MR ROOSEVELT'S ADVISE TO CONGRESS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 5

MR ROOSEVELT'S ADVISE TO CONGRESS.

VALEDICTORY MESSAGE

"(United Press Association. —Copyright.) Received Decorober 10, 12.20 a.m. NEW YORK, December 9. Mr Roosevelt's message- to Congress •contained nothing sensational, it recommended a reform of the currency, and the adoption of a law which, avoiding any unwise attempt to prohibit all combinations, will expressly permit combinations, which are in the interests of the public, but-will give some agency of the national Government the full ■executive control over them. The railways should bo removed from their present domain by an anti-trust law, and put under an inter-State commerce commission, likewise'-the.telegraph and telephone companies engaged in the inter-Stato business. Stock watering should be prohibited, and stock gambling as far as possible discouraged. Ths message recommended a progressive inheritance tax on large - fortunes, and favoured the strengthening of old ago pensions by the private initiative of a strict employers' liability law, covering the Government and inter-State business. • It advised a careful safeguard in connection with the power granting a temporary injunction in lasJfHHir disputes, and described the extreme labour leaders' • demands in this '' matter of class legislation of the most brutal form as seeking to legalise black-listing and boycotting. Mr Roosevelt warmly acknowledged the hospitality everywhere extended to the American fleet.- ' Tho Panama Canal will open satisfactory ocean lines to : South America, Asia, Phillipines and Australasia. Ho announced that the occupation of Cuba would cease two months hence.