New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-17
FOR GOOD CITY GOVERNMENT.
wAUKEE CONFERENCE OF NATIONAL
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia Sept 1s.-The Milwaukee Confer
ence Of the National Municipal League for Good
City Government will bring together large num-
Der OF prominent officials from Wisconsin and Min
nesota in the three days session from September
- TO Il There will also be a large attendance OF
active reformers from other parts OF the country
The list Of those who expected TO participate
in the discussions will include men known the
country over.
In these are included DR. washington GLADDEN.
Of the foremost writer's on the subject Of Inu-
nicips government, Seth Low and Bird S Coler
OF New-York:. Charles J. Bonaparte, the well
known reformer OF Baltimore. and George E
Hooker Of Chicago On Wisconsin night the Re
publican and Democratic candidates for Governor
Of the State Of Wisconsin viii address the meeting
One OF the most important and interesting
sions OF the conference in all likelihood will be
that devoted to the subject Of Municipal Account
ing The principal paper viii be read by NJ. y.
Baker. one of the editors Of The Engineering
News" Clinton Rogers Woodruff OF this city
secretary OF the League, in speaking OF the pros
poets for the meeting. says:
Each year witnesses further increase Of in
tsrest IN the work OF the National Municipal
League No better evidence of the growth OF sound
municipal sentiment throughout the country is
gesr to year TR prospects 81 for rnf the Saue
meeting are unusually bright Wisconsin has per-
nicipal government and its reform than any other
State in the Northwest
The coming meeting promises to be Of exceptional
interest, because OF the wide diversity OF subjects
that Will be treated and the personnel OF the men
who will attend. The League has established for
itself place IN the public mind and its efforts
have borne abundant fruit. though not always TO
the degree desired by those actively identified
with its work In its membership included
many men not only Of prominence in their respec-
tive communities. but OF National reputation for
their research into and writings the municipal
problem
The National Municipal League has been in
existence six years It the outcome Of the
National Conference for Good City Government
held in Philadelphia in January, 7s94 which
brought together from all parts Of the country
and who had long given special
thought % the municipal problem. It's discussions
showed clearly that the many and serious defects
recognized in American municipal institutions are
practically the throughout the country They
arise from permanent and general, not from tenn
form or degree. but the general situation is sub
stantaly Identical in all the great cities Of the
Union.
II was not until the Louisville Conference. in
1891 the preliminary steps were taken TO for
rruate a programme fer adoption and 70 construct
a pIat torn upon which municipal campaigns should
be waged. The ear4ier conferences were devoted
a consideration .Of actual municipal conditions.
and the papers read these meetings dealt largely
with the evils and defects Of existing forms or
municipal government At the meeting in Louis
VILE a resolution adopted providing for the
appointment OF a committee to report "on the
feasibility of a municipal prOgrI nne which will
ernbody the essential principles which must under
lie successful municipal government, and which
shall also set forth a working plan system con-
ditions for putting such principles into practical
oueratiCn."