Patrons of Husbandry; w. d.
Hoard, president National Dairymen's as
sociation; eX-Congressman r. Breck.n-
ridge, cotton planter, Pine Bluff Ark;
b. Clayton, member executive committee
farmers national congress, Indianolo,
La; John S. Cunningham, tobacco plant
er, Cunningham, N. c.; E. L. Furness,
member of the executive committee of
farO1arS' national EIIrnaSCNiIia 10
Ind; John M. Stahl, secretary farmers
national congress; Jay l.. Torrey, stock
man; E. M. Barwyo, John G. Hanley
executive agent Farmers Alliance Indus
trial union, st. Paul, Mimi. ArChur
living Hadley, president-Yale university;
Jacob G. Schurman, president Cornell
university; Benjamin Ide Wheeler presi-
dent University of California; Thomas
j. Conaty rector Catholic university
Washington, d. c.; John F. Hurst, chan
cellor American university, Washington,
D. c.; James B. Angel, president Uni
versity Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Daniel c. Gilman, president Johns Hop
kins university; Booker 7. Washington,
William r. Harper, president University
of Chicago; Woodrow Wilson, head de-
partment of political science, Princeton
university; Samuel Gompers, president of
American Federation of Labor; Frank p.
Sargent chief Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen; John Mitchell, president of
Miners association; P. j. Mcclure, di-
rector in chief Brotherhood of Carpen-
Railway Conductors; P. H. MorrisSey,
grand master Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen; Samuel B. Donnelly, president
International Typographical union;
Thomas O'Donnell, secretary - Cotton
Spinners' association; Peter Ullmann,
secretary Textile Workers National
union; Felix cAdler, founder cand leader
Ethical Culture society, New York; f. M.
BTostol, Methodist, Washington, D. c.;
Francis E. Clark, president Christian En-
deavor society, Boston; Charles II Fow-
Ter, Methodist bishop, Buffalo, n. Y;
John Ireland, Catholic archbishop,
st. Paul. Mimi; Henry c. Potter, Epis-
copal bishop, New York; Charles F1eis-
John Lindsay Withrow, pastor Park
Street Presbyterian church, Boston,
Mass; Frank w. Gunsalaus, pastor Cen
trail church, Chicago. Charles s. Fair
James Phelan, San francisco; Henry R.
Wolcott, Denver, Col; Franklin Mac
Veagh Chicago; Isidor Straus New York;
D. NJ Terry, Detroit, Mich; Frank II.
Peavey, Minneapolis, Mimi; William Writ
Howe, New Orleans; Virgil P. Kline,
Cleveland; Henry B. Estabrook. Chicago;
William II. Baldwin Jr., president Long
railroad; A. ]. Earring, president Chicago
Minneapolis & St. Paul railway; NJ. E.
Ingalls, president Cincinnati Cleveland
Chicago & ST Louis railroad; Warren G.
Purdy, president Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific railroad; F.. P Ripley, president
Atchison, Tennessee & Santa Fe railroad;
Walker HILL president American Bankers
association: Charles F. Manderson. presi-
dent American Bar association; Charles
Dudley Warner, president American So
cial Science association: Richard T. Ely
president American Economic associa-
lean Academy Political and Social Science;
Albert D. Shaw, commander G. A r.
Watertown, n. Y; o. T. Corson. prec;-
dent National Educationa1 association; S.