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Show LEADERS CALLED TO WHITE HOUSE Senator Gallinger and Representative Repre-sentative Mann Confer With PPresident on National Defense. NON - PARTISAN PLAN Republican Leaders of Senate and House Military and Naval Committees to Meet Before Congress Opens. Washington, Nov. 20. President Wilson today asked Senator Gallinger and Representative Mann, Republican leaders of the senate aud house, respectively, re-spectively, to confer with him before the opening of congress on legislation for national defense. The time of the conference will be arranged to suit the two leaders. The president sent the invitations in accordance .with his announced plan of making the fight for military preparedness along non-partisan lines. Just before the opening of congress the president will confer with Republican Repub-lican leaders of the senate and house military and naval committees. nn faith, the big delegation or carpenters sat silent Tho carpenters' union .was accused of repairing, dismantling and setting up machinery in buildings in various cities, and with claiming the right to do such work, in defiance of the express ex-press commands of the federation convention in Philadelphia last year. Furuseth in his speech said: . "I prefer the charge that tho claim put forth by the carpenters is put up scientifically and purposely to bring about expulsion." Pressmen's President Offers Compromise. Compro-mise. George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's union, ofrered a substitute for tho adjustment committee's com-mittee's resolution. He moved that a committee of five- representatives of international unions, with President Presi-dent Gompers, be selected to attend the convention of tho carpenters and try to get them to rccedo from the stand they had taken. Berry's substitute sub-stitute was carried. Tho program today called for tho presentation of moro than fifty resolutions, reso-lutions, and for the election of officers. offi-cers. It was not anticipated that any candidate would be named In opposition op-position to President Gompers for reelection., re-election., oo MAINE WINS ANNUAL RUN. Boston, Nov. 20. The University of Maine today won the eighth intercollegiate intercol-legiate cross-country run held over a six-mile course in Franklin Park. J. Woverton of Yale, was the first runner run-ner to finish. His time was 32 minutes min-utes 21 1-5 seconds. |
