Proceedings of the Conference for Good City Government and of the Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League Held (Volume 3)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... PROCEEDINGS OF THE Third Annual Meeting OF THE NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE AND FIFTH National Conference for Good City Government, HELD AT LOUISVILLE, KV., MAY 5, 6 and 7, 1897. Wednesday, May j, 1897, 3 P. M. The Third Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League was called to order in the Hall of the Louisville Board of Trade by Mr. Frank N. Hartwell, Chairman of the Local Committee of Arrangements and a member of the Executive Committee of the League. Mr. Hartwell: In calling the meeting to order, I wish to state that it is only proper that a word of welcome should be spoken to our guests, and that that word of welcome should be spoken by the Mayor of Louisville. To the citizens of Louisville he needs no introduction; but to you, our honored guests, I have the pleasure of presenting our Mayor, the Hon. George D. Todd. Mayor Todd: It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our city. I have been connected with municipal affairs but little over one year; but I have learned enough in that time to be fully convinced that there is no city in this country which needs the benefit and experience that you gentlemen, who have made a study of municipal affairs, possess more than this city. From the beginning I have had nothing but what might be called contention. I went from a business house to the Mayor's chair unexpectedly. I thought the proper way to conduct a municipality was on the same business principles that any successful commercial house was conducted. I so began, and I was served with an injunction of the court and could not carry out my idea. The courts were sustained right along, and every turn I would attempt to make, if it was not a judge it was a contractor who would turn up. I have read, in many articles written by some of you gentlemen who are p...