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Show EXTRA SESSION OF ' CONGRESS LIKELY Presidenl-Elect Wilson Said lo Have Made Up His Mind After Taking- CounseL By International News Service. PRINCETON, N. J.. Nov. 13. All indications point to the calling of a special scssiou of congress' as soon as President-elect Wilson is sworn into office. It can bo said Ui.it the president-elect has now arrived at a conclusion conclu-sion after canvassing as many members of congress as possible and as many of the Democratic Icadors of the country coun-try as havo expressed themselves publicly. pub-licly. That he will announce his plans within a short time, is thn general opinion opin-ion of ihoao who have been watching lu'3 course. Up to Lho present, however, the governor gov-ernor has not publicly committed himself, him-self, oithor for or against the plan. The assumption that ho favors an extra session is based upon tho hints he has dropped from time to time, notably the statement ho mado ycslerda' to' the delegation which invite. 1 him to speak at Charlotte, N. C, on May 20, when ho tfnve as a reason for puUincr off his reply the fact that an extra session, if called, would cover that date and keep him in Washington. While avoiding discussion of an extra ex-tra session, the governor tonight took occasion lo declare with emphasis thai, he proposed to carry out the pledges mado "in his campaign speeches with regard to the tariff aud monopolies. Tho governor was speaking of his mail whon ho mado this statement.: "I am going through the pile of mail as rapidly as possible, '-' lie said. "T am nbo'ut half wav through now and I find that thcro havo boon very few suggestions about an extra session or about tho cabinet. Tho letters so far havo been almost entirely of a congratulatory con-gratulatory character. Nobody ucems to think it iicecss.-uy to think about questions of tariffs or monopolies. |