The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
HARMONY RULES IN DEMOCRATIC RANKS
 ON EVE OF SIXTY
 FOURTH CONGRESS
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affairs have taken in the Senate toward merchant marine bill Now that a meas ure has been proposed which would build up government merchcant marine as an auxiliary to the navy, several democratic senators, among them Senator Clarke of Arkansas, who fought the ship purchase bill to death at the last session, have said they would favor such measure.
 HOUSE RULES
 A furry over the House rules, with some of the independent republicans advocating liberalization of the prevailing code, may develop tomorrow A number of the mem bers who favor amendments to the rules met last night and agreed that they should assent to the adoption of the old rules, to be proposed by the rules com mittee, on the stipulation that their agree ment should be in force only until Jan- uary IT, when special committee among those members will be prepared to frame and submit new set of rules providing for more publicity of committee proceed ings and modification of committee pow CTS.
 The six progressives of the House, Rep- resentatves Copley, Illinois: Stephens, Nolan and Elston of California; Martin. Louisiana, and Schall of Minnesota, agreed at conference today that they would not attempt a party organization for the present. at least. They decided that each would act according to his in dividual views and vote as he personally prefers without reference to party Rep resentatives Stephens and Copley and probably one or two of the others will support the republican candidate for speaker tomorrow and will vote with the republicans generally during the session
 WILSON'S BUSY WEEK
 A busy week is ahead of President Will son. In addition to business incident to the converting of Congress, he has sev- eral other engagements. He will deliver lour addresses, one to joint session of the Senate and House Tuesday, another at the annual meeting of the Red Cross Wednesday and two in Columbus, O., Friday.
 Representative Hay, chairman of the House military committee. will have an important conference with the President tomorrow on the army bill, which MT. |, Hay will introduce in the House soon after the session begins, It will be the first time he has seen the President since the preparation of the measure was begun.
 Two large deleGa tions-one composed of suffragists and one of democrats from Dallas, Tex, here to seek the next dem- ocfatlc national convention for that city will be received tomorrow by the Presi- dent. His callers also will include Baron Shibusawa, prominent Japanese, whc will be introduced by Viscount Chinda, the Japanese ambassador and committees from the Senate and House, who will
 notify him formally that Congress is in session.
 | The President will go to the capito shortly after noon Tuesday, and wait in his office there until a committee from the two houses escorts him into the House chamber, where he will read what he con siders the most important address he has delivered to Congress.
 As President of the Red Cross, MT. Wilson will preside at one of the session of the annual meeting of the organiza- l tion here Wednesday. He will hear re- ports of the Red Cross work on Euro 1 pean battlefields Former President Taft whom MT. Wilson recently appointed | chairman of the central committee oi the Red Cross, will preside at anathel session. The President will leave Thurs 1 day night for Columbus where he will l speak at a lunch of the Chamber of Com.
 merce, attend a reception given in his honor in the state capitol building by | the Franklin County Democratic club
 and deliver an address at the evening I meeting of the Federal Council ol
 Churches of Christ. He will leave imme diately after the last speech to reacf l Washington Saturday morning.