The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-29
FAVOR THE { STANDARD OIL Charges of Gulf Refining
 Company. RAILROADS ARE INVOLVED Discriminate in Favor of
 Rockefeller. Allegations Filed Before Interstate Commerce Commission and Com
 pany Asks for Investiga-
 ton of its Changes.
RAILROADS ARE INVOLVED

washington. June 2s.--In a petition | filed today with the Interstate Com- | merce Commission by the Gulf Refining 1 Company of Port Arthur. Texas, against | the Illinois Central, Louisville and | Nashville, Cincinnati, New Orleans and | Texas Pacific Alabama Great Southern and New Orleans and Northeastern | Railroad companies, the defendant car- | riers are charged with having entered l into combination with the Standard Oil l Company by which that company is 1 given a monopoly of business through
 discriminating rates that are prohib- l itive to the products of the plaintiff company.
 Beaumont. Texas, June 2S.-The Gulf Refining Company, which Is the com-
 plainant in a petition filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington today alleging rate dis | crimination on the part of a group Of | Southern railways in favor of the | Standard Oil Company is a Texas cor | poration and one of the largest inde- | pendent oil refining concerns in the | United States and recognized as the principal competitor of the Standard l Oily Company in this country. | 1t is a branch of the J. M. Guffey | Petroleum Company of Pittsburg, with
 Capitalization of $1,000,000. It's re- finery is located at Port Arthur. Texas. | from which pipe lines radiate to all l portions of the Texas oil region. reach- ing every field. Its capacity is 10000 | barrels a day.
 The Gulf Refining Company main | tains close business relations with the
 Shell oil and Transport Company of London, the principal competitor of the l Standard oil Company in Europe. Upon the result of the action taken today 1t is believed hinges the con-
 struction of a pipe lLAe from Kansas | City to the Gulf.
 It Is definitely known that the inter
 ests behind the present move have been l considering such a project which means
 one of the largest fights with which
 the Standard oil Company has ever | contended.
 The petition was filed by James H. | Beal, an attorney of Pittsburg. Itlsets 1 forth that the defendants are acting in concert to prevent the plaintiff from | shipping and marketing its oils in com petition with similar oils marketed by | other refneries. The Gulf Refining Company produces all of its oils in
 Texas and Louisiana, while the Stand ard oil Company produces north of the Ohio River. The complainant alleges that it's market is confined to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville and territory tributary to each of those GiIIGS HC AdbOc DJ thc railroads which are declared by the
 oomplainants to be prohibitive are as follows:
 New Orleans to Chicago, Al cents per
 100 pounds; New Orleans to St. Louis,
 35 cents; New Orleans to Cincinnati,
 39, and New Orleans to Louisville, 35
 cents. It is alleged that the Standard
 oi Company is given rates for oil
 south bound between the same points
 as follows:
 Chicago to New Orleans, 23 cents;
 St. Louis to New Orleans, 35 cents; Cin-
 cinnati to New Orleans, 221- cents,
 and Louisville to New Orleans, IS cents.
 According to the petition the total
 production of crude oil In Texas and Louisiana as the development of four years now amounts to about 30,000,000
 barrels year, In comparison with a total annual production in Kansas, Ohio. Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania fields of only 54,000,- 900 barrels.
 Further Discrimination.
 The petroleum transported by the de- fendants south bound is carried almost entirely In tank cars, which cars can carry no product other than petroleum oils and petitioner argues that unless these cars can be loaded in the South with such oils for shipments north bound, they must and do return empty Cotton seed oil and petroleum oils are placed by the railroads in the same class in the official classification and the petition complains that discrimina- tions in rates are made by the de- fendant railroads as follows:
 Between New Orleans and Chica0o northbound petroleum fl cents; cotton seed oil, 25 cents; New Orleans and st Louis. petroleum. 35 cents, cotton seed oil, 19 cents: New Orleans and CIncin- natl, petroleum, 39 cents, cotton seed oil. 21 cents; between New Orleans and Louisville, petroleum, 35 cents, cotton seed oil. 19 cents.
 Among other charges the petition sets forth the following:
 The great part if not practically all of the south bound shipments of pe troleum oils are made by companies owned, controlled and operated hy the Standard oil Company and with re- nneries Of that company, all of them situated north of the Ohio River; that the said rates also established and maintained give the Standard oil Com pany an undue and unreasonable pref- | erence and advantage over the com plainant and other companies produc- ing and refining petroleum in the | states of Texas and Louisiana, and the | said rates have been and are SO es- tablished and maintained by the saId attendants. not fin good faith in the conduct of the business of the said railroads. but solely for the purpose Of preventing the complainant from petroleum oils in the cities and territory described in which fine said Standard oil Company now has practically complete monopoly of the said business. '-e
 The high rate on petroleum from St Louis to New Orleans Is declared bv ths petitioner to be due to the fact that the Standard oil Company does e HEsh l St. Louis. rum
 The petition asks that the defend- ants be required to answer tbaso 'harges and after hearing and inyestie gation. 10 cease the practices com Dlained of