The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-07
KNOCK AT MONNETT
IN FORTHCOMING REPORT TO COW
GREss BY THE INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION
STANDARD OIL MAN TALKS
Says the Former Attorney General
Of Ohio Is a Perjurer-Commi
sion Has CoveredfWIde
Ground. -

WASHINGTON. Aug! Ga speciaI
committee of the Industrial commission
met today to begin work on the draft
of the report to be made to congress
at it's next session. Several afida Wits
were received and formally accepted by
the committee Tor inclusion in it's re-
port
John B. Archbold, vice president of +he
Standard Oil company, in an affidavit
vigorously attacks the ahldavits sub
nhtted last June by former Attorney
General F. S. Monnett, of Ohio: Charles
b. Matthews. M. L. Lockwood and 7
w. Lee, declaring that Mr.. Monnett in
his reiteration of charges. reflects on
the purity of the Ohio supreme court
concerning the charges of attempted
bribery of Mr.. Monnett by the standard
Oil company, he characterizes as false
Mr.. Monnett's statement that instead
OF the trust counting investigation. thew
deliberately evaded and suppressed an
investigation of these proper charges
He says Mr.. Monnett did give notice that
he would take testimony before a notary
public, "a proceeding he knew to he IL
legal, preposterous and contemptuous
Concerning Mr. Monnetts testimony
charging the Standard Oh companv with
burning its books, Mr. Archbold's afi
davit says: There was in his evidence
both suppression of truth and suggestion
of falsehood; and now after two wears
granted for reflection and repentance
thoroughly discredited by the records of
the court he represented he again re-
turns to the charge in his affidavit filed
before the commission in June, 1901 pre-
tending he has found new evidence
leave him face to face with the record,
that the commission may Judge"
Daniel r. Hayne, general solicitor NJ
the Merchants and Miners Transporfa-
ton company, in a communication in
ciuded in the report, recommends an act
oil congress specifically covering the Inv
ing, receiving and selling of any money
goods, bank notes or other things which
may be stolen or taken feloniously.
TELEPHONES AND TELEGRAPHs
e. Hall, vice president and general
manager of the American Telegraph and
1elephone company, submits an affidavit
concerning telephone conditions He saws
the charges for the service are higher
In this country than in Europe. but that
FAIR comparison is almost impossible
because of the many differences between
the services here and abroad The great
est single factor, he says, is the COM
paratively low cost Of labor in Eurone
lie puts the United States in the lead
IN telephone development. Next to this
country In the number of telephone sta
tons are Germany, with 229, 991; Great
Britain 171,66O; Sweden, 1850; France
599N Switzerland 1854; Austria. S2,255;
Russia, 1886, and Norway, 23446.
A supplementary affidavit made bv
Prof. Frank Parsons, of Boston. is de-
signed to refute the testimony Of Vice
President Clark, of the Western
Union Telegraph company. and Gen
eral Manager Bethel, of the New York
Telephone company. He charges that the
Western Union is overcaptalized. and
submits detailed figures from official re-
ports to support his charge. The aver
age actual receipts for all telegraph mes
sages In England according to him, are
10 cents as compared with 81 cents in the
United States He claims that COM
parsons as to the relative extension of
the use OF the telephone under private
ownership in the United States, COM
pared with that abroad, are misleading.
being based on carefully selected cities
Romyn Hitchcock, New York civil
engineer, in one of the affdavits. adj
Vocates government postal telegram.
declaring that the present system pre-.
vents improvements in methods and re-
duction of charges to the public