Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-12
Mr.. Emery Declares That It Was Due
to Railway Discrimination.
his EXPERIENCE LAYING PIPE LINES
Testimony Before the Industrial
Commission.
o TIL E r S TO BE II E A r D

| Former State Senator Lewis Emery, jr.,
| of Pennsylvania to day resumed his testi-
| mony before the industrial commission,
| meeting in the Bliss building, opposite the
Capitol. Mr.. Emery wanted to see the
| auditor and bookkeepers of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad put on the stand and made
to testify in regard to rebates given the
Standard Oil Company. He made light of
| the claim that the success of the Standard
| Oil Company is the result of great COM
potency the part of the managers of
| that company.
| "All these trusts are built up under the
| railroads. said Mr.. Emery. Il make the
| bold charge that had there been no dis
| elimination by the railroads there would be
| no trusts today. This discrimination is also
the result of the coal combination, and the
| United States is responsible for it,
| The rebates upon Oil can easily be proved
| if the books of the railroads could be seen
| by the courts. These great corporations,
| he said, come into the courts and say they
| will not show their books because it would
| incriminate them.
You can prove it, Mr. Chairman and
| Commissioners, he said. ut is in your
| power to do So
The Standard OIL Company was not his
mark especially. He was a miller, farmer
and connected with other business. lie
| was not after the Standard Oil Company,
| Dut Wdllteu Tic W oISS VI lhS SOoheAy SoA
| rected.
| Mr. Emery read from one of the reports
of the congressional investigation into the
Standard Oil Company some years ago
| when Frank Rockefeller was on the stand.
Mr.. Rockefeller testified to the closing
down of refineries in Cleveland and Pitts
burg, and said the Standard Oil Company
| officials told refiners they would have to
| sell to them or be closed out in business,
| because they had the advantage with the
railroads. Mr.. Frank Rockefeller
brother of John d. Rockefeller.
Growth of the Standard Oil.
1t was suggested that the testimony that
rebates Were given by the railroads twenty
years ago was of little use to the commits
| sion but the witness said he was merely
proceeding to show the way in which these
| rebates had grown up, and declared that
rebates had been given at least as late as
1898. From the year 1871 when the Stand
| ard people refined 600 barrels of oil a day,
or per cent of the entire output, their
| business grew 50 rapidly during seven years
| that in 1878 they had from so to 90 per cent
of the output. This remarkable growth, he
said was the result Of advantage from
railroad Discrimination
Opposition to the Standard.
Mr.. Emery told OF the difficulties he had
encountered in laying a pipe line for Oil
along the northern boundary of Pennsyl-
vania, after having laid many miles of
| their pipe line with an understanding with
| the president of the Erie Railroad Com
pany, whose tracks they were to go under
at Hancock. When the pipe had been laid
and there were only 120 feet of pipe line
under the railroad to connect the whole
proceedings were begun which prevented
them from making the, connection. The
line was rendered useless and had cost
10000 He had satisfied himself that the
| opposition to his line had come from the
Standard Oil Company. He told of other
no "a in,
his business, and which he believed were
inspired by the same company
The witness told of hand to- hand conflicts
between his men and men of the companies
controlled by the Standard Oil, when they
attempted to go under the Delaware, Lack
aWanna and western railroad line. They
had maintained possession of their crossing
at the railroad for seven months and I'M
I'll the lower court sustained them.
But recently a decision had been rem
dered by higher court ander which they
Will have to remove their line The dec-
sion was on the ground that the railroad
owned not only an easement, but title IN
fee to the land, and they could insist
on the removal of the pipe line, which was
doing no harm. The decision was rendered
in New Jersey. and the witness considered
it a great blow to modern transportation
interests in this country.
AT 1:1o a recess was taken.
Going to the Trust Conference.
The commission has named besides Prof
j. W. jerks, Senator James II. Kyle Mr..
J. NJ. Farquhar Representative Theobold
Often, Mr.. C. ]. Harris and Representative
l.. F. Livingston to represent it at the
trust conference of the Civic Federation. to
begin in Chicago tomorrow and continue
for three days.
Mr.. Farquhar is to represent the subcom-
mission on manufactures, Mr.. Often on
mining, Mr.. Harris on transportation and
Colonel Livingston on agriculture. Sena-
tor Kyle designated the represen-
tative-at-large of the commission
Arbitration of Trades Disputes.
The subcommission on manufactures has
named Commissioner Albert Clarke to Sc
cure the dispositions of the master builders
and employees of Boston as to the workings
of arbitration and Cancellation in the set
Element of trade disputes and agreements
on wages and rules of work. While the
SubcommisSiOn was in Boston the matter
of arbitration between the master builders
in Boston and their workmen was brought
10 the attention of the SubcommiSSion, but
owing to the fact that the subcommisson
had to hurry to New York to meet APP
poin tments there sufficient time was not
given to the investigation of the subject
hence Mr.. Clarke's appointment for the
purpose.
More About the Standard.
Only two more witnesses in connection
with the Standard Oil Company will be
These are Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Company, and Mr..
George Rice. whose complaint was made
the basis of the action of the Ohio courts
against the Standard Oil Company. Seven
or eight other days of October will be given
up to taking of testimony in connection
with other industrial combinations, among
which will be the whisky and steel trust.
The probability is shat the first of the wit
nesses will be called on the afternoon of
October r. and the hearings with others
continued to the 21st. :,
1t is expected that the commission will
have a report on some branches of the
| trust question to Submit to Congress before
the LIST of March. =
Other BranchesAof Industry.
The commission has arranged to take tes-
timony on other branches of industry up to
the 23d instant. and so many days of next
| month as are not to a. given to the ex-
animation of trust witnesses.
Mr. Samuel Gornpers, the president of
| the A. F. of L., and Mr.. T. " Powderly.
| the commissioner ofla immigration. are
among those who will be heard this week
one of them Thursday and the other Fri
| day One of them will testify on general
| labor topics and the other on Immigration