South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-07-19

R2ilroad Company. and in charge OF
its transportation business, ia = suit
brought against tina, company by The
State OF Penpsylvan'a ir 1879.
.THg SECRET EXPOSED.
II then appeared that tue Standard
OIL Compsny. rss receiving over anil
above tue sirswbacks allowed TO other
shippers Of oil by that road reba.es
that amounted 10 forty -Diue cents per
barrel crude OF, from tho Bradford
deid and if,y.oua aud one-bal,f5fI)
cents Ter barrel crude oil flom the
o>er hsld 10 tideyater. and six,y-
Tour and one half (64l) cents per
osrrel On rc6aed oil IRON Cleveland
tn ,idewa,er.
Taking the average shipments Of
oil tor several yesre, and allowing to
he Standard sour-ffihs as is share.
It's rehates, on this basis, wohld ~
mount to oTer flee million doatrs a
year, a. advantage before Which tie
Independent refnsrs had necessarily
fallen rrostrate. almost before resl.x,
ing Tho source Of their ruin. FIR. Cas-.
salt VAS rot hy any meats q sinner
beyond other railroad mansgcrs.
When brought TO the stand he spoke
out frankly and 0ithou, evasion, He
disclosed .he rebates allowed by HE
own campany, and stated that he had
seen contracts made by the Erie and
the New York Cen'r,l which were
equally IS pnrtia! to the Standard.
Furthermore, there camc to light in
this testimony one of the most won.
der!ul Of those "ihimbicrig cont'ivan-
ces' for divesting money from tie
treasures OF the railroad c1mpsnies
tia, has ever been known. The 4.
nerican Transfer Company, sabsi,.
iacY Of the Standard. had a capital 81
F. 100000 sn} Nc debt, and owaed
small service OF local p;p4gc, estiu,a
red hy i5s precedent on The itacss
stand e from Gny 10 seventy FIVE
niles.
NJ. Cassa't testified that his com,
pany was paying TO this company
'wenty-s~o aud n-Iaii coats per bar-
rel on all oil carried over its road, no
matter by whom shipped, and his or
der 20 the mp'roiler OF hi company
directing such rebate TO bopsid gave
/ sc the reason Go- tho al!oKauce that
II had been proved 10 his satisfaction
thai Ike or even g.eatcr sum per
barrel was paid 10 tho American
Transfer Company by the Erie nrl
New York Central Companies. The
earning capacity III the American
Transfer Company may be shogn by
taking the yenr 1878, the year imme
distely proceeding Dir. Cassa,ts ,es,i.
mcny. Thirteen million seven hun
drsd and FIFTY thousand barrels OF oil
wee shlppei over these three trunk
lines, on which. ut the rate of twcuty-
tNo and a-ha!f cents per harrci, the
American Transfer Company received
from them inc sum Of s3.095,750.
!, Is doubtful il The history of hu,
man in'Gslry OF enterprise can any
where show another hundred thousand
dollars With sach earring power &C
that which nede up tho CAPITAL stock
of the American TrgIsfer Company
The "subsiiisry corporation had
reached tue zentb of it's Development
in that company.
POWER OF TIE sTAsDARD.
As early az 1877 there was n signal
illu-trstion Of the power Of the STAN
dard over the great trunk lines OF
railroad. The Empire Transporta.
ton Company was corporation own.
iDgas large number OF cars runnin.
over many railroad lines. Il wac a
solicitor of freight, having terminal
facilities OF i's owe, sud, like 40 ez-
press company, bad its ears hauled
over these road. 1t had largo
number Of care for tren porting crude
oil in bulk and its rates we're uniform
and for trade reasoug rs It alleged, it
bad becou.e interested 10 two refine.
ries, one in New York and one In
Philadelphia.
This company known among rail
road men rs the "Green Line" was a
carrier Of oil for independent refiners.
IL threatened the monopoly of the
STANFORD, and that company demsnd.
Cd its exclusion from Tho lines Of the
Pennsylvania Company, alleging as
the reason that no carrier should like.
wise DC q reRne5. Jbo compsnY re-
fused, snd the St8ndsri withdrew its
freight and compelled the other trunk
linus % boein q war Ct rates on the
| Pennay lvanja C0mpsnv.
This laste0 for so7ecal months end
unlil tbat company raised be white
tag Attto demand Or the Standard
70 closed 2 o option which Il held On
+ ,he property Cf Tie Enpiga Trsus-
/ poftotion Company itseii acquiring
ail TIC care, and The pipe lines aud
I retnerIos being conveyed TO that one
OF its OVID affiliated corporations which
tho STANDARD selected
Thus hai The creature become the
master and shown itsalf gres or than
tho corporation whose favoutism chief.
/ ~ bad built 4. mp.
shsll not pur5vs ibis subject. nov
/ only Office, being 20 show, a. eircady
stated, thst the STANDARD O,l trust
i9 The creature OF che rdiToa8 compas
nies; that ). las beer clrried forv5Id
10 power and co1ques' upoa their
shoulders end al lbo expense VI their
stockholders
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