Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-09
To Show Why He Does
Not Answer HadIey's
Questions.
AGAIN ON THE STAND
Tom Lawson Appealed to for
Any Information He
May Have.

New York, Jan. 9.-Henry Wolman,
acting as counsel for Attorney General
Hadley, obtained an order today re-
quiring II. H. Rogers TO appear in the
supreme court tomorrow morning to
show cause why he should not be re-
quired to answer questions in the TAX
ing of testimony here before Commits
sioner Sanborn for use in the case of
Missouri against the Standard Oil
company and two other companies do
ing business in Missouri.
Rogers on Again.
New York. Jan. 9.-Henry II. Rog-
ers. vice president of the Standard Oil
company. of New Jersey, was the first
witness at today's session of the hear
ing in connection with the state of
Missouri's suit against the alleged oil
trust Rogers said he didn't know how
long ne had been connected with the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, and
did not think il worth while TO answer
such questions
4 NeritabIe Sphinx.
He declined to answer numerous
questions asked by Attorney General
Hadley in regard to his connection
with the companies alleged TO have
been consolidated or allied with the
Standard Oil company
same with Policeman.
Eugene Carney was the next witness.
He said he is a police officer ito look
after peddlers and beggars" and 10
start elevators at the entrance of 90
ly all questions put to him -'on advice
of his counsel Carney was excused
and Howard Page. who said he was
connected with the foreign department
of the Standard Oil, was called. He
was questioned at length, but declined
to answer almost every question by
direction of the Standard Oil company.
Appeals to Lawson.
New York. Jan. 9.-Attorney General
Hadley today sent the following tele-
gram TO Thomas w. Lawson:
IF you can give any information as
to the relations between the Standard
Oil company of Indiana and the Re
public Oil company and Waters-Pierce
Oil company. / urgently request you to
come and testify"
Yesterdays Proceedings.
New York. Jan. 9.-Henry II. Rogers,
calm, suave, smiling. and as inscrut-
able as ever, yesterday baffied all the
efforts of Attorney General Hadley of
Missouri to discover the connection be-
tween the Standard Oil company and
the Waters-Pierce and Republic Oil
companies.
Mr.. Rogers was unTulfled, but the
Missouri attorney general several times
nearly lost patience. The Standard
Oil mans memory was almost as
vague as it was on Saturday, and he
parrfed questions and evaded direct
answers and shifted issues until the
closing moments of the days hearing.
Then he was asked the crucial ques-
tion of the whole case-and he refused
fatty to answer. even in the face of
Commissioner Sanborn's peremptory
order to do so.
Crucial Question Unanswered.
The question upon which the whole
Missouri case hangs was:
1T is charged in this case that the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, the
Waters-Pierce Oil company. and the
Republic Oil company are in a confed-
Grafton and agreement in violation of
the trust laws of Missouri Do you not
know that the Standard Oil company
of New York owns and controls either
through Itself or other parties a major
ity of the stock in all these compa-
nies?" IL was nearly 5 o'clock in the
afternoon when Mr.. Rogers took the
witness stand.
HnrdcastIr Gives Evidence.
II. ID. HardcastIe. who was formerly
employed in the Albany agency of the
Standard Oil company. was HadIey's
chief witness. He testified TO instances
when he was transferred from the
Standard Oil companys employ TO that
of the Republic Oil company at Cleve-
land. and the Atlantic Refining COM
pany at Philadelphia.
These transfers. he said. were
made by officers or employees of the
Standard Oil company, and one of
them told me / must not be known in
Cleveland as having been employed by
the Standard Oil company"
The witness had some letters, he |
said, from the Standard. on which he |
was induced to surrender to- Walter |
jennings OF the Standard Oil com
pany, in the hope of getting better