The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-10-07
:CAMPnGN SCANDALS
SCARE REPUBLICANS
Young Garfield Will Report
NQovernment Lack Of Power
to Get Trusts.
Insurance Scandal Also Gives
Machine Operators Of
:. Party Much Worry.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 5.-Comnas-
sioner Gardeld's report on tho oper-
ations Of the Standard OIL in the Kan
sas oil fields will be cuckoo" 1t
Will be virtually REPETITION Of the now
famous beef trust report.
= It will allege lack Of powers under
the law to properly probe the trust"
It will set forth lot Of oefogging
data as to what is done In the Russian
oil fields, will be very complete IN Its
detailing Of the way Rothschilds ana
Shell & co. apportion Europe and Asia
between themselves and the other OIL
combines of Europe, and it will be Voc
fully lacking in duly authenticated
facts as to what Standard OH is doing
here, Of it's railroad agreements with
the northern and southern roads and
the preferential rates it has secured for
itself against the producers OF Kan
sas and the southwest country.
When Garfield was appointed to IN
vestigate the beef trust, he delegated
the work to subordinates. He had
to do it, he alleged, as he was given
other work to look after by the pres1-
dent There was a string to him IN
that investigation. There Is a string
to him In this. Subordinates are doing
the work for him in the matter OF
the Standard Oil because he was ap-
pointed member of the Keep IN
vestigation committee to investigate
the government departments, just a
little while after he was ordered to
buckle on his trust-flghting arnaor and
get into the arena after this industrial
Goliath His excuse was that he had
to have subordinates do the work In the
former case. It will be his plea in the
latter case.
Reports Are Similar.
The beef trust cuckoo" report will
beget the Standard OIL cuckoo" re-
port.
Already Garfield, it is said, Is at
work on a preliminary report OF what
his men have found. The report Is
to go to congress when it meets.
The report will not show how much
the Standard Oil company dropped into
Cortelyou's hat to prevent adverse leg
islation through congress. 1t will not
show that the contribution was made
with the express understanding that
the preferntial rates given the COM
pany over the southern and western,
railroads in violation Of the interstate
commerce law should not be questioned.
not that the unlawful condition was
used as a club over the railroads by
the Republican national campaign
managers to make the trusts and ra1l-
roads agile and willing to be very
generous in their campaign contri-
buttons to the Republican campaign
committee.
1t Is hoped by the leaders Of the G.
O. P. that congress will accept the
preliminary report, pigeon-hole 1t and
not ask for any further investigation
of the Standard OIL, lest there be drag
ged to light a political situation beside
which the New York Life Insurance
scandal will pale into insignificance.
How Much Was Given7
The query In Washington today Is:
If the New York Life paid $3.50, 900,
how much did the Standard OIL put
up? Who got it? And what was done
with It?
The New York Life scandal has the
G. O. P. frightened, and the news to-
day that Commissioner Garfield finds
that he has no power to delve into the
secrets Of the oil combine is accepted
here as one Of the evidences Of this
fear. Garfield will assert In his re-
port that the trouble lies in the or
ganic law. He will allege that the
law exempts the railroads from sub
mitting to his official probe. He will
allege that the Standard Oil company
and its pipe lines in Kansas and else
where are not common carriers. He
will assert that his bureau-the bureau
Of corporations-has no power to do
what it was ordered to do by the
resolution Of congress.
These two classes Of corporations he
will tell congress are beyond his power
to probe. Professor f.. Dana Durand,
who collated all the facts in the beef
trust investigation. is In charge Of the
probe in the Standard OIL case. He
has sent to Europe Francis Walker OF
Boston to look into the petroleum ques-
ton as it Is. He will investigate Shell
& Co., Of England, the Rothschilds
the Deutsche bank crowd Of Germany
and the Noble Brothers, who, with this
Rothschilds, control the Russian oil
output and sale. Walker and his as
sistants will bring back a wealth OF
data, and congress will get in the pre-
lirninary report" The report is like
ly to give President Roosevelt a chance
to prod congress to make law fitting
to the case. Then will come weari-
some debate, with the tsandard Oh
lobby working overtime Just beyond
the swinging baize doors.
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