PROCEEDINGS.

SECOND DAY-THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1893.

THE

HE congress was called to order by Vice-President ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF, in the Art Palace, Chicago, at 10 o'clock, A. M.

Divine blessing was invoked by Rev. JOHN L. MILLIGAN, of Pennsylvania.

A report was received from the Board of Directors of the National Prison Association, stating that it had adopted the following as the order of business for this congress ; subject, however, to such modifications as the congress may direct:

MONDAY, June 7, 1893. All meetings of the congress are to be held in the Art Palace, Chicago. The opening meeting shall be held at 8 o'clock, P. M., this day; and it shall be a Memorial Tribute to General HAYES, the late president of the association.

THURSDAY, June 8, 1893, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The report of the Standing Committee on Prison Discipline, by Capt. J. W. Pope, chairman, will be received and read; to be followed by discussion of that report.

FRIDAY, June 9, 1893, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The report of the Standing Committee on Preventive and Reformatory Work, by Chairman Walter B. Lindley, of California; or in lieu of said report, or in addition thereto, an address on the Lease System in Tennessee and other Southern States, by Dr. P. D. Sims, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be delivered.

SATURDAY, June 10, 1893. An invitation having been received from the Board of Commissioners of the Northern State Penitentiary of Illinois to the congress to visit the penitentiary at Joliet, and which invitation has been accepted by the board, the members of the congress will visit that institution, leaving this city on a special train, on the Chicago and Alton Railway, at 9 o'clock, a. M.

On motion, the report was adopted; and the thanks of the congress were also extended to the Board of Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary for their kind invitation, and the invitation was accepted.

The Board of Directors further reported, that they had considered the subject of the election of officers of the association for the year 1893-4, and the selection of place in which to hold their next annual congress. They voted to recommend St. Paul, Minnesota, as the place, and submit for your action the following as nominees for the several offices for the coming year:

On motion of Mr. RAY, it was resolved, that the next annual congress be held at St. Paul, Minnesota, and continuing five days, commencing on the Saturday next after the tenth day of June.

On motion, the recommendations of the Board of Directors as to the election of officers was approved, and the gentlemen recommended were unanimously elected as officers of the National Prison Association, for the year 1893-4.

The CHAIRMAN: We will now proceed with the regular order, and have a report read, by Captain J. W. Pope, of the United States army, who for some years past has been superintendent of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.