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PROGRAMME FOR CONGRESS
PRESIDENT IN CONFERENCE WITH RE
PUBLICAN LEADERS.
ANXIOUS THAT GENERAL AND EFFECTIVE
PLAN OF LEGISLATION BE READY
FOR COMING SESSION
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Washington. Nov. 23.-President Roosevelt Is
endeavoring to bring about an agreement Of the
Republican leaders in Congress on a general
programme of legislation to be carried cut at
the coming session. This is the principal object
OF the conference which began Immediately
after the Presidents return from Mississippi
and which will be continued for the next few
days the leaders continue to arrive. The
President is anxious to have the opinion OF as
many as possible of the leaders In Congress
to the amount of work that can be expected at
the coming session. and also as to the advisa-
btltty Of calling an extra session Of the LVIJIth
Congress II 1t is found to be impossible to get
through with the most pressing work this
winter
The Presidents talks with Senators and Rep
resentatives cover all the important questions
that VIII come before Congress. including trusts.
the tariff. Cuban reciprocity and the isthmian
canal AS between tariff revision and trust
regulation the latter is regarded as most press
ing. and the President is anxious TO have legis-
lation enacted this winter. IL possible. There IS
no disposition TO go any further with tariff re-
vision this winter than to provide for the for
nation OF a plan of revision either by an inde-
pendent commission by authorizing the Sen
ate Committee Finance and the reelected
members Of the House Committee on Ways and
means 10 take the subject up IN the long recess
next summer. The latter plan Is recommended
by many Of the Republican leaders.
The President will be gratified If the Republi-
cans in Congress can be united on a conservative
but effective plan of trust legislation, so as to
assure it's enactment before March 4. There is
no foundation for reports which represent Presi-
dent Roosevelt as advocating antitrust legisla-
ton Of such a radical character that some OF
the members of his Cabinet are arrayed in op-
position to him and TO those of the Cabinet who
agree with him. There are, Of course. shades Of
difference Of opinion in the Cabinet TO the
details Of the plan which the President is out
lining in his message but there is nothing like
split. as has been represented The Presidents
plan, based on Attorney General KnOX's Pitts
burg speech, proposes so to amend the Sherman
law TO make IL more effective, and also to
make 1t reach certain cases which. under the
decisions Of the Supreme Court. cannot now be
covered by il. 1t is conservative, and will have
the support of all the members of the Cabinet
The Presidents consultations with the Repub-
Iican leaders began on Friday. when he
Senators Lodge, of Massachusetts; Burrows. OF
Michigan, and Scott, of West Virginia. Senator
SpOOner Of Wisconsin. one Of those specially
invited by the President. was at the White
House this evening. and had a long talk with
President Roosevelt. He is one OF the men
whose advice is OF great value many topics.
including Cuban reciprocity, the tsthmian canal
and trust legislation. Speaker Henderson and
Senator Allison, Of Iowa. arrived in Washing
ton tonight. and will see the President to-mOr-
row. Others who viii call at the White House
tomorrow are Senator Fairbanks of Indiana;
Representative Cannon. of Illinois, and Repre-
sentative Babcock. Of Wisconsin.