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Show MEMBERS CALL ON PRESIDENT Another Conference a) White House, Subject of Railway Freight Rates Again Taken Up. Proposed Reduction of Navnl Expenditures Expen-ditures Second Topic of Discussion. WASHINGTON, Jsn. 9 President Roosevelt bad another conference today rogardlnK pending pend-ing legislation. He consulted Repreuontnt .-s Esch ot Wisconsin nnd Townsend of Michigan, both mombers of tho House Commit teo on Interstate In-terstate and FirHfpn Commerce, reirnrdlng proposed pro-posed legislation respecting railro:ul freight rates. Both Representatives arc In favor of affirmative aotlon on the subject by Congress at the present session. They told tho fi evident evi-dent that people th,.y repren- nt'd w'unt. d boinvlhlng clellnllo done ond wnhted It dOttS scon. gunested redncUons in the Mpendltur "n tho Navy doparlinonl formed the principal topic of a talk between the President ami Re- resentatlve Dayton of West virginiu, Um mnii- Ing RepublleaS member of th Naval Af-fnlrn Af-fnlrn conirnlttce of the House. Mr Doyton la opposing vigorously the proposed reduction, maintaining that uny reduction would erlpp'.o tho naval eervloe. |