Show ROOSEVELT IS IN DEAD EARN EARNEST EST Congress Must Deal With Freight Rate Question 4 NOW IS THE PROPER TIME WL WILL MA MEAN A AN EX I TRAS TEA SESSION 3 I ii I ASHINGTON ASHI Jan W vv Roose Roosevelt elt continued toda today his cn con conI 1 ference with members or congress I I on the subject of oC tariff revision ann ano or 01 I legislation on providing for an increase ol of the powers of the Interstate comm commerce I 11 I commission One stat statement ment which I sta stands ds ot almost with th the of irn hn official announcement is U un 1 IC ices congress dt t the he present I should legislation loOking to Lo a reg reg or of freight rates a an ex er session r f the C congress wi will be cled called b oy the president t deal dal with Ith that problem I It can be sad said that the president reC re re gards the interstate commerce question as C the paramount issue noW now before tin the t American Bate te Queston Paramount At th the conference last he be In formed tomed those whom he had a 1 Into consultation that in hL his judgment the question of railroad freight rates W wa far more important tha than that that or of tin tho tariff ad and that while he desired a re rc readjustment adjustment or of t the existing existing customs duo du duties tes ties he would not perit permit a any radical dir ference In the Republican party on tha question He said definitely that he woula cal call an exta extra session ot of congress to con consider sider Interstate commerce legislation un unless Unless less definite action were taken b by con gross on the subject at the ses sen sension sion glon At that session he hoped hoped tariff ye re reIson vision Ison to the tho extent ho he ba had Indicted yeI I ml might ht be accomplished but ne he made it I t perfectly clear that In his mind the over oer shadowing freight rates isue was that or of raIlroad overa a Me Made a Stong Strong Tok Talk Tn In a talk today wih with Speaker Speak r Cannon who is recognized a as being opposed at a t this time to an any revision relston or of the tho the president reiterated his made ft at Saturdays thai while he d desired sired acton action on te the queston that I 1 Ie was willing to abide by te the 1 ot of the Republican leaders In congress a he regarded the ta tariff nutter conga I as ono on which the tho chosen ot of tho th a American people shoud should determine He 0 Indicated In so man many that a fifty years heno practically tt 5 would bo be able to say whether the sa t dutes duties on an any given article at at t this tim Were S 50 per cent nt ad nd and I would care atin anything about what to tho oby du t the interstate commee commerce ques que I ton tion involved a principle deg dear to over ad and Amen can can precisely as the wole whole matte matter ot c d dealing with corporations a a L ciple and he would fight for that pr 1 pie wih with al all the power that In him les lies Queston Question of The president corroborated l state state ment attributed to him that the tat question was one merely ot of would ouid be solved without n a bet beten een bi him and the cong congress An Any so se m hOJ Is to he hax 0 fIA 1 I a the congress on o ol 1 l l on Page 2 ROOSEVELT IS IN DEAD EARNEST EARNESTI I Continued from Paire 1 1 I the tariff revision matter are quae Jm flu possible Speaker Cannon ben he left leit leitI I thE House to discuss s serIously the tariff revision qUe qUestion tion Pressed for tor a aI I statement conc concerning the prospect of an extra Speaker Cannon replied d that Theodore Roosevelt wits t the e only man in the states ahO hO could call callan callan an extra session and that he would an anI flounce in due time his decision I I I What Wha t Murdock L Learned arned I Representative Mu dock vr r with tIle pr president today y about U Interstate t commerce m When he left ir the White Jh house s ht he said d dt dc he had no doubt t that an extraordinary tg n session of the next c congress called to consider o I railroad legIslation unless of tl a practical nature should be at the present session |