The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-10
ROGERS MUST
 SHOW CAUSE The Oil Magnate Haled
 to Court. PROCEEDINGS FOR CONTEMPT Effort to Compel the Answering
 of Questions. Thomas W. Lawson Invited By NAtter- ney-GeneraI Haaiey to Come to New York and Appear Be-
 fore Commission.
 

New York, Jan. 9.-The question whether Henry II. Rogers can be com pelled to tell Attorney General Herbert s. Hadley of Missouri whether the Standard oil Company of New Jersey owns or controls three oil companies which are selling oil in Missouri as separate companies. will be placed be- fore the Supreme Court of New York State tomorrow.
 All the important questions which MT. Rogers has declined to answer by advice of counsel in the last three days of the hearing were presented to the Supreme Court today by counsel acting in behalf of Attorney Hadley and the court was asked to order Mir Rogers to show cause why he should not answer them.
 The court Issued the order and 1t was served on William V. Rowe. counsel for Mir Rogers. while the hearing was still in progress late today. Mir. Hadiey said after consultation with the coun- sel that he understood that he would have to be represented by counsel in this argument. but that he hopes to get in a few words before the court.
 The questions are in diversity of form, but in substance they all are:
 The Questions at Issue.
 Does the Standard oil Company of
 
 any other person or corporation. own or control a majority of the stock of the Waters.Pierce oil Company of Mis- souri, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the Republic oil Company of New York?'
 No matter in what form the question has been put. Mir. Rogers has declined to answer 1t. The commissioner be- fore whom the evidence Is being taken l e vzifhnKff f0 Rnr1naf n af but the Supreme Court possesses the authority to compel Mfr. Rogers 10 be punished for rten1pt of court if he declines tos answer after being ordered to do so by that court.
 Mir. Hadley wants this information 10 show that the three alleged subsidiary or cunfsderated companies are rnonopo- liking the oil tfade of Missouri in com mon and to induce the Missouri courts to order them busted from that state.
 An interesting feature of the hearing today was an invitation sent by Mir |. Hadley to Thomas w Lawson of Bos- ton. requesting him to come to New York and testify If he can give any in- formation as to the three companies Mir. Hadiey is trying to drive out of | Missouri. When the hearing adjourned | tonight Mir. Lawson's reply had not | been received.
 MT. Rogers again declined while on | the stand today to disclose the stock ownership of the three companies and was severely admonished by Mir. Had ley to treat the heaering seriously and not as funny
 May Adjourn the Hearing. The hearing will probably be ad- | journed temporarily tomorrow morning | to permit attendance upon the court | hearing on the order to Mir Rogers. Y, The subpoena server who has been trying for several days to summon H. Clay Pieerce to testify before the Com ! missioner in this case notified Mir. Had ley tonight that he has been unable to get Mir. Pierce, who he said had ] sailed away on a steam yacht. Mir. Pierce is chairman of the Board of Di- rectors of the Waters-Pierce oil Com pany of Missouri. and father of the ! president of that company.
 The subpoena served said that he had [ pursued Mir. Pierce and his valet through a suite of rooms In the hotel occupied by MT. Pierce, but that the i oil man had locked himself in his cham Der. The server then desisted. ! John D. Archibald. Vice President and 1 Director of the Standard oil Company, , and William c. Rockefeller. nephew of 1 John D. Rockefeller. were present at the hearing today. They have been subponaed as witnesses, but were not l called to testify today
 1 Attorney General Hadley said tonight l that he expected to close the hearing l tomorrow if the hearing in court does not prevent.
 From 26 Broadway. Howard Page, who said he Is con nected with the foreign department of the Standard Oil Company. was called. He was questioned as to whether cer- tain persons had offices at 26 Broad way. but declined 10 answer almost every question by the direction of the tStandard oil Companys attorney. He said he never knew Of two oil com panies selling in the same territory. /. He refused to say whether he was