The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-23
natorY against the compes1tors of the

l Standard Oil company, both ln open and nublished tariffs and by and through secret and unpublished rates, both interstate and intrastate, and by rebates, concessions, and preferences granted to the Standard Oil company and it's subsidiary corporations.
 The bill goes into the details or many of these rates, pnd shows a sys- I tematic discrimination, substantially all over the United States, so that rates from Standard shipping points are much lower, fer the same distance proportionately and per ton per mile, than from shipping points Of inde- pendent competing concerns. These differences in most instances amount to more than a reasonable profit upon the oil.
 l Some Sample Determinations.
 The regular published rate from Whiting, Ind, to Evansville, Ind, through Illinois, for instance, was II cents per hundred pounds. Most or the oil shipped by the Standard com- pany was shipped at SA cents and 6 cents per hundred pounds. The | Standard had a rate from Whiting, Ind, to Grand Junction, Tenn, Of 13 cents per hundred pounds, and large quantities of oil were distributed from | Grand Junction all over this southern 1 territory on secret rates which never were published, as required by law, or filed with the interstate commerce commission.
 The petition alleges that for about ten years prior to 1905 secret and un- published rates were made from | Whiting, Ind, to East St. Louis, of 6, ] GA and G1k cents on the various rail- roads, which oil was destined to St. Louis and to a large territory south and southwest of those points, while the regular published rate was IS cents per hundred pounds.
 How They Control Railroads. | It is alleged that the individual de. fendants and other individuals associa. ted with them and interested with them in the Standard oil trust have acquired large interests in the stocks of the principal railroads of the United States and have caused them selves to be elected or have caused other persons acting in their interest | to be elected as members of the boards of directors of such railroads. By req son of such ownership and representa- tion on the boards of directors of such railroads the individual defend ants have influenced the railroads to establish and maintain the discrimina- tory rates.
 Among the railroads in which the defendants are interested and upon the boards of directors of which they have representation ttogether with the names of directors) are the fol | lowing:
 William Rockefeller - Central New
 England; Chicago. Milwaukee & St.
 Paul; Delaware, Lackawanna and 1 Western; Lake Shore and Michigan
 Southern; Michigan Central; New
 York Central; New York, Chicago
 and St. Louis; New York, New
 Haven and Hartford New York,
 Ontario and Western; New York
 and Ottawa; Pittsburg and Lake Erie; Rutland.
 Henry H. Rogers Fe, Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul; Union | Pacific.
 Charles M. Pratt-Boston and Maine,
 Evansville and Terre Haute; Long Island.
 Henry M. FlagIer-Florida East Coast. John Q. Rockefeller, Jr.-Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; Missouri Pacific.
 William c. Rockefeller-Union Pacific. H. Clay Pierce-Kansas City Southern,
 St. Louis and San Francisco.
 c. w. Harkness-Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
 F. T. Gates-Missouri Pacific, Wiscon- sin Central.
 The petition then recites the Stand ard trusts monopoly of the sale of lubricating oils to railroads, it's unfair methods of competition in the cutting of local prices, the formation of bogus independent companies. the payment ion of territory.
 Tells of Stupendous Profits. It Is alleged that by reason of its monopoly the Standard oil company has made enormous and unreasonable profits on the actual value of it's prop. ! erty; that the trustees valuation of all the property and stocks placed in their hands in 1882 was $55, TO ,69S24. 1 The additional property purchased OF acquired by the issue of trust certif. cates was $13.3lO 100, so that the total value of all property controlled by the Standard oil company of New Jersey. except such as may have been pur. chased from earnings, Is 9,020, ,79824, | according to their own valuation. Upon this capital the Standard has from 1882 to 1895, inclusive. paid $512.940,0S4,50 of dividends, and has