The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-04
TILE STANDARD DEFIANT.
Attorney Flngg Refuses to Name the Hold
ern of Certlncntcs.

WASHINGTON, d. O., May 3.-Chair-
man Bacon, OF the House Manufactures
Committee, announced TO tho Standard
Oil Company's counsel to-day. that the
committee would insist that Secretary
Flagler furnish the names OF those to
whom the Standard Company had dis
tributed the original S70,00O,00O OF GER
titicates.
Mr.. Flagg, the Standard Company's
counsel, said this was contrary to the
committees ruling, and he would de-
cline in the name Oh his client, to fur
nish the information.
V. ii. Bukey, Of the West Virginia
Transportation Company, testified that
the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad had
torn up his company's pipe line, and
further harraSsed it so much that his
company was forced to sell out to the
Standard.
Joshua Merrill, of Boston, testified
that his mandatory had been forced to
go out Of business because OF competi-
ton. He was forced to pay about forty
cents per ton per mile for terminal NOV
ing Of oil. The President OF part of
this terminal road-the New England
was J. A. Bostwick, OF the Standard
Company.
w. B. Crosby, manager of the Eastern
Division OF the Standard Oil Company,
OF Kentucky, testified that the Standard
had always paid full rates on tank and
barreled oil out OF Atlanta and other
Southern points. More than half OF the
oil consigned from the North to South
ern coast towns was in tanks.
MR.. RICE TEsTIPIRs.
Mr., George Rice, Of Marietta, Ohio,
an oil refner and producer, and an op.
poncnt OF the Standard Oil Company,
testified that he had been charged thirty
cents per barrel on oil shipped from
Macksburg to Marietta, while Brundred
& Dale, q Standard afllliatiOn, paid only
five cents on his competitor. Brundred
& Dale were allowed twenty-five cents
on each barrel transported for the
witness. Witness said he was build
ing up a profitable business when
the rates were advanced in con-
sequence of an agreement made by the
different railroads running South. 1t
had also been proven in court that wit
ness competitors were given notice Of
rates that would be given witness be-
fore he had himself been notified. Wit
ness produced a statement showing the
difference between the rates charged
him and those charged the Standard,
and said that it showed that his rates
had been advanced from 10 to 100 per
cent, while the Standards were un-
changed. He produced various vouch-
err showing where railroads had charged
him more than tariff rates. Another
complaint was that OF carryingof tank
cars Mt an estimated weight which was
less than real weight. The result OF
these determinations was that within
fifteen months witness had to shut up
fourteen out OF twenty-four agencies,
and quit supplying thirty-nine out OF
seventy.three towns. Witness was com.
PEELED TO pay the inspector OF oils in
Georgia and Kentucky under State laws
over 100 per cent more than the Stand
ard paid, because his oil was in barrels
and the Standards in tanks. To ascer.
tain whether the increased prices paid
by witness were due to the fact that his
oil was in barrels he had written the
Louisville 4 Nashville, the Newport
News 4 Mississippi Valley and other
roads asking If the same rates would be
given him on tank cans that were given
the Standard, but had never received
any answers to his letters.
Mr.. Archibald was recalled and again
refused to produce a list OF persons to
whom original Standard Oil Trust certi-
ficates were issued,