The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
PLANS
 OF CIVIL SERVICE
Dr. Charles w. Eliot Is Re-
 elected as President
REPORT
COMMITTEES
Recommendation Is Made That Fourth Class Postmasters Be Included In the Government CIassi-
 fled Service

Baltimore, December 16.-A banquet was the concluding feature of the Civil Service Reform league conference here at the Belvidere tonight.
 At today's session Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, was reelected president, as were all the vice presidents, with the addition of Dr. Woodrow Wilson, governor-elect of New Jersey
 pr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, also was chosen as one of the vice presidents
 The report of the committee on reso- lutions recommends:
 1. The extension by executive order of the competitive classification of fourth -class postmasters.
 ?. The extension of the merit sys- tenn to the municipal service of the District of Columbia.
 3. Legislation giving the appointment to first, second and third-class post masters to the President alone, or to the Postmaster General without con- firmation by the Senate, as a necessary preliminary to classiflcations, under the civil service law.
 4. Legislation which. in accordance with the recommendation of the Presi- dent, shall bring within the merit sys- tenn the appointment and promotion of all federal employees, excepting only officers responsible for the policy of the administration.
 5. The extension of the merit system of appointment and promotion to employees of legislative assemblies.
 6. The effective regulation of the poit- ical activity of all non-political officers and employees.
 T. The enactment of a comprehensive civil service law for Porto Rico. 8. Renewed efforts to introduce and ex- tend the merit system in the civil service of states. counties and municipalities.
 That the Brandeis idea of efficiency in railroading can be applied to munich pal business by means of efficiency ex- perts working under city civil service commissions was the proposition ad- vanced by Robert Catherwood, president of the Civil Service Reform association of Chicago. MT. Catherwood read a pa per on the Chicago city civil service com missions experience in the past year in
 
 is regarded by the civil service reformers of the country as the most novel devel- opment in the evolution of the merit sys- | tenn.
 He expressed the conviction that work at Chicago had been so promising as to warrant a 1911 appropriation for the effi- cieney division twice as large as the 1910 appropriation, which was s25,000 He showed, among other savings, how $77,0oo was saved by carrying out such recom- mendations of the efficiency division as the re-routing of city teams in the bu- reau of streets.
 Other papers were read by John P. | Moore, member of the first Boston | finance commission, expoundng the Bos- ton plan, which provides that the may or's appointments for the heads of de- partments must be subject to the ap- proyal of the state civil service commits sion; James w. Peters of the state civil service commission, James w. Peters of | the Kansas City civil service commits sion, who pointed out the striking fea- lures of his commission, and w. Cabel Bruce of Baltimore discussing the Balti- more character commission and merit systems. | The conference ended with banquet | this evening at the Hotel Belvidere.