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Show ADVICE OF PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Message to Extra Session Will Deal With Reciprocity. Tho prcsldont has practically completed com-pleted his message of presentation to the extra session of congress. It deals entirely with reciprocity and tho Cuban Cu-ban treaty. It is understood that tho president goes qtilto extensively into reciprocity as a genornl princlplo, and Its possibility to correct tho acknowledged acknowl-edged evils of tho prcsont tariff. As to tho ratification of the Cuban treaty. Senator Burrows, who led tho fight against It two yonrs ago, whon It was dofcatcd, now asserts that ho bclioves there Is no great amount of opposition to tho Idea, and ho says that ho thinks tho treaty Is going to bo acted favorably upon. Tho senator, howovcr. Is of tho opinion that mora opposition could bo expected from tho planters of Louisiana and tbo bout sugar mon of tho east. Representative William Allen Al-len 'Smith, who led tho sugar forcos in tho last fight, howover, has assorted assort-ed that the beet sugar men do not Intend In-tend to put up any opposition, all of which would Indtcato that reciprocity I Is going to be much In evidence at tho extra session. |