DIRECTORY OF STATE PRISONS AND STATE REFORMATORY OR INTERMEDIATE PRISONS, Concluded.

XVII.

Minutes and Discussions.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

FIRST SESSION.

Friday, May 24, 1895.

The twenty-second annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction was opened on Friday, May 24, 1895, in the United Church, New Haven, Conn.

The Conference was called to order by the chairman of the Local Committee, Judge Francis Wayland, with the following words: "We are assembled to-night to welcome to this city the delegates to the twenty-second session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, a body made up of members of charitable and correctional institutions throughout the United States and of delegates appointed by the governors of the various States. The subjects to be treated are those vitally connected with the wide field of philanthropy. They are to be treated by experts, by men of acknowledged authority in the departments which they represent; and the sessions, to which all are invited, will be of great interest.

"The welcome on the part of the city will be made by our honored mayor, A. C. Hendrick, and on the part of Yale University by President Timothy Dwight. Rev. D. M. James will offer the opening prayer."

After the opening prayer the mayor spoke a brief word of welcome. He was followed by President Dwight.

President DWIGHT.—Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,— It is to us a matter of regret that the chief officers of the State are not present to welcome you within the borders of the State. But in our early history we constituted an independent colony, finally

giving up our rights and privileges in the spirit of Christian love to our neighbors to come under the sway of one government, which united the two colonies. We may feel, however, this evening that we belong to the old New Haven colony, and that his honor the mayor, who has just addressed you, is indeed not the mayor of the city, but the governor of the colony; and thus you have received a welcome within the borders of this Commonwealth, as you have received a welcome to this city of our home.

But I am reminded not only of the exaltation of his honor the mayor as centring the government in himself, but I recognize fully the significant position which I hold as representing the university. The university is a part of New Haven, but not the whole of it. If the university were to disappear, New Haven would exist. It would not be so celebrated a piace perhaps as it is now. It would not be to the degree it now is, the "home of learning," as it has been called; but it would exist.

I have only the right and privilege to bid you welcome to one element in the city life, but in the name of the university I give you a cordial welcome to that part.

We give you the freedom of the university. We shall keep open doors for you to visit all our buildings as you may have leisure and inclination. We hope that you will take with you a pleasant impression, and that you will see we are all working together for the upbuilding of righteousness and peace in the land. The home of learning comes close to the home of the people, and the homes of the people are represented in the home of learning. The joy that we have in this university, as in all universities, is that we are sending forth, according to our ability and as the results of our searchings, knowledge and truth to build up the life of the great community in the nation.

We welcome you to our university because you come from all parts of the country; and our university is, perhaps, in a truer sense than any other, a national university, which has its representatives coming to it from all parts of the nation. We trust that you will find even in your brief visit and as you walk through our grounds and buildings that the spirit of the university is the spirit of love for all parts of the nation. I trust that your meetings will be exceedingly pleasant to you, and that you will carry away with you the feeling that this is a beautiful place, and that it is a hospitable place, and that it is a place in which in some measure the true theories of the life of the people are carried out. I bid you welcome to the university.

The address of the President of the Conference, Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, was then made (page 1).

Adjourned at 9.15 P.M. to a reception given at Warner Hall by the Local Committee.

SECOND SESSION.

Saturday morning, May 25.

The Conference was called to order at 9.30 A.M. by the President. Prayer was offered by Rev. Newman Smyth.

The subject for the morning was the Report of the Committee on Reports from States, H. H. Hart, chairman. Mr. Hart, in presenting the individual reports, said: " Formerly we asked State Secretaries to give us a general report and a statistical report. This year the committee has asked the four hundred State institutions of the country for statistical reports. These reports will be presented in the form of charts, which will afterward be printed in the Proceedings" (page 398).

Reports from Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, and District of Columbia were then read (page 319).

Mr. A. O. CROZIER, Michigan.- We have noticed with regret the absence of our friend Mr. John Glenn, a member of the Executive Committee; and, as he is prevented from attendance by severe sickness, I move that a telegram may be sent to him, expressing our affectionate regret at his enforced absence.

This was unanimously voted.

The Report of the Committee on State Boards of Charities was made by the chairman, Mr. F. H. Wines (page 28).

A paper on Boards of Control was read by Mr. Clarence Snyder, Wisconsin (page 37).

DISCUSSION ON STATE BOARDS.

Mr. WINES. Several questions are open for discussion. One is whether the consolidated board of trustees having charge of all the State institutions in a State can do anything for any one of those institutions which a separate local board could not do.

Another question is whether the local boards do not feel a more keen and lively personal interest in the single institutions for which they are responsible than general boards can be likely to do in the entire institutions of a particular State.

There is also a question as to the effect of the payment of salaries to the members of those boards, in influencing politicians to seek for positions on such boards as reward for past political service. I do not think to be a politician is a reproach to any man. A man who