Show TARIFF SHOULD BE PARED DOWN DOlN t Conclusion Arrived ident Roosevelt j I EXTRA SESSION PROBABLE 4 RAILROADS HAVE A FIGHT UPON THEIR 4 t 1 I A I Jan J nt W V V Roosevelt faYo s the earl earlIest possible action to a re revision vision by congress o of the tariff In Inso so informed the senators and nd n who were in him at the White Hou House last Satur day and he has male plain hIs to others since that conference e I call the congress into Ii i extraordinary session as soon as the te 1 com committees have hae Indicated that t they ey are prepared to submit the tariff I measure for passage I Revision Is Necessary One of those present at the confer enoe enee on Saturday said sald today in fn of the many conflicting stories publish regarding the meeting that the pr st si dent informed them that he be di rot riot believe in any sweeping re or of the tariff and would abide ly b by the judgment of the two to housep house of Congress in a matter that related so particularly to them yet he did think the time had bad come caine when the sChedules should be thoroughly eC exam m i Ined hied and there should be a sti ment as to certain of them The president dent added that his own views was as that the special session should t te Ji I place at the earliest date at wl i ithe the committees of the two houses could come to an agreement as to a bill blU Ready at Any Time If the they took this VIew he said he be would hold himself ready to call cRill the extraordinary session nt at what whatever thie the members of the two especially especial the house committee on It ways and means should inform 11 iri the they would be ready with wit their re rt If congress should act on the i question In accordance with the pr prest i dents desire it was vas made perfectly plain today that the extraordinary es sion would be called caltea to assemble the coming oming spring It has been pointed out however by the tariff of the house and of tile the enate that it will requIre many weeks to prepare a mena ure for submIssIon t to the house Con Congress Not g The president realizes that thaI this is a practical objection to early sp ng session of congress as fIle m m beri qt the commIttees have hae not the time now O rY to devote to the ion of a tarIff bill So far as the president is concerned be would be to have congress in session during r summer months He has haa his entire readiness to remain in Wasa ington next r it If congress nJ undertake at that time tim the rl lion tion of a tariff meaSUre measure but 1 r s thus far has bas shown no io l Continued on P Page e 2 TARIFF SHOULD BE PARED DOWN Continued from Page 1 accede to the proposition ot of a hot wea weather the ther session Pall Fall Session Likely While no decision of a definite char aeter has been reached as to the time ot of the session It Is rca rea reasonable to belIeve that IC one should be called to meet next autumn It proD probably ably wilL wUl be in October It was v that there is in not the thc least of differences so radical arisIng between the president and the Republican leaders in con congress ress over th the thrift tarIff question as to cam cause e a split In iii the party While the president is deeply In earnest in his desire for tariff revision he regards the question as one ot of expediency inasmuch as no prin princIple principle cIple Is at stake Freight Rate Question On another question however that ot of legislation relating to Interstate freight rates ot of raIlroads his mind Is quIte made up He Be will lIght fight for that legIs laUon and fight hard He hopes to secure from congress some definite aC aCtion action tion regarding that legIslation at the present session but It if he does not he will bring the subject agaIn before congress at the proposed extraordinary session and will ur urge e with all his po power r the crystallization Into law of the rec recommendations he h has already made to congress on that question The freight rate question he does not regard as one of at expediency He holds that it Is Isa isa a subject In which a great reat moral prin principle prinCiple ciple Is involved and one very near to 10 aU all the people of the country He re regards regards gards it ft In fact as the paramount is issue Issue sue ut at this time 1 More Nore Warships Some concern was given at the cop ference to the subject of appropriations ns to be authorized at the present session fl Ct congress The president cordially i approved of th the disposition of congress i ito to hold bold the appropriations down to the lowest possIble but he urged verY strongly that the naval appropriatIons should not be materially disturbed saying that the best beat guarantee of peace fOr this country lIes In a stron strong and homogeneous navy and uld that the nava as mapped out should be berried carried Into effect without the drop pin pIns 9 of a intI vessel The pr i Thal ined congress au authorize the not merely of one one or two cru cruisers lers but or of fighting ships battleships und and he expressed sed the h hope pe that an agreement wIth him In Inthis this re regard ard might b reached by con I jr I |