The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-12
FORECAST OF
 COMING WEEK British Commons to Meet Tomorrow. MARRIAGE AT WHITE HOUSE Wedding of Nicholas Longworth and Miss Alice Roosevelt. statehood Bln win Hold the Attention of the senate for the Time
 The New President of
 France.

The ceremonies attendant upon the assembling of the new British Psrlia- ment will be somewhat clouded by the fact that the court is in mourning for King Christian, of Denmark, whose burial is to take place on Sunday February lS Tomorrow the House of Commons will assemble for tue elec- ton of a speaker and the remainder Of the week will be given up to ad- ministering the oath of office and other preIiminaries. King Edward will for maiIy open parliament on Tuesday or next week.
 An almost unprecedented gathering of the crowned heads of Europe will be present at the burial of King Chris. tian. The deep feeling of sorrow at his death has found expression in avery language and all the nations will send representatives to pay their las; respects. Among the more than 805 distinguished persons who will be pre- sent at the burial are Queen Alexandra of England; King George of Greece: Emperor William of Germany; King Haakon Of Norway; Arch Duke Franz Frederick of Austria and the Duchess of Brunswick. The King will be buried in the chapel of Frederick V. of the Cathedral of Roskiide. formerly the
 
 Queen Louisa Hes.
 !, New President of France.
 Clement Armand FalIieres, eighth president of the Third Republic. will take over the relns of government be- coming the ruling executive in France on Febraury IS.
 On that day the Elysee Palace will be the scene of great pomp and festi vity. M Loubet will leave the palace on Febraury IT and at f o'clock on the following day the precise hour on which his seven year term win expire he will await the coming of NJ. Fallieres who will arrive attended by full mill tary escort.
 Premier Rouvier will present the out going and incoming presidents when there will be an exchange of complt- mentary addresses. A promenade through the various apartments of the official palace win. be followed by a reception 10 fife diplomatic corps and high state ofiicials-
 The dedication of the battle monu- mont at Fl Clancy, Cuba, will take place on February 14. A party of distin- guished of1ceers of the United States Army and Navy left New York on Feb ruary s to participate in the exercises attending the dedication. The Cuban Government will play an active part in the ceremonies.
 Wedding nt White House.
 The wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of the President, to Rep resentative Nicholas Longworth, will take place at the White House on Sat urday, February IT. The ceremony, which will be performed Tn the historic East Room, will be solemnized by the Right Rev. Henry V. Satterlee, Prot estant Episcopal Bishop of Washing ton. There will be no bridesmaids. The L. E.. son Perkins of Boston. a classmate and longtime friend. Three of Mir. Long, worth's classmates and a collegemate at Harvard, B. A. Wallingford, IT,, of Cincinnati, who married Mir. Long worth's oldest sister; Larz Anderson of Washington, Viscount Charles De- Chambrun, brother of Count Adelbert youngest sister and Theodore Roose- welt, Jr, the oldest son of the Presi- dent. will be the ushers
 One thousand invitations to the we'd ding have been issued Those invited exclusive of the wedding party in- clude:
 The members of the cabinet and their wives. former members of the cabinet who are now in the United States senate and their wives, the heads of the foreign embassies and Missions and their wives, the justice of the United States supreme court and their wives. the official members of the party which accompanied Secretary Taft to the Orient, the Ohio delegation in congress and the New York delega- ton in congress.
 Late in the afternoon Mir. Longworth and his wife will leave Washington on a trip to Florida, travelling in spe- cial car. After the adjournment of congress they expect to make a trip to Europe.
 Coal Operators to Meet.
 A meeting of the operators to dis cuss the threatened coal strike will be held In New York on February 14. and on February l6, there will be a joint conference Of the miners and operators. Both the operators and miners are re- ported as firmly adhearing to their respective position.
 Under the agreement reached last Monday the senate will at s o'clock on next Wednesday vote on the shipping bill and under the same agreement the entire day of Tuesday and Wednesday with the ex- ception of the time devoted to routine business, will be given up to the dis. cussion of the shipping bill.
 The joint statehood bill will he made the unfinished business of the senate on Thursday following immediately on the disposal of the shipping bill and will continue to hold that place until voted upon or displaced. Opinions differ as 10 the time that will be re- quired for the consideration of the measure. Confessedly the senate Is quite evenly divided on the Foraker admentment giving Arizona an op- for a seperate vote on the question of admission and lt Is not probable that test of strength will be consented to until there is more de- finite Information as to the attitude ] Of certain senators than can now be obtained.
 No decision has yet been reached as to what will follow the Statehood bill l as unfinished business The decision | will lie between the railroad rate bill l and the Philippine tariff bill. The day 1 for a vote on the railroad bill in com mittee has been fixed for next Friday l and the bill will be reported soon af- | terwards in the shape agreed upon.
 TiIIman VIII Open Week.
 The weeks proceedings will be open | ed tomorrow by an effort on the part 1 of Mir Tillman to secure an tnvestiRa- '