Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-09

THE INFORMATION AShED FUR.
Columbus, O., May S.-Attorney Gen
eral Monnett this afternoon filed in the
Supreme Court his answer to the mo-
ton of the Standard Oil Company, re-
questing that he designate the persons
alluded to in his statement that he had
been approached with offers of brides
to dismiss the suits against the COM
pany, and named Charles B. Squires,
formerly of Cleveland, and now of New
York, as the party through whom the
ale. ed proposition was made. The At
torney General in his answer, says:
The motion having been made to be
heard May Is, the Attorney General
valves the length of time and asks for
an immediate hearing. He concurs in
the request of the defendants that the
court appoint a commissioner to take
the legal testimony which bears upon
the truth of such charges as are set
forth in the complaint, or that such
testimony may be taken in any other
mode that this court may deem eX-
pedient.
'The plaintiff had no means of bring
Ing the defendant into court in con-
tempt without an order from this court,
but the same having been waived by
the entry of appearance by this motion
and to avoid delay, plaintiff complies
with the demands of the motion so far
as it is able The Attorney General
cannot comply with the first request
requiring the plaintiff to name the
person who requested the Hon. Daniel
J. Ryan, but the same can be had
through legal process under the orders
of this court from witnesses who have
the knowledge thereof. The plaintiff
cannot comply with the second request
OF the Standards attorneys compelling
Hon d. K. Watson to furnish the
names of parties who made the offers
and representations in said complaint
set forth, but the same can be obtained
under an order from this court from
witnesses who have such information.
AS TO the third request in the mo-
ton addressed to the Attorney General
to name the party who had the conver-
sations with him and to name parties
connected Herewith representing the
Standard Oil Comany, the Attorney
General says that the party calling him
up from Cleveland and the party max
plant was Charles B. SQuires, former
ly Of Cleveland, now of New York
City; and the stakeholder and Off
Ger representing the Standard Oil Com
pany that Charles B. Squires claimed
were the parties through whom the
proposition had in some way come to
him were Frank Rockefeller, of Cleve-
land, a stakeholder of the Standard
Oil Company; G. B. Squires, secretary
Of the Standard Oil Company, and
Charles N. Haskell, late of New York
City"
The Attorney General says that to
ascertain in what way Charles B.
Squires received his communications
from the above parties the State will
be compelled to take testimony under
an order of this Court.
The only agent or employee of the
Standard Oil Company" the Attorney
General says, that plaintiff can furn-
1sh the Court under that motion, that
paid the expenses of Dewitt C. Jones
and heard at least part of the converse
tfon referred to in the paragraph of the
original complaint and the only name
that plaintiff can furnish to this Court
without legal process is the name furn-
1shed plaintiff by Dewitt G. Jones.
namely that of Virgil p Kline, one of
the attorneys in this case, then repre-
sentlng the Standard Oil Company.
The relationship existing between the
Standard Oil Company and Virgil P.
Kline and Dewitt C. Jones in this be-
half can only be obtained by the Court
authorizing the testimony to be taken
OF such parties having the information
thereof"