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WILSON TO CALL
EXTRA SESSION
To Reconvena Congress Before
April Is Next.
TO REVISE THE TARIFF
President-EIeet Announces Purpose Of
Incoming Administration-Sails For
Bermuda,

Incoming Administration-Sai For
Bermuda.
New York. Nov. 16.-President-elect
Wilson announced that be will call
vongress together into extraordinary
session not later than April Is OF next
year to revise the tariff.
Ii his statement made public in
New York on the eve OF his departure
IoI four weeks vacation in Bermuda,
ne says that he has determined upon
this course not only because he was
elected On a platform which declared
Iol an Immediate downward revision
OF the tariff schedules, but also be.
cause he feels 1t Is due to the bust.
ness interests of the country that they
should be nlieved of all uncertainty
As to what :,ae general purpose of the
incoming administration at Washing,
ton Is.
While the platform adopted at Bal.
.imore declared that the Democratic
party believes that any other tariff
than one designed for revenue pur-
poses is unconstitutional, cognizance
was taken of fthe.fact that a policy OF
protection has so ingrained itself into
the commercial interests of this coun.
try that 1t would be .unwise to attemp,
anything more than a gradual elimina-
ton of the duties considered obnox-
ious The demand that this gradual
reduction be instituted Immediately
was nevertheless uneQuivocal.
Beyond his bald statement that he
will call an extraordinary session the
president-elect has made no comment
on the situation other than that so far
as he was concerned the pledges OF
his party and its platform would be
carried out.
on the steamship Bermudian and will
rest there until Dec 16. One of his
first acts on arriving in Bermuda will
bs to call upon the governor of Ber,
muda and to request him that he be
permitted to spend his time there
without recognition OF his official
status, either as governor of New Jer-
sey or as president-elect of the United
States.
He is accompanied by Mrs, Wilson
and their two younger daughters, the
Misses Jesise and Eleanor Wilson
When the governor and his party
left Princeton for New York he board.
ed the train at Princeton Junction,
where he went through the private car
Rockburn and was Immediately In
vited to join in the festivities there go
ing forward. He declined with thanks
and laughter when, he learned who
were the men in the car and what
their purpose was.
It appears that one evening during
the campaign. Charles Prettyman, OF
Marion, Pa, and a real estate agent
Of Philadelphia wagered $4,000 against
$25OO that the next president of the
United States would be Democrat.
]. c. D. Hendrickson, a woolen mer-
chant, took the bet on the condition
that the man who won 1t should
spend at least $500 in entertaining
the sixteen men who at that time hap
pened to be in the Manufacturers
club, where the odds had been Of
fered.
Mr.. Prettyman, of course, won the
bet, and it was for the purpose of
spending that $500 that he was in the
private car with Mr.. Hendrickson and
fourteen of their friends. The car was
chartered in Philadelphia and came
through to New York to give the six
teen an opportunity to have a good
time. They went to the Waldorf for
dinner, to a show in the evening, and
when they get back to Philadelphia
each man will be wearing gold watch
as a souvenir gift of Mr.. Prettyman.