Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-20
GARFIELD 1O CINE AID
Report of the Commissioner to
Figure in Prosecution of
Oil Trust
GETTING READY FOR FIGHT
District Attorney Morrison, at chica.
90, Will Go Over the Evidence Al
ready Taken and Help Plan the In,
quiry Before the Grand Jury at Chi
caso.
Chicago, July ao.-Thc report of

Chicago. July Gothic report OF
Commissioners of Corporations Garfield
on the transportation of petroleum and
the matter of secret tariffs which en-
abed the Standard Oil Company to es-
tablsh practical monopoly on the oil
business turnout the south will be add
ed to the evidence brought by Assist
ant Attorney Pagin from Cleveland
when the fight against the Oil trust
and affiliated railroads is launched in
Chicago Altho both District Attorney
Morrison and MIR. Pagin refused to dis
cuss the commissioners report, it is
admitted that its bearing on the local
siderable Importance is being attached
to it.
District Attorney Morrison said yes
terday he had not had time as yet to
go over the mass of evidence which the
government prosecutor brought from
Cleveland and chat he had received no
official notification that Chicago would
become the sea of war. That was the
understanding of Mr. Pagin, however,
when he left Cleveland, and the fact
that Attorney Morrison expects to
leave Chicago Sunday is construed to
mean that he will go to Washington
and st. Paul, where he will confer with
Special Counsel Frank b. kellogg.
Prosecutor Evades Publicity.
The assistant. attorney general has
continued TO be inaccessible since his
arrival in Chicago. He did not meet
Mr. Morrison yesterday and was not at
the Auditorium Annex during the day.
1t was reported that he was taking
vacation from worries after the siren
uous hearing at Cleveland.
1t was announced at the office of the
district attorney that Assistant District
Attorney Hanchett, who is now on his
vacation. will be one of the counsel for
the government in the rebate matter.
In discussing the local situation
Commissioner Garfield says: The Sc
cret rate from Whiting to East St.
Louis, ILL.,, was quite as advantageous
to the Standard Oil Company as the
Grand Junction rate. The rate charg
ed to the Standard. practically from
the opening of it's Whiting refinery in
1900, was cents. This rate was car
ried by the Chicago, Burlington
Quincy, the Chicago & Alton and the
G. Eastern Illinois. The 1lli-
nois Central and Wabash railroads
the lS-cent rate, and, need
less to say, gol no oil shipments
Shipments Are Enormous.
"Ihe shipments of the Standard Oil
10 East ST. Louis have been enormous,
the entire sol Invest hay
ing been supplied from Whiting thru
his gateway. The amount of oil car
RED on the Scent rate in 1904 was
more than 2O4,0O0,OO0 pounds, and the
difference between the published rate
and the actual rate charged amounted
% $23S,000.
1.-THE refineries of northern Ohio and
western Pennsylvania had to pay from
IL to PAN cents per 100 pounds to
reach East ST. Louis, or from IL to
1914 cents more than the Standard.
Had the rate on oil been adjusted on
he same relative basis as those on
most other commodities the difference
n favor of Whiting would have been
only from 5 to 10 cents.
Rate Creates Monopoly.
.By virtue of this great discrimlna-
ion. combined with various other less
determinations in the rates
,eyond East st. Louis, the Standard
Dill Company has been able to establish
IN almost complete monopoly turnout
he southwest and, as in the south, 1t
las there charged extortionate prices.
"Officers of two of the railroads
which made this Scent rate admitted !
rankly that it was secret. 1t is cur
ous fact. that the Chicago, Burlington
Z Quincy still later, in 1906, filed
,opy of one of its old secret tariffs
,aming the scent rate apparently with
he thought that this might in some
way justify its previous charges.