The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
IMPROVING LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
Papers and Discussions at
National Municipal League
Meeting.

DETROIT, Mich, April 23.-This
evenings session of the National Mu-
hicipal league, which is holding it's an
nual meeting in Detroit, was attended
by $50 people. The principal paper of
the evening was the report of C. H.
Deming, chairman Of the leagues COM
mittee, on Nomination Reforms" and
the discussion which followed was led
by Prof. Hearing, of the University
of Wisconsin, and Prof Shafer, of Min
nesota.
Mr.. Demings report, in part follows:
How shall nomination reform be
brought about? Manifestly, in the first
instance, by Increasing the number of
chose who value the principle of rep
5esentation in government above par
dies as such, and by taking every avail
able opportunity to attack and weaken
Che Organization monopoly, which is
but another name for the bosses mo-
hOpoly Of nominating candidates to
public office. The nomination reform
ers believe that our government, ma
Iional, state and local, should be rep
fesentative of the peoples will"
New Officers.
The first business taken up was the
election of officers. The report of a
domination committee was adopted
without debate, as follows:
Honorary president, James G. Car
Ter, New York; president, Charles J.
Bonaparte, Baltimore; vice presidents,
Charles Richardson, Philadelphia;
Samuel B. Capen, Boston; Thomas N.
Strong, Portland, Or; H. Dickson
Burns, New Orleans; Edmund ].
James, Chicago; secretary, Clinton R.
Woodruff, Philadelphia; treasurer;
George Burnham Jr., Philadelphia; ex-
ecutive committee, Rorace E. Deming,
New York, chairman; William G. Low,
Brooklyn; George w. Guthrie, Phila-
delphia; Harry A. Garfield, Cleveland;
Hector Mcintosh, Philadelphia; Will
liam P. Bancroft, Wilmington; Dudley
Tibbits, Troy, N. Y; John A. Butler,
Milwaukee; Oliver McClintock, Pitts
burg; Harry T. Atkins, Cincinnati;
Harry B. French, Philadelphia; Albert
d. Hart, Cambridge; John Davis, De-
troft; James L. Blair, st. Louis; J.
Horace MacFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. !;
David H. Lawrence, Duluth; Elliott H.
Pendleton, Cincinnati.
A paper on Municipal Situation in
The Philippines" was read by DR.. Paul
Reinsch, of the University of Wiscon-
Sin. This paper was based on an arti-
Gle prepared by Capt. Edwards, chief
Of the insular bureau of the war de-
bartment, and was in part as follows:
In the Philippines.
1.-THE conditions in the Philippine ISL
Rnds are such that the establishment
Of municipal Institutions closely mod
eled upon those of the United States
would be very inadvisable. Neverthe-
less, it is in the municipalities that
the natives will have to receive their
first training in self government.
1.-THE simple institutions established
by the military, together with the bet
ter parts of the Spanish system, have
been made the basis of the present or
ganization of local government as ii
was provided for in the Municipal
Code Act No. 80, of the Philippine
commission. The most remarkable
feature of this code is that 1t does not
distinguish between urban and rural
municipalities. 1t comprises all under
one system of local government, which
comes nearest to our county system