Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-21
A QUESTION FOR MONN[TI.
Standard Oil Company Attorneys
After Information.

Standard Oil Company Attorneys
After Information.
THEY WANT THE ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL OF OHIO TO TELL WHO
OFFERED TO BUY HIM OFF-DE-
CLARE THE STANDARD is NOT
RESPONSIBILITY O N N EFT T
PROMISES TO ANSWER AFTER
HE CONSULTS WITH THE OHIO
SUPREME COURT-THE CASE OF
THE BUCKEYE PIPE LINE COM
PANY TAKEN UP-GEO. RICE
GIVES SOME FIGURES ON
STANDARD OIL COMPANY PROF
ITS.
New York, March 20.-Upon the ar
rival of the interested parties in the
Standard Oil Company hearing at the
Hoffman House it was decided to take
no testimony to-day. 1t was agreed
TO have hearing in the case of the
State of Ohio against the Buckeye Pipe
Company, a branch of the Standard Oil
Company, in the Office of Mrs. Mills
acting as commissioner for the State.
Messrs. Elliott and Kline, counsel for
the Standard Oil Company, sent let
ter to Attorney General Monnett, of
Ohio. to-day. demanding that he make
public the name of the man who Of
fered him a bride to discontinue his
fight This is the letter:
"Hon. F. S. Monnett, Attorney General
of Ohio:
"On March 4th inst, George Rice an
nounced to the public press that
bride of five hundred thousand dol
lars. less a hundred thousand dollars
for commission, had been offered you
to induce you to stop or delay proceed
ings against the Standard Oil Company
now pending in the Supreme Court of
Ohio.
"You are reported to have denied
entirely, at Toledo, the Rice story, but
by the time you arrived at Columbus,
the same day, you concluded that the
story was true, and accordingly in
various newspapers on the morning of
the fifth inst. you made statement
that the Standard Oil Company through
some friend of yours had offered you
| S400 900 to influence your action with
resrect to the cases pending against it
| and other companies in the supreme
! Court of Ohio REPUTABLE newspapers
Of the State. notably the Cleveland
Leader. the Toledo Blade and the Ohio
State Journal, have called upon you to
disclose the name of the friend who
! thus corruptly approached you.
"You are reported in the Plain Deal
! er of the 7th instant as saying that If
you were to give out the name of your
| friend, half a dozen departments would
be after him at once, and 1t might lie
they could force or persuade him to
keep his mouth shut You do not
seem to realize that the reason given
| by YOU for refusing to disclose the
name of the party whom you say was
commissioned to offer you 100000 ana
therefore you must have known that
the alleged friend made the offer to
you without the authority or know
ledge of the Standard Oil Co.
IN the New York World, Of the
ninth inst, you are reported as saying
that you had written the friend who
tried to bride you that you would not
expose him until public interest de-
manded it.
in another interview in the Cincin-
natl Commercial-Tribu of the 9th
instant, you are reported as saying
that your friend had agreed to protect
you The arrangement for protection
therefore seems to be mutual.
80 far as your statements connect
the Standard Oil Company with any at
tempt to bride, they are totally false.
You have the names or claim to have,
not only of the friend who approached
YOU. but also of others acting with him
because on the 14th instant you said
in the public prints that these men
were telegraphing you from New YORK.
"While nothing in your story has dl-
rectlv connected the Standard Oil Com
pany with the attempted bribery, you
have desired the public to assume said
connections. We now demand that
Won give the name or names of the per-
sons who made such an offer to you
claiming to represent the Standard Oil
Company. that we may take steps to
quiet this last and most vicious Oh the
many false and sensational stories OF
which you have given currency.
NJ. F. ELLIOTT,
VIRGIL P. KLINE,
Attorneys for the Standard Oil Co.
New York, March 20, 1899.
With reference to the letter written
to him by Messrs. Elliott and Kline,
Attorney General Monnett said he
would reply to it after he had con-
suited with the Supreme Court OF ONO.
hearing in the case Of the State
Of Ohio against the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company was begun this afternoon in
the office of Commissioner c. Edgar
Mills. The hearing was held that the
attorney general might take deposit
lions in the proceedings brought in
Ohio to annul the charter of the Buck
eve Pipe Line Company for violation
Of the antitrust laws of Ohio. The
claim of the prosecution is that the
Standard Oil Trust still exists and that
despite the law the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company is still member of it. The
Buckeve Pipe Line Company was or
ganized for the transportation OF crude
oil. Its headquarters are at Lima. O.,
and its capital stock is 100000 H. H.
Rogers is the president
At the proceedings to-day NJ. +. Eli
OFT and Virgil P. Kline represented the
company.
Attorney General Monnett appeared
for the State of Ohio. w. L. Flagg
acted as his assistant.
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