Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-10
A COPYRIGHTED PAMPHLET
How Mr. Riss Proposed to Give His Tes-
timohy to the Commission.
After a session With Closed Doors 1t
Was Decistssl to Hear Him
"a Tomorrow.

The industrial commission met today and
continued the exaHfaation of witnesses on
the subject of trusts. From today until
the 11th instant witnesses will testify con-
corning trusts, and from that date until
the Odd they wilTbe' Called to give evidence
on general subjects in which the commits
sion is interested
The following is me ffst of witnesses to
come before the c5fanfssion in November
as arranged todat."t - 80
''.dTrusts.
Tenth, George Flee New York, anti
Standard Oil; A. DE- Gall, Montreal. aneti-
Standard Oil. 18th C. n. King, New Jer-
sey corporation faws and methods, Jersey
| City; ]. f. Smith, Delaware corporation
laws and methods, Wilmington. 14th F,
G. J. Wise. vice president National Shear
Company. Newark; j. W. Oates, president
American Steel ana Wire Company. Chi
cage; Max Pam, general counsel, Chicago
| 10th, N. B. Rogers. Danbury, Conn, In
ternational Silver Company; w. E. Wat
rous, Hartford. Conn. International Silver
Company; Samuel Dodd president lnterna-
tional Silver Company, Meriden, Conn.
10Th w. II. Grifaths, Washington, Pa,
Steel and Tin Plate Company: H. E: Co
| ing, Baltimore, Md, steel. nth, s. NJ.
Rice. president American Spirits Manufac
turing Company, New York.
General Lines.
10th, Samuel Gompers, president Ameri-
| can Federation of'Iabor Washington, D.
c.; 22d, Joseph Bishop, secretary board of
arbitration, Ohio; 23d, Martin Fox. presi-
dent National Iron Moders' Union, Cincin-
| natl. Some day between the goth and the
oath. yet to be selected John Wanamaker,
on department stores, Philadelphia
Copyrighted Pamphlet Objected To.
Mr.. George Rice an Independent oil pro-
Queer and refiner Of Marietta, Ohio, was to
appear before the commission this morning
and before 10 O'Clock he at the Bliss
building. He brought with him copies of
copyrighted pamphlet. entitled 'resti-
mony of Mr.. George Rice before the indus
trial commission -
Members of the commission, upon seeing
this pamphlet which it was proposed to
| offer as evidence, objected TO receiving it,
because, it is stated 1t contained personal
| matter not relevant to the Investigation,
and declamatorS statements rather than
matters Of fact, and was copyrighted.
Mr. Rice at once changed the copyright
| ute OF his work to make 1t read Proposed
testimony. &c. The matter was brought
| to the attention of the commission and
| session with closed doors, lasting for over
| an hour, was held, during which the mat
| ter was discussed Parts of the testimony
| regarded as irrelevant were Indicated and
| 1t looked as if Mr. Rice would go on the
stand. but finally it was decided to defer
| the taking of his testimony until tomorrow
morning. D. - r.
Right to COPYRIGHT Contested
Members Of the commission stated to a
| Star reporter that Mr.. Rice told the COM
| mission he intended TO send out the testi-
| mony he had printed and copyrighted for
| campaign puFpusesF The commission con-
| tended that g. witness could rot copyright
| testimony offered before them their con-
| tentton being that such testim )ny belonged
| TO the government and not to the witness.
Oil Production in Canada.
| At 2:10 O'Clock Mr. Andrew ID. Gall, pres
| ident of the GaIl-Schneitier Oil Company of
| Montreal, Canada, appeared and testified
Mr. Gall PROPOSED Ito give information re-
\ garding the oil industry in Canada His
| business was nj thF marketing of petroleum
| products in Quebec. He said they dealt AL
most exclusively In American oil THE pro
| auction of oHIin Canada, he said, was con-
| hned almost exclusively to western On
| tario. The production of oil there is almost
| exclusively in the hands of individuals.
The Imperial Oil Company Of Canada he
| said, Is now controlled by the Standard OIL
| Company, that company having bought the
| stock The imperial company controls
| about % per cent of the production IN
Canada, the total production amounting to
| 10000 or 100000 barrels of oil annually.
| The oil not controlled by the Imperial Oil
| Company is produced by small Individual
producers.
| Closed by the Standard.
Before the Standard got control of the
| refining business in Canada, the witness
| said. there were five reineries in active op-
Grafton and four not in operation, but not
| closed up Now all have been closed ex-
| cept the refinerfes Of the Imperial Refining
| Company and a, refinery of the Standard.
| In 1898, of the refined oil used in Canada.
| GIL per cent was Canadian, while
| 3S.9 per cent was brought there from the
| United States. La '92 only 81 per cent of
| the oil used there was from the United
States.
| In 1892 oil in ST. Johns was delivered in
! bulk at ~ cents a gallon. In 1898 just be-
| fore the Standard got control of the I'M
| perial Oil Company, the price was 12h
| cents, while at present it Is IT cents gal
| Ion delivered in bulk at St. Johns
| The price of crude oil has gone up to
| $1.60 a barrel. 1t had generally been
| charged that the Standard Oil Company
| had put up the price of refined oil. but not
| the price of crude oil, other reasons being
| given for the increase of the price of the