The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-21
Mr.. MONNETT Is "DARED"
BY Standard Oil Attorneys to Reveal
a kribe GiVer's Name.

New York, March 20.-Upon the arrival
of the interested parties in the Standard
Oil company hearing at the Hoffman
House it was decided to take no testimony
today 1t was decided to have a hearing
of tn cease of the state of Ohio against
the Buckeye Pipe company. a branch of
the Standard Oil company, in the office
of Mr.. Mills, acting as commissioner for
the state.
Messrs Elliott and Kline counsel for the
Standard Oil company, sent letter to At
torney General Monet of Ohio today de-
manding that he make public the name OF
the man who offers him bride to discon-
tinue his fight. This is the letter:
Hon. f. S. Monet, Attorney General
of Ohio: On March 4, George Rice an
nounced to the public press that a bride of
500, Co., less 100000 commission, had been
offered you to induce you TO stop or delay
proceedings against the Standard Oil COM
pany now pending in the supreme court of
Ohio.
you are reported to have denied entire
ly, 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 verious news
papers on the morning of the 9TH instant,
you made a statement that the Standard
Oil company through some friend OF
yours had offered you 100000 to influence
your action with respect to cases pending
against it and other companies in the
supreme court of Ohio Reputable news
papers Of the state, notably the Cleveland
State Journal, have called upon you to
disclose the name of the friend who thus
corrptly approached you.
''YOu are reported in an interview in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer of the 7th, as say
ing that If you were to give out the name
Of your friend, half a dozen departments
would be after him at once, and it might
be 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 your
friend is an admission that the company
does not know the name OF the party whom
YOU say was commissioned TO offer you
10000 and therefore You must have known
that the alleged friend made the offer to
you without the authority of knowledge
of the Standard Oil company.
In the New York World of the 9th in
slant, you are reported as saying that you
had written to the friend who tried to
bribe you that you would not expose him
until public interest demanded it
IN another interview, in the Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune, of the 9TH instant,
YOU are reported as saying that your
friend mad agreed TO protect YOU The
arrangement for protection therefore
seems t obe mutual. So ffr as your state
ments connect the Standard oil company
with any attempt 10 bride YOU, they are
totally false. You have the names. or
claim TO have. not only Of the friend who
approached you. bur also Of others acting
with him. because on the 18th instant You
said in the public press that these men
were telegraphing you from New York
'.Nnue nothing in your story has directly
connected the STANDARD OH company with
the attempted bribery, you have desired
the pubic to assume such connection. We
now demand thar you give the name or
names OF the persons who made such an
offer 10 YOU claiming ID represent the
Standard or company. that we may take
steps 10 quiet this last and most vicious
1t the many false and sensational stories
10 which you have given currency.
- sned) N r ELLIOTT.
VIRGIL 2. CLINE.
Attorneys for the Standard on Go.
New York. March - lSsa.'
With reference 10 the letters written 70
hun by Messrs Elliott ard Cline. Attorney
General Monet saio he wou.d reply q IL
after ne had consulted with the SlUren'o
coU-- Of Ohio.