MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 24-- Gras atmosphere prevails tonight among the 15,000 people gathered at Martin Luther King's voting rights three miles from George Montgomery Statehouse.

The situation in the rest of Montgomery is tense, however.

Klansmen and members of the White Council have been making speeches against King and the march day, and a Justice Department kesman has reported at least two of people being attacked in area today.

Half the police force--110 officers-- on duty in the city and at the , where the crowd is being by a veritable parade of professional performers.

Also on duty are several hundred and National Guard troops. As editorial in the Montgomery Adviser today urged that citizens pay attention to the marchers tomorrow. businessmen have been neging a legal holiday be declared.

King will address the marchers at 15 p.m. tomorrow, just before the on the Canitol begins. Also on making will be James Farner, John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, Ralph Bunche, and others. "Reports from other centers of civil rights activity--Tuscaloosa, Marion, Birmingham, and Selma will also be presented.

Ranks Swell

Today's 16-mile trek went smoothly. Dr. King did not join the marchers until about noon. He had left yesterday to keep a speaking engagement.

New people began to swell the ranks of the marchers as soon as the procession reached the four-lane stretch of U.S. 30, a few hundred yards from the campsite, and delegations from near and far flowed in all day.

By the time the marchers crossed the city line, they were 1900 strong. Three miles later, 3500 walked into the boggy campsite.

One contingent from Washington was held up for six hours Wednesday because a train crew in Atlanta refused to work on the same train with cars of civil rights demonstrators.

Folksinger Pete Seeger also joined the march today. He said that he had been kept busy writing down songs indigenous to Selma to be published in Broadside magazine.

The State legislature yesterday passed a resolution condemning the "inebriation and immorality" of the clergymen on the march.

[According to the Associated Press, the city of Montgomery itself was filling up rapidly with hundreds from all over the nation who came for today's huge procession to the Alabama State Capitol. White ministers, college students and Northern housewives joined Negro clergymen and Southern Negro laborers for the event.

End of March

The four-day pilgrimage climaxes a drive to register Alabama Negroes which was launched from Selma nearly ten weeks ago by King. King has estimated that the march cost his organization about $50,000. Funds come from contributions. King's march into Montgomery came nearly ten years after he began his civil rights crusade with a bus boycott there.

Ralph Bunche, Undersecretary of the United Nations, said his legs were very sore from walking. But he told the gathering, "nothing I have been associated with in my entire life gives me more satisfaction than this movement."

Mayor Earl D. James appealed to Montgomery's 150,000 residents to uphold law and order "so our image will remain untarnished before the world."]