U.S. A. PBESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11620, 7 May 1906, Page 3

U.S. A. PBESIDENT' S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

THE OIL TRUST. Received May G, 4.13 p.m. New York, May 5. President Roosevelt's message to Congress states that Mr Garfield's report shows that the Standard Oil Trust benefited enormously by un- 1 lawful secret railway rates. He| advises entrusting the Government j with power to control inter-State commerce, to curb monopolies, and prevent railways making coueessions to powerful trusts which the rail-* ways are powerless to control.