Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28
PRESIDENT WILL
USE HIS FINDINGS
is Mr.. Roosevelt's Wish That the
leport be Completed Soon in Order
hat it May be One of the Trump
cards to Force Passage of Rate
Sill.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 26. - Com
missioner Garfield is working night
and day trying to get his report on
6the Investigation of the Standard Oil
company in shape for presentation to-
congress. He is working under direct
order of the President, who will use
the findings Of the commissioner of
corporations regarding the Rockefeller
monopoly as his trump card in forcing
the senate to pass rate bill in accord
ance with the administration policy.
The bearing the Standard Oil report
will have on the railroad question will
be of highly sensational character,
as it will be made to show that the
greatest monopoly in the history of
this country is the direct result of con-
tinued and fragrant rebating by prac-
tfcally every railroad company in the
United States
Commissioner Garfield has gather
ed a mass of evidence by which he
expects to establish the fact that eth
er willingly o" under pressure every
railroad has Disseminated in it's
freight rates in favor of the Standard
Oil, and by most stupendous system
of preferences helped Rockefeller to
crush cut all competition until he now
controls 80 per cent of the petroleum
trade in the United States and 95 per
cent of all foreign business.
The Garfield report is expected to
be in the Presidents hands early in
February but its presentation to con-
gress will depend entirely on the pro.
gress the rate bill has made in the
senate by that time.
Public Sentiment Sought.
If the upner house of congress re
fuses to follow the radical policy OF
he administration in regard to rail
road legislation, the alleged iniqui
ties of tho railroads and the STANDARD
Oil company will he made public al
the. psychological I.oment when the
effect viii in the opinion of the ad
ministratinn be most powerful in ere
eting sentiment against the railroads
In this way the administration eI
poets to have pressure brought to bea,
on the senator's who refuse to follow
he Presidents lead in granting to thu
lterstate commerce commission tn,
over to fix rates.
The recent general order by .Attor
sy General Moody to all United
states district attorneys to proceed il
rebate cases was also one of the step
in the campaign of arousing publi
sentiment on the rate question. Mucl
of the evidence in these cases ha
been in hand for long time, but wa
kept in reserve, and the bringing o
the indictments at Philadelphia, Kar
sas City, and Chicago against railroa
officials was done mainly for the pun
pose Of agitation Other importan
prosecutions are being held in abey
ance by Attorney General Moody, an
it is generally believed here, that tn
question of going ahead or droppin
them depends entirely on the attitud
certain leading railroad officials tax
on the Presidents pet issue.
Information to Be Withheld.
Practically the same plan that wa
adopted in making the report to col
gress in the Chicago packers invest
CATION will be followed in making th
Standard Oil report.
Such Information as the governme1
expects to use in court will be wit