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Show CITY MANAGER PLAN MOUSED Commission Government Now Rules Over 7,000,000 People Peo-ple in 600 Cities. Toronto. OnL Nov 13 The "city manager plan" of municipal government govern-ment was endorsed at the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Municipal Mu-nicipal league today by the special committee appointed two and a half years ago at the Richmond meeting to study commission government and Its developments. Commission government at pres-ent pres-ent rules more than 7 000,000 persons per-sons in Son chips and towns The supporters of the plan are divided as to whether commissioners should be elected for specific posts, as in Lynn, Mass., or on a general ticket with power to divide the departments unions; themsehps after election, as 'n Galveston and Des Moines The majority of tho committee however, reported ihat neither solution was as solid as that of electing a commls slon purely representative and lcKis-latlve lcKis-latlve in function, permitting the mnmbers to gie only part time to municipal work and receive nominal salaries or none, and leave th. chief executive work to a city manager hired by thp commission from any where In the country' and holding of flcp at 1 1 6 pleasure. This manager controls the remaining city employes under civil service provisions. |