Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-06
OFFICIALS UNION.
Governor Yates Brings About q
Society Composed of State
Functionaries.
TO BE SOCIAL AND INSTRUCTIVE
Speaker Not Yet Certain About Those
Committees-Burton Whack
at the Governor.

nois Association of State officials has
been organized. 1t is composed of the
members and secretaries of all the
state boards and commissions. and the
trustees of the state institutions The
organization was effected Wednesday
at Il meeting held with Governor
Yates at the executive mansion The
new organization is to be non-politiCal
Every department was represented,
and the meeting was the largest of
its kind that has ever teen held at
the mansion. 1t was called 10 order
by Governor Yates, who spoke in part
as follows:
Governor Pays a Compliment.
81 have called you gentlemen to-
gether today for several purposes. In
the first place l think it is very de-
Sirable that as you are all connected
with the same great institution. and
indeed. are, so to speak, members o.
the faculty of the great institution
called the stare of Illinois. you should
be well acquainted with one anoth T.
In the absence of acquaintance hip
with one another you may perhaps o.
be aware of the fact. of which / am
both aware and also proud. namely.
that the members and secretaries of
the Illinois boards and commissions
and the heads of the Illinois dep r.
mentS and state institutions. conStj-
tuted a very fine body of men ana
women. l speak advisedly, as l know
that this is true. You viii find it to
be so after you shall have become
acquainted, nc l earnestly urge you
to do.
Also To he Educational.
in the second place, l am of the
opinion that ii is not enough that you
should be simply we'll acquainted.
have come to the conclusion to advo.
cate a series of quarterly meetings
1t, is important that each man con
nected as you are with one depart
ment of the state government shoul1
also know each man connected with
every other department and it is fur
Their important that each of you under
stand the subject of the work of each
and all the departments. This will be
knowledge added to acquaintance. This
knowledge can he acquired by having
read ut each of the quarterly ms etings
a series of I,apers prepared by repre-
sentatives of the different Institutions
and departments.
Organization Is Effected.
''In the third place l am of the Opin-
ion that in addition to the acquaint-
anceship mentioned in the first place.
and the knowledge mentioned in the
second, there should be, as an aid to
both of these things. formal asso-
citation" The governor then suggested
the measures that should be taken and
in accordance with the sugges ion IA
committee of three. consisting of +. ].
Murphy. of Will county; f. \. Snive-
ley. of Sangamon county, ard Waller
Woods. of Alexander county, was APP
pointed for tie purpose of organizing
along the lines suggested by the gov
ernOr. \ constitution was recommended
by the committee and adopted. and the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Bishop Sam
uel Fallows. Chicago; secretary, L. A.
Sniveley. of Springfield; assistant sec
rotary. Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, of Car
rollton. An executive committee was
also appointed. which suggested a pro-
gramme for the first quarterly meet
ing in April.