UNITED STATES CONGRESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 297, 10 December 1908, Page 2

UNITED STATES CONGRESS

PKESIUEXT KOOSEVELT'S VBJtAL MESSAGE. l/XSEXSATJOXAL BUT FULL OF "MEAT." ESTAJJUSUMEXT O*' NEW STEAMSHIP LINES.

EARLY VACATION OF CUBA. I Received 10, O.'iu a.m. M New York, December 9. S President Roosevelt's message to Con- ll gress was uiisciisatiouul. It rccom- r, mended reform of currency! the adop- ; tion of a law which, while avoiding any unwise attempt to prohibit all com- ; bimitious, would expressly permit combinations that would lie in (Jie interest of I lie public, but would give Mime agency of the National Government full executive control over them; that railways should lie removed from the domain of the anti-trust law and put s unlet- the Inlcr-fa'tate Commerce Comli uii«-ioii, likewise the telegraph aud telcr phone eoiiipnnii's engaged in inter-state : business; fii.il slock watering should oe e prohibited uu l ' stock gambling as far as d possible discouraged.

The message also recommended a progressive inheritance tux oil large fortunes, and fnvored strengthening oldage. pensions by private initiative, strict employers' liability luw covering Government and inter-state business, and n careful safeguard in connection with the power of granting temporary injunctions in latKir disputes. The message described the extreme labor leaders' demands in this mutter a& class legifti la tion of a most brutal form, seeking, aa they did, to legalise black-listing boycotting. President Roosevelt warmly acknowledged the hospitality everywhere extended to the battleship fleet, and dwelt on the increased experience and efficiency of the fleet. He recommended as a corollary of the voyage the establishment, before t-ho Panama Canal la opened, of .satisfactory ocean lines to South America, Asia,' tlie Philippines, and Australasia.

He announced that the occupation of Cuba would cease two months hence.