The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-20
PRESIDENT WILSON EXPECTS TO CONFER DAILY WITH MEM
 HERs OF CONGRESS.
ID EXPEDITE LEGISLATION
Finance Committee of Senate and Ways and Means Committee of House to Work in Unison on
 Tariff Question.

Washington. March l99-President Wilson will confer frequently with members of the house and senate in the presidents room at the capital during the extra session of congress. This was announced at the White House late today.
 The president intends to make him. self as accessible as possible to mem bers of congress on those days when tariff legislation will have reached its most important development. He found while governor of New Jersey that legislation often was expedited by his close communication with the New Jersey legislature. He made it a practice to be in his own office whenever the legislature was in ses- sion day or night, and gave preced- ence in his engagements to the legis- latars
 The president will go to the capital, 1t was said at the white house, in spirit of friendly cooperation there to consult with democrats and republi- cans alike on the progress Of legisla- tion He believes, however, that he should go to the capital as party lead CT and he had always said that the president of the United States is the elected leader of his party and that lhe particularly was charged by the people With fhe carrying out of party platforms. MT. Wilson believes the tariff bill should be treated as a party measure.
 The announcement today that the finance committee of the senate, and the ways and means committee of the house. will work on the tariff bill in joint conference. consulting the presi- dent often, is in line with his idea
 tAat the leaders in congress should draft a bill which should stand or fall on It's merits. both in congress and be- fore the country. He believes in en- forcing party discipline and after the leaders have approved the tarim Dill he will make every effort to have 1t
 passed in both houses without ma terial alteration.
 The president was busy today. He met a number of members of congress on questions of appointments receiy- ed many visitors in the east room in the afternoon and took an automo- bile ride Senator Smith of Mary land called to urge the appointment Of w. c, Deyeemon, for the vacant judge ship in the fourth United States dis
 trict court, but did not discuss the senatorial contest in Maryland. Though urged to do so by Maryland leaders the president has not stated definitely whether he is for or against the reelection of Senator Smith, democrat.
 It became known that William J.. Harris chairman of the democratic state committee of Georgia. very likely would be chosen director Of | the caucus. It also was stated au- thoritatively at the White House that | the nomination of Chas. P. Neil to be commissioner of labor statistics, | which failed of confirmation at the special session of the senate, would l he sent to the senate again when con gress convenes on April [.
 | Mir. Wilson was formally congratu- lated on his election by committee 1 of the American Philosophical society of which he is the eighth member, to become chief executive of the nation. The committee consisted of w. w, | Keen, Philadelphia, president; Charle-
 magn w. Tower, Philadelphia; Sena- !, tor Elihu Root, pr. Robert 5. Ward, uresident of the Carnegie institution l Dr, Chas. Calcott, head of the Smith sonian. institute; Dr. Henry $. Os- born, head of the association of musi cal science, New York, and Dr. Q. Il | Tittman, chief of the coast and geode' tic survey.
 The president also received Q com mittee from the national conservation congress, consisting of President Chas. Iathrop Pack, of Lakewood, N h.: J. B. White, of Kansas City; E s. Worsham, of Atlanta. Ga; Walter | H. Page. of New York, and Thomas R
 Shipp, of Indianapolis. They told the
 president they wanted to dispel any
 impression that the organization waf
 affiliated with the national progres slve party or any other political party They declared their wish was for the ] uge and the development of the coun tries natural resources and that they approved his principle that "preserva- ton Is not conservation. The com mitteo said that while 1t had not fix . cd time or place, Washington migh he selected for it's meeting late this year. The president said ha woule