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Show -5- of governors and other State officials, partly initiated by and partly in collaboration with Federal authorities, have more or less stimulated common State action and have served as a fruitful interchange of views on State po- licies essential to an understanding of common interests.19 Again, the States have been enabled to control more effectively matters predominately Sup. Ct. 175, 176, per Holmes, J. g "There are special reasons for keeping in harmony with the marine insurance laws of England, the great field of this business. . ." ; Commercial Bank v, Canal Bank (1916) 239 U. S. 520, 36 Sup. Ct. 19l+. 19Thus, President Roosevelt initiated the Conference of Governors in 1908; Proceedings of Conference of Governors (1908) v et seq.; Roosevelt* Autobiography (1913) hl\3 et seq. The growing scope of this cooperative meth- od is revealed through the reports of the great variety of associations of state officials, catalogued" in the Monthly List of State Publications pub- lished by the Library of Congress since 1910. These associations, collect- ively, cover the whole scope of modern government. A partial list of them follows? Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, American Institute of Park Executives/ American Association, of Port Authorities, American Association of State Highway Officials, American Prison Association, American Uniform Boiler Law Society^ Assembly of Civil Service Commissions, Association of American Dairy, Food ani Drug Officials, Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, Conference of Art Commissions, Conference of Governors of the States of the Union, Conference of New England Governors, Conference of State and Territorial Health Officers, Conference of State Sanitary Engineers* Conference on Weights and Measures in the United States* Federation of State Medical Boards, International Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, International Association of Factory inspectors, International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners, International Association of Factory Inspectors, International Association of Industrial Occident Boards and Commissioners, International Association of Public Employment Services, Joint New England Railroad Committee, Nation- al Association of Attorneys General, National Association of Boards of Medical Examira rs. National Association of Commissioners, Secretaries and Departments of Agriculture, National Association of Comptrollers and Ac- counting Officers, National Association of Dental Examiners, National-Asso- ciation of State Universities, National Association of Railway and Util- ities Commissioners, National Association of State Libraries^ National As- sociation of Supervisors of State Banks, National Convention of Insurance Commissions, National Probation Association, National Tax Association, New England State Tax Officials Association, Pacific Coast Association o£ Por"b Authorities. * • • • In Canada there has been a growing tendency to secure cooperation be- tween the Dominion and the Provinces *by means of similar conferences. In- terprovincial conferences were held in the years I887, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1913* and 1919* Among other- matters the Conference of 1887 passed resolutions calling for unanimity in Provincial legislation for the enforcement of de"bts^ for the protection of officials acting under the authority of laws that may afterwards be held«tb have been beyond the legislative jurisdiction'of Par- liament, for the recognition- by all the Provinces of probates and letters of administration granted in any one of them. - See Minutes of the Proceedings |
