The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-01
AN OIL KINGS BOLD GAME
HE DENIES THAT THE COMMITTEE
CAN EMPLOY COUNSEL.

Congressional Permission Declared q
Prerequisite-The Committee Over
rules the Point-A Denial That the
Trust Tried to Control Foreign Oil
The Pennsylvania Railroads Rebates.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-ln the trust"
investigation before the House Committee
on Manufactures, to-day, John d Rocka
feller, President of the Standard Oil Trust,
said he would furnish to the committee, at
his convenience, the number Of barrels Of
crude oil refined by all the lines connected
with or controlled by the Standard Oil
Trust in the year 1887, and statement of
the capacity of all the refneries secured and
controlled by the Standard Trust since Jan.
|, 1888. The trust, he said, had made no
attempt to control the product of foreign
oil, and no person connected with his
company had TO his knowledge been ap-
pointed Consul to a port on the Black sea.
The witness said that he would furnish to
the committee a list of the Standard Oil
Trust certificates issued TO the several com
panies forming the trust in exchange for
the property turned over by them, aggre-
eating 10,000,0 900, the sum of the certifi-
Gates issued in exchange
Clement II. Griscom. Of Philadelphia,
connected with the National Transit Com
pany, was next called. He declined to tell
who owned the per cent. capital Of that
company not owned by the Standard trust
THE RAILROADS REBATES.
John Lloyd, Jr., formerly of Philadelphia,
and connected with his brother, Malcolm
Lloyd, in the oil refining business, testified
that all their crude oil was transported over
lines controlled by the Pennsylvania road
The rebates on crude oil received by them
amounted to probably 10c. or 15c. per bar
| rel, but the witness could not tell exactly
| how much.
At this point John Scott of the counsel
for the Pennsylvania railroad, raised an
| objection against further questioning of
| the witnesses by the counsel employed by
the committee. He held that the co Imittee
had no thority to employ counsel without
the sanction of Congress. 1t was not
proper for the committee TO employ Mr..
| Gowan (acting as counsel for the commit
| tee) whom he believed to be counsel for
the Tide Water Pipe Line Company.
Mr.. Gowan retorted that any statement
| that Mr. Scott might make TO the effect
| that he was In positi ION which made it inn
proper or indelicate for him to act as coun-
| sci for the committee was absolutely and
| totally false. He had acted with the Tide
| Water P1pe Line Company, but only Tor
the purpose of preventing its absorption by
the Standard Company.
| The committee hereupon went into execu-
| tive session to consider the points and OBJ
| jections made by Mr.. Scott After the
committee had opened its doors to the
| public the chairman stated that the objec-
tions raised by Mr.. Scott were overruled.
MR. SCOTT oBDURATE.
Mr. Scott stated that he would instruct
the employees Of the Pennsylvania railroad
in answering questions put TO them. He
only insisted at the committee had not
the power to question witnesses by counsel.
The chairman also stated that
| the committee had decided not
to compel witnesses to answer questions re-
| garding the individual holding Of trust cer-
| tiicates issued by the Standard company,
or those questions calling for the disclosure
| of the names Of outside holders of shares of
stock Of those companies belonging only in
! part to the Standard Oil Trust.
George NJ. Taylor, of Philadelphia, audi
| tor of the Pennsylvania road. said that so
| far as he knew, there was no difference OF
rates to different persons on crude and re.
| fined oil at the present time
| John S. Wilson, General Traffic Manager
of the Pennsylvania road, testified to the
| same effect