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Show j AFTER THE TRUSTS. I Propod Constitutional AmfDlmenl o I Control the Combln.L Representitive Ray of New York, chairman of the house committee on judiciary and at the head of a special i sub-committee on trusts, has introduced intro-duced the following joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution: con-stitution: 'Resolved, etc., that the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the Unitud States: "Article 1 ' The congress of the L'nited States shall have power to repress re-press monopolies and combinations; to create and dissolve corporations aud ! dispose of their property, to make all laws necessary and proper for the execution exe-cution of the foregoing powers." Such powers may be exercised by the several states in any manner not in conflict with the laws of the. United States. |