Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-22
CONTROL STANDARD OIL
Kansas People Seeking Federal
Supervision of the Great
Oil Trust
THE TALK AT WASHINGTON
Great Interest Being Taken in the
Fight Being Made Against the Great
octopus-cabinct Meeting Talks
Over situation-Lease of Oil Lands
Other News.

washington, Feb. 22-The Standard
OH Company continued yesterday Y"
be the subject of talk at the capitol
and at the white house. Representa-
tives Miller and Rowersock, of Kansas,
presented to the house resolutions OF
the Kansas legislature urging investi-
cation and control OF the Standard on
Company. The resolutions We're as
follows:
Resolved That our representatives
In congress be requested and our
senator's be directed to prepare. urge
and perfect such national legislation as
will control the Standard Oil Com
pany and protect the oil industry i'm
Kansas from destruction by the
greatest monopoly the world has ever
known
The Kansas delegation would like to
90 further than congress has gone i'm
adopting the Campbell resolution pro-
viding for an investigation of the
great oil trusts operations. but they
will yield to- the judgment of the
house leaders, which is that that mea-
sure will be sufficient to cope with
the trust at this time.
Most of the time at the cabinet
meeting was given to consideration of
the question of extending the lease of
oil lands belonging to the Usage In
dams in Oklahoma to Standard on
Company interests. Congress is now
considering the proposition of grant
ing Il renewal of a ten-year lease held
by the trust upon $4,000 acres of land.
Protest Against Land Lease.
The president and Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock have been rcceiv-
ing scores of kilograms protesting n
gainst the proposed renewal. One
came yesterday from the state senate
of Kansas asking that the lease be
discontinued. The messages tell of eX-
ceedingly harmful and oppressive con-
ditions prevailing in the Usage reser-
walton as a result of Standard Oils
manipulations.
Secretary Hitchcock admitted yester-
been made in the first place, but that
before ii was decided not to renew it
the question of investments made by
the company must be considered.
A delegation of Usage Indians i;
here working to defeat the proposition
They say that the royalties paid their
tribe for use Of the oil lands are insig-
nificant in comparison to the profits
pocketed by the Standard Oil interests
represented by the Indian Territory
Illuminating Oil Company
Situation is Explained.
William H. Leahy, a member of the
delegation, in explaining the situation
yesterday, said:
"rhe Indian Territory Illuminating
Oil Company has divided our reserva-
ton into three tiers or lots. containing
from 800 to LOO acres each. The
lots are sub leased to any company or
individual meeting the demands of the
parent company.
"'rhe latter makes a demand of any
where from 81 to $40 AN acre as bon
us and requires a suitcase tospay \
royalty of 16 % per cent. which en-
ables the parent company to pay to
the Indians the 10 per cent royalty
provided for in their blanket lease ana
leaves 6 2-3 per cent of the production
to go into their pockets in addition to
the bonus which the subleasees are re-
CURED to pay before they can COM
mence drilling.
"The production at the present time
is in the neighborhood of 100000 bar
rels of oil month. Fully nineteen
twentieths of the oil produced from the