The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-22

through secret and unpublished rates, both interstate and intrastate, and by rebates, concessions, and preferences granted to the Standard Oil company and it's subsidiary corporations.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 of many of these rates, and shows sys. tematic discrimination, substantially all over the United States, so that rates from Standard shipping points are much lower, for 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.
 Some Sample Determinations.
 The regular published rate from through Illinois, for instance, was Il cents per hundred pounds. Most of the oil shipped by the Standard con- 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 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 %r published rates were made from Whiting, Ind, to East St. Louis, of 6, 6A and 612 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 represents 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 ftogether with the names of directors) are the fol lowing:
 William Rockefeller - Central New
 England; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Delaware, Lackawanna and
 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-Santa Fe, Chicago,
 Milwaukee ahd St. Paul; Union
 Pacific
 Charles M. Pratt-Boston and Maine,
 Evansville and Terre Haute; Long
 Island.
 Henry M. FIasIer-Florida East Coast. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-Delaware,
 Lackawanna and Western; Missouri
 Pacific.
 William G. RockefeIIer-Union Pacific. H. Clay Pieree-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 of rebates on oil prices, and the diyis- ion of territory.
 Tells of Stupendous Profits.
 It is alleged that by reason of it's 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, ,710,6 ,69S24 The additional property purchased or acquired by the issue of trust certifi- cates was $13,310,100, 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 $69. .020, ,79S.24. according to their own valuation.