The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
ROCKEFELLER ANSWERS TRUE
COUNSEL SEEMS TO WISH TO
CORNER DIR. GLADDEN.

sbovtnE That Rocke1ener Testined Fully
TouohinE His Connection with the
south improvement Company When
Ne was Asked About II on the stand.
Starr J. Murphy, Of personal counsel to
John D. Rockefeller, issued yesterday
a statement in reply to DR.. Washington
GLADDEN.. who had accused Mr.. Rockefeller
OF having committed perjury and who
reiterated the accusation whom Mr.. Murphy
called him TO account for It ten days ago
Mr.. Murphy now says
Nv attention has Just been called TO .
despatch from Columbus, Ohio, dated Aprl
%. IN which DR.. GLADDEN. replies TO my former
statenneut In answer 10 his accusation that
Mr., Rockefeller testified falsely with regard
10 his connection With the South Improve
rlsnt Company. InAsmuch a. Dr. uladoen
now quotes the testimony, showing thai the
company concerning which Mr. hockeieNeI
was being Intercepted was not as ne
originally stated the South improvement
Company. but the Southern lmpro vement
Company there remains only the question:
whether these were the same corporation;
Az DR.. GLADDEN. says that be has s9coeeoeo
In finding the act 10 incorporatetheS South
Improvement Company, II Is unnecessary
10 ne FER to the page where that is printed!
He SAW that he has searched the RECORDS
and cannot find any such corporation as ne
South Improvement Company, and asserts,
mo such company was incorporated on the
day he names, May, @, IS71.' II Dr.. GLADDEN.
viii take the laws Of Pennsylvania for the
wear 1872 he will find In the index, page
ilss, the following:
sImpro vement Companies, south, act 70
Incorporate, 1878; repealed, us.
IN 6e will turn to page 1878 he will find
Il entitled "Appendi1-i6n, and on that
page. set forth in full, the charter OF the
South Improvement Company, approved
the 9Th day Of May, ISL. II he win then
tiirn TO page us he win find an act entitled
AN act TO repeal the charter Of the South
Improvement Company, and reading as
foIIows. sBe Il enacted that the
act entitled an act to incorporate the south
Improvement Company, approved the
9th day Of May, Ammo Domini, one thousand
same Is hereby repealed. DR.; Gladdens
Chief authority, Miss Tarbell, In Der history,
Vol 1, pare -, says that the fennsylvanla
Legislature repealed the charter OF the
ne S reneaiibF act, a. d the fact that It gives
the name Of the corporation correctly,
and refers 20 the date OF its passage, shows
that there is no excuse Tor confusing TINS
with any other corporation. 30 much Tor
DIR. 0ladden's competence as an inyesti-
Sator, There is no foundation whatever
for his statement that the charter Of the
Southern Improvement Company was pur-
chased by Mr.. Rockefeller and his friends.
DIT. Giadden's former. article, 70 WHICH
replied. amounted 90 the charge that Mr..
Rookefelier bad committed perjury In
faleely testifying that he was not oon-
neoted with the South Improvements Com
many. / have shown, and DIT. 0laddone
renlv admits Il, that he was not asked about
the South improvement Company, bit
about a totally different corporation. He
now eeels 10 shift the issue by saying that
Nj. Rockefeller was bound 20 ansWer, not
otbsr question which be might have mag
med thS SEamtnW had tntsndad - ssE