Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-11
A CONSULTATION.
Carlisle and Mills Alarmed at the
Amount of Business Showed Aside
by the Tariff Discussion.
The Special Committee on Manufac.
lures Closely Looking After she
Sugar and Standard Oil Trusts.
legs OF o Monopolistic Trading Com.
pany of That Territory.
The APPROPRIATION BILLS.

The APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Special to the Gazette
WASHINGTON, May 4-The Speaker
and other members of the committee Oh
rules had an informal talk this mornins
concerning the disposal of other bushes!
of the House thst is oeing showed aside
by the long tsrif discussion. Il was
concluded that nothing could be done II
the way of setting aside day:
for special orders until /,
was known lust when the general discus
sion of the tariff should end. II the de-
bate goes on without interruption they
must wait until the seventeen days will
expire, but the time may be broken
in upon. 1t was the general
idea that the legislative sppropria-
ton bill would be called up
some time heading the tariff discussion
Mr.. Randall, however, hss failed to make
any move SO as to interrupt the debate,
End it is understood that he has made up
his mind not to do so st his own
volitlon. just ct present he is confined
to his room with an attack of sickness,
but il he is not pre- vented il is not his
purpose to interrupt the tariff by calling
up any measure. Ii the Speaker and MIR.
Mills think it desirable that the legisle-
tive bills should pass without waiting for
the tariff to be disposed OF and insist
upon taking it up he will not object, but
he will not do anything that might be
held to give color to the stories abou.
his antsgoniziug the ways and means
committee. He is determined not to
sntagonlzs it with any measure to en-
phasize the fact that it has never been his
purpose to follow such tsctics.
PARDONED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The President hiss granted q pardon
IN the case of Fred M. Riy,
convicted OF maIder in the
Indian Territory, sentenced to be hanged
April IL, 1888, but whose sentence was
subsequently committed to Imprisonment
for life. The President says he has been
Convinced Ray is an innocent man.
REFUSES TO DIvULGE THE STANDARD
SECRETS.
WARRINGTON, May AFTER q secret
session this morning the House COM
mittee on manufacturing opened its
doors. The chairman said it was the
understanding that Mr.. Flagg, attorney
for the Standard OIL Company, would
furnish the committee list of the per-
sons to whom the $4,000 COG interest
cerufcates had been issued in exchange
for the property turned over by them to
the Standard Trust. Mr.. Flagg said he
understood that the committee had
waived its demand for the production OF
such statement. If that was not the
csse he must respectfully decline to com
ply with the committees wishes on the
ground that it was strictly private
matter. Mr. Van 81. Buckley, superlnten-
dent Of the West Virginia Transportation
Company, having pipe line from the
Macksburg ell district, testified that the
comp.ny's pipes had been torn up by
employees OF the Cleveland and Marietta
Oil Company and the Transportation
company h.rassed it until it had been
practically forced to sell out to the
Standard.
BLIGHrING MONOPOLY.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-The Secretary
of the Interior to-day transmitted to the
House 8 report by Governor Swineford
of Alaska upon the operations of the
Alaska Fur and Seal Company ALASKA
Commercial Company, in which he al
leges that the company mas grossly abused
the natives, and attaches effi1avits to sus-
tain his charges. He concludes with
quotation from bis last annual report that
IL would be better to allow every fur seal
to be ext minated than to continue
so blight!ng q monopoly. The
affidavit is made by
Isaac andersen, resident Of California,
who says that he wss in the employ OF
the Alaska company snd deputy marshal
at Amslaska. As an illustration OF the
company in conducting business in court
he details cases where, he found himself
in conflict with the company whenever ne
attempted to protect the governments
interests, and declares that no United
States official can properly perform his
duty il Alaska whenever the company has
any interest without mourning its dis
pleasure and coming into open hostility
with the agents of the company.
INVESTIGATING TRUSTS.
WASHINGTON, Mey George Rice OF
House committee on manufactures to-
Day. He produced statements show
ing the difference in tariff rates
on coal oil and cottonseed oil on the
Missouri Pacific and Queen and Crescent
Railroads, coal oil going south and cot
tonseed oil north. The Louisville and
Nashville Railway had absolutely refused
to give the witness rates south from
Nashville, and he was Obliged to ship it
In a roundabout way and pay
heavier tariff than that charged
other companies. For the past
five or six years ne had received letters
from persons buying oil OF him in which
they complained they had been threatened
by the Standard Oil Company for pur-
CHASING oil from MIN. He had large
number CT letters and would produce
them before the committee. Witness did
not think the interstate commerce act
was radical enough. There were two
important amendments needed, viz: That
the fine and penaitiesprovided By the act
should apply to the shipper as well as to
the carrier, and that these fines
and penalties should go to
the irforner instead of the government.
c. N. Adams Of ST. Louis, secretary OF
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, 8 COM
pany sffiliated with the Standard, testified
that the compsny's rate on tank oil since
the Interstate commerce act went into
effect from Cleveland to St. Louis was Al
cents per barrel, and on the barrel oil
81 cents. A number Of questions were pat
TO the witness in regard to rates prior to
the interstate commerce act, but his re-
ply WAS he could not answer the ques-
lion. A number Of letters were prooucec
rom various persons on which Mr.. Rice
had based his statement that the Standard
attempted to intimidate dealers who