The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-05

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territory has ben IN eonteol n the standard
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New Yagh, New Haven and Hartford fcsd
and n The Hyaton and Mains road, On MI but
. few divisions, 10 psofate v . IN loin IN
through fatea on oil shipp~d from vest
~ the il,fdssn River, and Nv means N tha
adjustment ~ published Tstea.
Tho STANDARD Ia entitled to tho advantage
NJ NJ water shipping points IN rrashins
New England. hut that sivantage was
greatly and unfairly increased whom the
failraade, nv refusing 10 pr'rate, virtually
Kept independent rshnera from using all
rad rou,aa. The rrfu@altc prora,s increased
the rail rates from tho West from 4 to 10
cents per iOo pounds. Theae rail roads do
prorite on all other commodities; their
refusal 20 do ~ In h cass n oil amOunte vi
to Imposing a substantial tax on oil con
sumers in the region they cover, and Ia also
q heavy discrimination against thu smaller
refners.
,. The Standard oil Company has bsen
able TO absolutely control for many yearsthe
sale Of oil in the northeastern part II New
York and In a portion n Vermont by means
q secret rates from its refineries at olean
and Rochester.
RATES FROM LEA TO ROCHESTER,.
Tho P%ennsylvan q Railroad has given the
Standard q rate of Q cents q barrel from
olean. n. Y, to Rochester, while the in
dependent feineries situated in territory
adjacent TO Olean were given q rate OF
81 cents n barrel. BY means Of this 0 cent
rate, in combination with a rate from,
Rochester to Norwood, N. Y, a virtually
secret and very low rats from Norwood
n. v, TO Burlington. and secret local rates
therefrom. the Standard has been able TO
supply central and northern Vermont with
oil at a rate Of from is TO q cents per hun
dred pounds. whereas no independent re-
finer could reach that territory from west
ern Pennsylvania save by a rate vary ing
from 80 to so cents per hundred pounds.
The saving TO the Standard during 1904
by the secret rate from Olean TO Rochester
alone was sl15 900. This and other less i'm
portant rates from Olean were unknown
TO the independent r%efners, and were not
published, on the ground that they were
wholly State rates; yet in fact they were
used for oil consigned to points beyond
the State boundary Of New York. Further
more, all the shipments from Olean on these
secret rates were blind Billed. O., the rates
were not shown on the waybills.
ABSOLUTE CONTROL SOUTH OF THE OHIO.
?. The Standard Oil Company has main
tanned absolute control OF almost the whole
section Of the country south Of the Ohio
River and east Of the Mississippi by means
OF secret rates and open Determinations In
rates from Whiting. Ind.
For example, the published tariff rate
from Whiting, Ind, the great Western
refinery Of the Standard, to Birmingham.
Ala, was a cents per hundred pounds.
For at least ten years the Standard. by
means Of a secret combination OF rates by
way of Grand Junction, Tenn, over lines Of
the Chicago and Eastern illinois, the Illinois
Central and the Southern Railway, has
shipped oil to Birmingham for 29H cents.
The Toledo competitor, no further distant,
had to pay ~ cents.
A great area in the South has been reached
by this same secret combination at rates
averaging one-fourth less than the pub
lished rates, The total saving to the Stand
ard on these rates has been about $4,000
per year. o.
Again. the open rate from Whiting to
Eva nsville, Ind. has been for many years
II cents. The Standard has for about ten
years shipped oil to Evansville for local
use and for many points ~beyondinthe South
east At so-oal!ed state rates Of o cents and
81 cents. The freight paid by the Standard
in this case has been about $4,000 per year
less than the open rate.
The rates to this same territory from
the Independent refining points at Toledo
and Cleveland were from 3 to ~ cents per
hundred pounds, or from a to ~ cents a
gallon higher than the rate received by the
Standa I'd.
The records Of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company show plainly
that these Grand Junction and Evansville
rates were intended to be secret, were given
for the sole benefit Of the Standard and
we're handled as secret rates with the know
edge Of Standard officials.
CONTROL OF We TERRITORY.
W LUG OtdiltdIu oH Noiiphhy ia
at least ten years shipped oil from Whiting
to East st. Louis, H., at a rate Of 0 or az
cents on three OF the five railroads running
between those places, while the only duly
published rate on all roads has been IS cents
during all that period, The saving to the
Standard amounted to about $4,000 in
1904.
For many years East st. Louis has been
the gateway for oil shipments by the Stand
ard into the Southwest. The rates from the
independent refining points OF Ohio to East
st. Louis have been about II cents higher
than the rate from Whiting. whereas on
other commodities Of similar grade these
points pay only about s cents more than
Whiting.
Whiting Is located In Indiana, about two
miles from the Illinois line, East st. Louis
Is in Illinois, just across the river from st.
Louis. The secret low rates were given by
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chi
cago and Alton and Chicago and Eastern I'LL
nois railroads. They we're not published,
the ground that thoy we're State rates.
In dealing with these rates, one OF the roads
the Chicago and Alton-falsely waybilled
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