Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League, Volume 11The League, 1903 |
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Page 321 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love : I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 201 - In all the forms of government and administrative provisions which they are authorized to prescribe the commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace, and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands...
Page 168 - The first of these sections now provides that cities of the first class shall be of three grades, and cities of the second class shall be of eight grades. In the present view, grades of classes are but added classes. In these eleven classes the eleven principal cities of the State are isolated, so that an act conferring corporate power upon one of them by classified description, confers it upon no other. They have been isolated under the guise of classification, as their growth promised realization...
Page 183 - XI, to provide for the manner in which, the times at which, and the terms for which the several county officers shall be elected or appointed, for their compensation, and for the number of deputies that each shall have, and for the compensation payable to each of such deputies.
Page 319 - Illustrious man, deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind ; before whom all borrowed greatness sinks into insignificance, and all the potentates of Europe (excepting the members of our own royal family) become little and contemptible.
Page 168 - Cities of the first, and cities of the second class; incorporated villages and incorporated villages for special purposes.' The basis of the classification was unqualifiedly fixed by the statute which provided that all cities which then had, or might thereafter have, a population exceeding 20,000, should be cities of the first 1 66 Ohio St.
Page 167 - Laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation throughout the State, and no special law shall be enacted in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law.
Page 127 - Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report . . . think on these things." Free employment bureaus of the city are multiplying, and, though socialistic, they find some justification in the suppression of many swindling private agencies. How useful public bureaus can be in "hard times" remains to be seen. The new septic tank system of sewage disposal — by which a...
Page 239 - As this state of affairs is charged to the account of educated people, let us take a closer look. We see practically the following : The uneducated men, who can be easily handled by the machinery of the bosses, all vote ; most of those who have had but little schooling vote; less of those who have had much schooling vote; a college and university education is almost a certain guarantee that a man will not attend the primaries or perform his other municipal duties. This seems to throw the blame on...
Page 276 - All departments of the City Government have been operating thereunder during the past year. The change from the old to the new method was accomplished without confusion or detriment to the conduct of public business, and the detailed workings of the new system have progressed without friction. It is now evident that the system has proved an advantage to the City Government; that it has improved the efficiency of individual employees and promoted an intelligent and interested direction of their efforts...