New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-20
AFTER STANDARD OIL.
An INQUIRY ORDERED.
commerce Commission Takes Up
Charges from Kansas.

washington Feb. 1.-THE Interstate Com
-,.roe Commission has ordered an investigation
:. the rates and practices Of the railroad car
.srs engaged in transporting oil from Kansas
end Indian Territory TO interstate destinations
.be hearing 10 be held al Kansas City March
:, 1906 The investigation is based on a petit
,,on Of the Kansas oil Producers Association.
,,,bracing a number of charges. The follow
avg carriers are required 10 appear for investiga-
non:
archison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Com
,srv: Missouri Pacific Railway Company; MIS-
sso,,r4 Kansas and Texas Railway Company 81
Souis and San Francisco Railroad Company
Tbicsco Rock Island and Pacific Railway COM
- T-nion Pacific Railroad Company; Kansas
civ Southern Railway Company ana 81 LOUIS
Southwestern Railway Company.
AT ne-sons interested also have leave TO ap-
near and be heard
The charges fled by the Kansas on Pro-
s,ce-s' Association follows
--.s- me rates charged by railroad common
..--ia-s On petroleum and its products from
r~oducinr sections in the State OF Kansas
- Indian Territory 10 destinations in Mis-
sorri Iowa, Nebraska. Illinois, Arkansas COL
N-sSo Oklahoma Indian Territory, and other
trrerstate destinations, are unreasonable UNJUST
and unduly preJuolclal. , -
'-bst PRODUCERS and shippers Of petroleum ana
So PRODUCTS thereof in the State Of Kansas,
o-her than the Standard OIL Company ana the
To-af-fe OF and Gas Company and those con-
rrolled by or affiliated with said companies or
si+ber IF them are by reason Of said unjust, IN
reasonable and uudUly preJudlclal rates pracu-
caliy confined in the marketing OF such tranc
70 the state OF Kansas
That the state OF Kansas, by act Of legislat-
NE established in the year 1905 a schedule Of
distance rates for the transportation by railroad
Of crude oil and the products thereof between
points IN that State, which Is reasonable ana
1ust has resulted in no loss Of revenue 10 the
carriers and has operated TO create markets Tor
the sale OF such traffic within that State; and
that such rates for extreme distances in kansas
are both prOpOrtionately and in the aggregate
FAR below the grossly excessive rates charged
by said carriers 70 points located in other states.
or IN Territories. near the boundary between
such States Territories and the State or
Kansas.
That the freight rates maintained by said car
rie7s upon petroleum and the products thereof,
shipped as interstate traffic from points II Kan
sas and from points in Indian Territory, and
the various changes made therein since the dis
cove-y and development OF the oil fields in Kan
and Indian Territory, operate 10 restrict and
prevent trar1c between numerous points, and
show that SAID carriers. as the result OF some
understanding, arrangement or agreement be-
tween them, or some said carriers. and the
Prairie Oil ana Gas Company or the Standard
OIL Company or companies or persons affiliated
with said companies, or either Of them. or for
other reasons, have been and are causing and
fostering monopoly in the control handling
and shipment OF such traffic in the said Prairie
pany, or companies. or persons affiliated with
said companies or either Of them TO the wrong
u, undue and unlawful prejudice and disad-
vantage ot compliments, members and other
competitors Of said oil companies.
That the said carriers also wrongfullv and IN
justly olscrlnlnated against conplainants mem
0ers ana other producers and shippers of oil
rom points IN the State OF Kansas and Indian
Territory 70 interstate destinations in favor Of
SAID Prairie OF and Gas Company or the stand
arc Oh Comp any, and persons or companies con-
Rolled by said companies or affiliated there
with, IN the provision OF tank cars, box cars
storage Facilities att various points Of destina-
non, and IN the return OF tank cars and empty
barrels 10 points OF production.
representative Campbell. Of Kansas. intro
duoed joint resolution to-day instructing the
Interstate Commerce Commission TO make an
examination into railway determinations and
moncpolies and report 10 Congress It provides
especially that il shall be determined whether
The railways own or control oil or other products
which they haul and whether there is any con-
tract or conspiracy in restraint OF trade 10 mon
opolze the trade in crude petroleum. refined oil
Or by-producrs. In case combinations are dis
covered The Interstate Commerce Commission is
70 suggest remedies Mr.. Campbell said con-
pernirg his resolution:
L if ny purpose 10 find out whether the
slancsr1 Oh Company controls railways and
nXes rates I had supposed the investigation
under Nj. Garfield, Of the Department Of Com
nefte and Labor, extended TO the relation Of
The Standard oil Company 10 railroads, but
upon rnCtlg that such was not the case, Iefelt
lAst ms was q proper subject for inquiry.
Many - The rates on Kansas oil unfair
InaJ they are supposed 10 be dictated by the
STANDARD Oil Company, which is represented in
which charges OF discrimination are made.