The Washington times., 1905-02-21
Punching Standard Oil
With Many Sharp Sticks

MADISON. Wis, Feb 21-Foliowing
the example of the Kansas Legislature,
the Wisconsin Legislature will soon
take up the subject of the Standard Oil
Company.
Two measures will be pressed, one a
joint resolution for an Investigation of
the methods of that corporation in
Wisconsin and the other a bin remod-
eled as a substitute for the measure
Senator MeGilliveray has introduced,
which will be stringent antitrust legis-
lation
The Usage Leases.
TOPEKA, Kan. Feb. 21.-Both
branches of the Legislature has passed
a resolution calling upon the Presi-
dent. the Secretary of the Interior. and
Congress 10 annul leases made TO the
Standard Oil Company eight years ago
by the Usage Indian tribe on 100000
acres of land in the richest oil region
OF the West
The resolution recites that the
Standard OIL Company has been de-
clared by public opinion 70 be an evil.
and, by its tyraInicaI practices and UNI
fair competition, the enemy of COM
nseree." The resolution cites that the
lease was secured by fraud by a man
the Standard Oil Company.
The Kansas Oil Producers, Association
today announced that ex-Attorney Gen
eraI Monet of Ohio, will be III charge
of its fight before Commissioner Garfield
and his assistants. Mr. Monet will ar
rive here tomorrow. He foughe the
Standard in Ohio and then the Stand
ards political influence defeated him for
q denomination.
Does Bryan Own Shares?
A man who has just returned from
Washington is authority for the state
naent that the Foster oil leases in tbs
Usage nation are partly owned by ". j
Bryan. of Lincoln. Neb.:: W. J. Stone
United States Senator from Missouri
Thomas TaggaFt, Indiana, chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee, ant
Bcies Penrose United States Senator
from Pennsylvania.
The man who authorized the statement
has been III Washington on business fol
The oil producers association.
He says that he had access to tfe
lease while in Washington and that hi
saw the names of the distinguished
politicians attached and that he knows
what he Is talking about.
The Foster leases are supposed TO bs
controlled by the Standard Oil Company
To Fiat+ eeax
"a effort i.
I'D State!
sls77 = scranton and force
down the prices there. The pipe linz
companyts line passes just north of thi:
city. ana there is g tapping and pumping
station and storage tanks at Parsons
When these were erected the STANDARD
Oils price for kerosene here was /
cents; now it is I.
The pine line company desires to pur
chase the Mallory Oil Conpany's OF
plant IL Scranton, but is meeting witt
opposition and is now ready to erect {
station Tor its own use and pipe the OF
there from Parsons.
as Common Carriers.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 2f:LRepresenta
tive Lyons of Kansas City has agreed Il
Introduce in the Missouri Legislature
two of the Kansas anti-Standard OF
measures, declaring pipe lines common
carriers ana nxing a maximum rate O.
freight
The Standard pipe line 70 whiting
Ind, crosses Missouri. The passage of I
ma xiI1Um rate bill would permit the dis
trlDutlon of fuel oil in Miss 9uri and pre-
vent the exorbftant charge of carrying
oil short distance between the end o
Kansas pipe lines and Kansas City In.
the bill
representative Lyons left for Jefferson
CITY last night with the oil bills Sen
Stor clark viii introduce the bills in tn:
Senate. -