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Show EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS. Unless Legislation Should Be Enected Regulating Freight Rates. President Roosevelt continued on Wednesday his conference with members mem-bers of congress on tho subject of rl.ff revision an.d r legislation providing pro-viding for-'an Incr'easo of tho pbwerV of tho Interstate , commerce commission. commis-sion. Ono statement, which stands out almost with tho pre-eminence of an official announcement, is that unless un-less congress at tho present session Bhould enact legislation looking to a regulation of railroad freight rates, an extraordinary session of tho Fifty-ninth Fifty-ninth congress will be called by tho president to deal with that problem. It can bo said, that tho president regards re-gards tho interstato commerco question ques-tion as tho paramount Issue now boforo bo-foro tho American people. |