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Show EXTRA SESSION IS SURE UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS President RoDseyelt Determined on Cuban 'Reciprocity 'Recipro-city and Laws to Hurt Trusts. WASHINGTON, an, 1?. flf .there. Is not time toass anti-trust laws at this session there will be enough time between March 4th und the first of August to do if ' ' K. 1 .' - t - . . The words placed within Quotation marks were uttered by President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. He was speaking to George H. Roberts, the director of the mint, who la also the owner of a newspaper at Des Moines, la. - . "There will also be time for the ratification of the Cuban treaty during that period."- - . - J ' n i . The President hissed the words through his teeth, as he did at Pittsburg on July 4th, when he said that reciprocity would come as sure as fate. . "I will call Congress together as .soon as possible after tbe adjournment If the treaty Is not ratlfle'dani ihe Attorney-General Is not given the authority he deems necessary to deal with the" trusts. - - "I take It that the men who made trie last national platform of the Republican Republi-can party meant what they said rhen they declared for a curbing of the trusts and for the prosecution of the policy of reciprocal relations with those willing to make concessions to us In the matter of tariffs. It may not be so, but I regard it as my duty as the head, for tbe time being, of the Prty to see to It that the pledges of the party are redeemed. -' r '' ': ' " V ' "For that reason there will be an extra session if the anU-trust laws are not amended and the reciprocity treaty remains unacted upon." , |