The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-01-04
OF the Great Civic Federation
Meeting TO Open Next

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/ Many timely questions OF national
import viii be discasnsed ana aetion
taken upon them at the eleventh an
Snual meeting of the National Civic
Federation to be held at Hotel AS
tor, New York, January u, 10 and
ia, 1911.
4 Among those who viii speak are
Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Mac
Veagh, w Mckenzie King, minister
Of labor, Canada; Elihu Root, Albert
o. cummins, Alton B, Parker, An
drew Carnegie; Seth Low. August
Belmont Samuel Gompers, Myron T.
Herrick, George wv. Perkins, James
n. Garfield. w. G. Brown. John
Mitchell, Samuel Untermeyer. VIII
liam D.. Foulke, Frederick n. JUDI
son, George B, cortelyou, James
Duncan, John Hays Hammond. En-
erson McaEillin, A Leo We'll, Marcusu
NJ. Marks, James o'Connell, Otto NJ.
Eidlitz, Waiter George Smith, P.
Tecumseh Sherman, Gilbert H. Mod
tague, Warren S. Stone. e. r.. A.
seligman, j. W. jerks, Charles l..
Jewept, John c. Richberg, Thomas
w. Sheldon, Ralph w. Breckenridge.
Nahum j. Bachelor, NJ. E. ingalls,,
Edgar A. Bancroft, William ID. Ma
hon, Theodore Marburg, Rollil S.
Woodruff, Launeelot Packer and
Leo S. Rowe.
The state councils of the fedora
ton, organized the last year IN
thirty-four states, will be represented
by delegations. The importance of
these state councils is indicated by
the fact that in nearly every instance
the governor presided over the in
ittal meeting and nominated the
members of the council At the an
nual meeting these councils will de-
eide upon the subject which they
will concentrate their efforts for
uniform state legislation and their
method of procedure. While at the
National Conference on Uniform
; Legislation, held under the au-
spices of the Federation, uniformity
was urged upon over fifty important
subjects, the discussions at these
meetings when the state councils
were organized conferred largely
around ten subjects, to-wit: Regula-
ton of combinations and trusts reg
ulation of public utilities, taxation,
insurance, banking, compensation
for industrial accidents, reform in
Illegal procedure, pure food and
drugs, uniformity in good roads
building, and automobile regulation,
and last, but not least, the COM
mercial bills of the Uniform State
Law Commissioners.
Governor Hadley Endorsed idea.
! Governor Herbert S. Hadley, OF
Missouri, said IN respect to this list
of subjects:
"There is no one topic on that list
which has any political bias. They
are all of the utmost Importance
and should be studied and acted
upon from a non-partisan point of
view. One reason why the uniform
fity of laws throughout the states is
difficult to secure is because polit-
ical parties rule them. The ques-
ton is not what are the merits of the
proposition we put forward, but
what are the politics of the man who
puts this proposition forward.
Measures are favored or opposed ac-
cording 10 the political complexion
of the proponents and of those to
whom they are proposed. This is a
mischievous system, which should
be put out of existence in connection
with such laws as those contem-
plated by the uniform law move
ment, and such body of representa-
tive men as the Civic Fed
Grafton has in its membership
can, working together, bring about
great reform in this matter"
Governor FavOrs the Movement.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of
Indiana, in referring to the import
lance OF this movement said:
Il realize that politics should have
no part in the enactment of such
laws as are desired by the people
who are working for uniformity,
Unless the states respond to this
movement and meet the need of it,
sooner or later we shall find our
selves hopelessly in the grip of the
general movemenf- where the peo-
pie will be compelled to act for the
relief which we deny them
No thoughtful man can consider