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Show SUCCESSOR TO HANNA. National Civic Federation to Name President at Next Meeting. NEW YORK. Nov. lO.-Tho fourth annual an-nual meeting of the executive committee commit-tee of the National Civic federation, at which a president to succeed the late President Hanna will bo elected, will be held In New York city on December 15. Tho call for the meeting was Issued today to-day and -was accompanied by a statement state-ment In part as follows: "The executive committee will hold two business sessions In tho morning and afternoon, and in the evening will entertain en-tertain at Its dinner the prominent men of all departments of the organization. Among the speakers will be Andrew Carnegie. Car-negie. Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter. Pot-ter. August BcJmont. Cornelius N. Ellss. Oscar S. Strauss, John Mitchell, Samuel Gompers and E. E. Clark. "Tho business of the executive committee commit-tee will Include the election of a president presi-dent to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hanna. His selection of his successor was Intrusted to a subcommittee sub-committee of twelve, representing em- pioycra. wage-earners nnu me goncrai public. Their report will probably be approved ap-proved by tho executive committee, as there has been much discussion as to Senator Hanna"s successor. A new department on Industrial economics econ-omics will hold Us first meeting for organization or-ganization prior to the annual dinner. The membership of this department Is composed of 100 editors of the dally press, of politico-social magazines, of trado papers and labor Journals and of legal authors, and the heads of departments of political economies. Reports -will bo road by the chairman of the executive council and other officials offi-cials An International committee will bo named to form an Intermtlonal civic federation. This plan originated at a luncheon tendered by the International Civic federation In this city last September Septem-ber to members of the Interparliamentary union. A discussion at that gathering developed de-veloped the parallelism between International Interna-tional peace and industrial peace, the methods of securing each being strikingly striking-ly similar. The suggestion of forming an International civic federation has elicited encouraging responses from England, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany. |