Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-10
CONFERENCE OF
GOVERNORS WILL
Be GREAT EVENT
Program For Three-Day Session
Shows Many Notables To
Participate
GOV. HARRINGTON TO
WELCOME VISITORS
Sessions To Be Held In Historic
Old Senate Chamber
At Capitol

beginning on MONDAY next, the
Tenth Annual Conference of Cover
nors will be held in this city in the
senate chamber at the State House.
There could -re no more fitting place
for the assembly than this historic
spot
The program is one of "Reconstruc-
tion Policies" The sessions will
cover a period of three days. Decem-
Der 16. II, and Is.
The Executive committee of the
Governors conference is composed of
the following:
Honorable William Spry, Utah;
Governor Arthur Carper, Kansas; Gov
ernor Richard l. Manning, South Car
olina. Treasurer, Honorable John
Franklin For, Essex building. New
ark, N. j.: secretary. Miles C. Riley,
Madison, Wisconsin
Many distinguished visitors are ex-
pected to participate in the program
of the session OF the first day. which
opens at ii o'clock, the Honorable
William Spry. Governor of Utah, pre-
siding, who is chairman of the Execu-
tive committee
The address of welcome will be de-
livered by Governor Emerson c. Har-
rington, of Maryland. and the response
will be by Governor Richard l. Man
ming, of South Carolina.
At the afternoon session. Governor
Samuel w. Mccall, of Massachusetts,,
will preside and the following mem
bers of the cabinet will address the
conference upon matters concerning
their respective departments:
Honorble Newton ID. Baker. Secre-
tary of War; Honorable Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy; Hon
orable Franklin X. Lane, Secretary of
the Interior; Honorable David F.
Houston, Secretary of Agriculture;
Honorable William B. Wilson, Secre-
tary of Labor
The following is the program for
Tuesday and Wednesday:
Tuesday, December IL
Morning Frederick ID.
Gardner, Missouri, presiding; RE
construction Policies: Site Education
al Policy" Governor Martin G. Brum-
baugh, Pennsylvania; "State Labor
Policy" Governor Emmett ID Boyle,
Nevada; Governor-Elect Thomas f.
Campbell, Arizona; "Workmen's Com
pensation," Governor James NJ Cox,
Ohio.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Theodore G.
Bildo, Mississippi; "State Land Pol
ICY" Governor Ernest Lister, Wash
ing, ION; Governor James Withycombe,
Oregon; "State Agricultural Policy
Governor W. L. Harding, Iowa; Gov
ernor r. G. Pleasant. Louisiana I;
Governor Elect ]. B. A. Robertson,
Oklahoma; Governor-E Elect S. r. Nc
Five, Nebraska.
Wednesday, December Is
Morning Governor S. " Stewart,
Montana, presiding. Reconstruction
Policies:" (continued); General Dis
cussions (a), Policies; (b). Co-ordina-
ton of Ma a.ional and State Efforts.
Afternoon Executive session.
The following Governors from the
several states are expected to be pres
ent:
Charles Henderson, Alabama
George w. p Hunt, Arizona; Charles
H. Brough, Arkansas; William ID.
Stephens, California; julius c. Gun
ter, Colorado; Marcus H. Holcomb,
Connecticut; John c. Townsend, Jr.,
Delaware; S. j. Cats, Florida; Hugh
NJ Dorsey, Georgia; Moses Alexander,
Idaho; Frank o. Lowden, Illinois
James p Goodrich, Indiana; w. L.
Harding, Iowa; Arthur Capper, Kan
sas; A. o. Stanley, Kentucky; Ruffin
G.. Pleasant, Louisiana; c. E. Mill
ken, Maine; Emerson G. Harrington
Maryland; Samuel W. Mccall, Massa-
chusetts; Albert E. Sleeper, Michigan
]. A. A. Burnquist, Minnesota; Theo-
dore G. BiIbo, Mississippi; Frederick
d. Gardner, Missouri; S. " Stewart
Montana; Keith Neville, Nebraska
Emmett d. Boyle. Nevada; Henry w
hCyCos 4tCW A1daupoAlAEs W01lSA -
Edge, New Jersey; w. E. Lindsey
New Mexico; Charles S. Whitman
New York; Thomas W. Beckett, NORTH
Carolina; Lynn ]. Frazier, North Da-
kota; James NJ. Cox, Ohio; r. L. VIII
liams, Oklahoma; James Withycombe
Oregon; Martin G. BrumbaHgh, Penn
sylvania; R. L. Beeckman. Rhode
Island; Richard 1. Manning, Soutf
Carolina; Peter Norbeck, South Da
kota; Thomas c. Rye. Tennessee; w
p Hobby, Texas; Simon Bamberger
Utah; Horace F. Graham, Vermont
Westmoreland Davis. Virginia; Ernes
Lister, Washington; John ]. Cornwell
West Virginia; Emanuel L. Philipp
Wisconsin; Frank L. Houx. Wyoming