The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-01

Although President Wilson stlll de-
 res strongly to see his whole legis- tive programme accepted and demo- satic leaders in the Senate have ideas their own about what should be pne, administration spokesmen natur-
 lIy conceded tonight that the bill
 ially passed would provide only for:
 An eight-hour day for trainmen
 in interstate commerce.. effective
 December 1 or January 1, with the
 present 1O-hour rate of pay md
 pro rata overtime; and
 small commission appointed by
 the President to investigate the working of the law nvom six to
 nine months and report to Con-
 gress.
 This, with the date December l, is n substance the Adamson bill. revised ..- Representative Adamson and Demo ratic Leader Kitchin after conferring with President Wilson, which A. B. sarretson, spokesman for the broth Irhoods stated formally late today would be considered Satisfactory ettIement" and prevent the walk lat.
 Later the Senate interstate commerce committee agreed to report out a sim lar bill, with the date January 1, and 8empt
 ESPECIAL RULE AGREED ON t,rhe House will meet at II o'clock bmorrow morning to take up the Ad- <l q ,oio 1pad- IS have agreed upon a special rule -oviding for vote by 4:30 o'clock in
 le afternoon. The Senate meets at 10
 clock to begin consideration of it's
 rpmittee's bill with the administra- bn leaders determined to keep the pdy in continuous session until it is hssed.
 EOnly long speeches fin the Senate can revent prompt action and the admin btration is confident that minority enators will not carry their opposi- jon so far as to make it impossible .o get the necessary Legislation through poth houses by midnight.
 President Wilson will be in his room at the capitol when the Senate meets and haslarranged to spend all of the Forenoon there aiding in putting the aegisIation through At 8 o'clock in the Afternoon he leaves for Shadow Lawn, snis summer home in New Jersey, where an Saturday he is to be notified for .ilally of his nomination for re-elec- sion. A special messenger will be started for Shadow Lawn with the eight hour bill as soon as it is passed End the President will sign it there. ' TRAINMEN SEE PRESIDENT While the Senate committee today was holding a nine-hour hearing at which representatives of the railroads, she employees and the shippers gave sheir views on the situation and the aroposed legislation, the President 4eld frequent conferences with mem aers of Congress and sent for brother sood leaders and earnestly urged them 10 rescind the strike order
 When the trainmen left, the White House authorized the statement that they lad given no assurances. It was indi- ated that the President still intended, ' 1t became necessary as last re- ort, to address public appeal to the acn of the brotherhoods, urging them on atriotic grounds to have the strike alled off.
 Although the programme for action in he House was clearly outlined without 3elay. 1t was not until late tonight that definite idea of what the Senate would iave before it tomorrow was optaipable. When it's hearings closed. the interstate commerce. committee went into what promised to be an all night session to sonsider the various legislative proposals before it. including the Presi- sent's whole programme with it's provisions for preventing strikes pending investigation and for the drafting of men Q operate trains in case of military necessity. All day the House leaders had Seen declaring that these provisions SNver could be enacted. and near mid- siaht it was learned that the committee
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