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Portrait of an Association >j4t/.' .-;j;»t4>«i.ji li.B.J.*|t.i.^..py77 ^ CHAPTER II Portrait of an Association e Legislators j^re Providing Services for Themselves, '•• . ' Through Their Orgam!^aiio7i / HISTORY V editors and others had accepted membership HE first announcement of the project on the Association's Advisory Boards. En- for the establishmenf of an association • dorsements of the Association had been Tof the state legislators and an invita­ '.rnade by: - :'. ' tion to the organization meeting was issued Denver Bar Association May 3,1926 from the office of. a Colorado Senator on Law Club of Denver ^., May .5,1926 December 20, 1925. Anfiouncements and Colorado Bar Association May 14; 1926 invitations were sent to each of the 7,500 American Bar Association July 14,1926, state legislators. • /, National Conference^'of Commissioners on In January, .1926, came the "Etnbryonic Uniform State Laws July 15,1926 Number" of "The American Legislator"- During its formative period, the Associa­ with announcements of thej'local council" tion also received the moral support'and the and "general assembly" set-^up, which fore­ encouragement of such distir^uished stu­ shadowed future developments of the dents of government as; . / organization. Nominating. and . election HERBERT HOOVER . ROSCOE POUND ballots wei;e mailed to every legislator in ELIHU ROOT ' JOHN H WIGMORE the United Sta.tes, for the election of -a The'first meeting of legislators from the . House Council and a Senate Council in seVeral states came in .1926, when on '. each sl^te.; Numbers of legislators paid., .July 19, "a considerable assemblage" of dues or-'made sustaining contributions to legislators from all parts of the country met the Association, but mdst of the financing J in the Sena'te Chamber in/Denver, adopted was. underwritten , by the legislator men­ constitution and.by-laws, and elected the"• tioned in the preceding paragraph. EaTly following officers: ' .) \- in the Association's history individual diie^ Pr^^/rfe«/, SENATOR HENRY W. TOLL, were abandoned iij favor of state appropria­ Colorado. tions to the Association. It was felt tliat ^ First. Vice-President, SENATOR -GEGRGE the states benefited directly-from the serv­ * WOODWARD, Pennsylvania. ices of the organization and,, that it was Second K/ce-Pre5?Wf«/;, SENATOR ALFRED unfair to collect personal dues from legisla-- L. THWING, Minnesota. • tors, many of whom receive only nominal Auditor, lloi<;' REECE-'A. CAUDLE, compensation. ; /Arkansas. By Ma/of 1926, a Senate Coui?cil of In "The Legislator" for February, 1929, ^ three members and a House Council of appeared the first mention of "a clearing­ ^ four members had been established in each house for the,Legislative Reference Bureaus of the forty-eight states. The little leaflet ; of the various states." A list of those Ljegis- called "The American Legislator" had be­ lative Reference Bureaus was published in come a small printed pamphlet and the title , that issue of the periodical, and the iheory changed to "The Legislator" in February, of "an informational switch-board through: 1926. "X • ' which any legislator .or the director of any Severity-six vdistinguishepi pitizehs-r- Legislative Reference Bureau can 'pliig in-- by letter'or telegram, and be cQnnected with govemment officials, educators, engineers. "4 •: •'••:•.- '•;..,,•. ••.•••;.• -.:''. it- %<>. PORTRAIT OF AN ASSOCIATION 5 the best souites of information in the United from the researches of other legislators and States," was well developed. • from organizations which have studied Themagazinewassentto the>\hole 7JS0Q legislative problems. It is h6p_eid thus to legislators free of charge in an effort to* improve the quality of the law making . disseminate this valuable information where process in the various.states. • it was most needed. - ' The Association is concerned with the Thoughtful students, of the legislative work of the forty-eight state legislatures processes have long recognized the value of and their 7,500 t^islators. It is not con- Legislative Reference Bureaus in aiding thel' cerned with questions of federal legislation, wprk'^'of state law makers, but the. majorV^except as they are affected'by problems of difficulty with the Legislative Reference state legislation. Accordingly, throughout Bureaus'set-up was the fact thaty<no matter this handbook, unless it otherwise appears, how well trained, ooie hundred and fifty references to legislators, legislatures, and Legislative Bureau employees could not legislation refer to state legislators, legisla- adequately serve 7,500 legislators without tures and legislation. , some form of central organization. The American Legislators' Association pro­ , FINANCES. ceeded to furnish that central organization . ^ The •America • ,- n Legislators•.•••'•' Associatio' n through its Interstate Reference Bureau. was" first. underwritten by. one legislator. 4„iQ>. The vast store of ^research material in the During the initial years several other state* hands of individual reference bureaus can, legislatqrs^v?,tthe value of^ the Association through central exchange, be made avail­ and made private donations ranging from able to other states.. Thus repetition of $100 to $1,000.^-The Association has never costly research is eliminated)^nd informed received any support from any individual legislation facilitated. In addition, the« who has not been a mernber of a r state Interstate Reference Bureau has established l&gislature. • /^ ' " " . contacts with a considerable number of In 1930 the Spelman Fund, which 4s as­ institutions and individuals engaged in sociated with the Rockefeller Foundation," governmental research'. " made an appropriation in support of the.• By 1929 the Assbciation's program in­ work of the Association. The Fund has since cluded, among other projects, the publica­ made additional appropriations, but they tion of the periodical; an annual meeting of- will expire on December 31,: 19!35. In 1931 "legislators; the formation of advisory com- an<^ 1932 the Julius Rbsenwald Fund.61 mittees; and a campaign to improve the Chicago afso m^de approjjriations. to^the prestige of tegislative personnel. • . * .Association: - .;' ' • : •' .' /•; SinCe moving to Chicago in 1930, the As previously stated, the syst^ of per­ Association has made earnest efforts td carry sonal dues paid by,active .rtiejnbers^bf'the out the various parts of this program. In organization was discontinued after the first' the different ch'Spt6rs"df this handbook ac­ year, and since that time the only additional counts of what h^s been done in each: direc­ source of ir^come, except subscriptions to tion can'be found. ' ,< the Association's magazine, "State Govern­ ment," has been state alppropriationsf • . PURPOSE '" ' "^^ "'-..• ••('••, •,'• .The support of the foundations was given The American Legislators' Association' to permit a demonstration of possibilities—. represents an effort on the part, of legislators„. not as a permanent source of income. The to give a constructive turn to the wide trustees of the Spelman Fund believed that spread criticism of legislatures which' has an organization of state legislators should been prevalent in this country for genera­ be established. They ajapjoved' the pur­ tions. • posed and projects of the American Legisla­ Und^ying the entire plan is the thought tors' Association, t)ut promised aid only for that there should be a central ^organization a time on the theory that if the work w^s to make effective all proposals calculated worth doing the states themselves should to improve the organization of our legisla support it. The experiment has been a tures. The organization'should also bring ««^ceess and^ix,of the state legislatures have to each legislator the opportunity to profit made appropriations-for the continued sup- <Nj THE BOOK OF THE STAJES iy." -> • •^'. • '^ The administrative offices of the American Legislators' Association occupy much of the main floor including all of the offices in the foreground. Here the Association conducts the Interstate Reference Bureau, a quasi-gov^ernmental agency, the national clearing house ofjegislative injormntion.' Most of this building is occuf^ed b.y the^ sjecretariats of im^ zJJjportant associations gj governmental officials. port of the Association. It is, however, A fuller discussion of this matter will' be necessary that other states should support found in Chapter XII. the work which has begun so auspiciously. <* I , ' r\\ The expenditure of one thousand_t6 five LOCATION, AND FACILITIES _ .:_ thousand dollars a year is a srpall price to_ .It is impwtant that the. main offices of ]/• pay^for the' many services which the Ameri­ the Association and of the Interstate Refer­ can Legislators' Association renders. If ence Bureau be located 'in- a central geo­ the legislatures appropriate an average graphical position. Denver was the scene amount' equivalent to, the salary of two of activities from the formation of the V stenographers, this work can be well •Association in December, 1925,.until the financed, and rendered much more effective. Chicago "office was"opened on October 17, p J- \ *» PORTRAIT OF -AN ASSOCIATION Views in two of the offices of the American Legislators^ Association in the ivy-covered building adjoining'thf University of C hicago at Drexel A venue and Fifty-eighth Street. A ita§ of fifteen has been here devoting itself to the,assistance of legislators of all states. -=^ y ^. ^A^ 8 ••r "^UE BOOK OF. THE STATES M 193 0. - Chicago has proved a pivotal point tors. A list of the past and
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