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letter head bore the inscription "26
Broadway" Mr. Hadley secured from
the witness the statement that it did
not bear the name of the Standard Oil
company. Mr.. Hadley handed the let
ter back to the witness. Counsel for
the Standard Oil company demanded
to see it, but Mr.. Hadley said he would
allow the counsel to see it if the wit
ness did not object The witness OBJ
jected and the commissioner ruled
that the letter was not in evidence and
counsel could not have it.
Mr.. Hadley offered to read the let
ter and did SO.
Mr.. Hardcastle said the Tinsley let
ter was in reply to copy of witness
resignation from the Republic Oil
company which had been sent to C. L.
Nichols
Mr.. Hadley asked if George D. Will
son, who appears as an incorporation
of the Republic Oil company, is at &c
Broadway and the witness said he
was.
Mr.. Hardcistle was then excused
and Mrs. Ida M. Butts was cross ex-
amined by the Standard Oil company's
counsel. Mr.. Frank Hagerman began
the questioning. He brought out that
for twelve or fifteen years Mr.. Rice
spent large part of the time in New
York. Mr.. Hagerman asked if Mr..
Rice was not in active opposition to
the Waters-Pierce Oil company and
Mrs. Butts said
His active efforts were to secure
railroad rates that would enable him
to compete with the Standard Oil COM
pany and it was construed as against
the Standary Oil company"
Counsel for the Standard Oil COM
pany asked to exclude the answer as
unresponsive, but the commissioner
allowed it to stand.
When asked where she got all her
information about the Ohio oil mat
tiers she said. she. got it from the rec
ords, from Attorney General Monett,
and from her stepfather, George NJ.
Rice. She was also present when in
terrogatories to John D. Rockefeller
were prepared by Assistant Attorney
General Kincaid of Ohio. Counsel
moved to strike out her previous evil
dence giving history of the Ohio
cases, but it was overruled
Mr.. Hagerman asked how she knew
the Waters-Pierce company was in the
original Standard Oil trust. Mrs.
Butts said it was included in the Ba-
con investigation in 1888. Mr.. Hager-
man moved that her testimony on that
point be excluded and also her previ-
GUS evidence giving the names of COM
panles In the original Standard Oil
trust. Mrs. Butts said Mr.. Pierce Of
the Waters-Pierce company admitted
to George NJ. Rice that his company
was in the trust agreement. Mr..
Hagermans motion was overruled.
Mrs. Butts said she knew the Stand
ard Oil company of Indiana was in the
trust agreement by the scrip which
was issued %
Mr.. Hagerman also took up other of
Mrs. Butts statements as to what
companies were in the Standard Oil
trust and having asked where she got
her information, moved to exclude
them, but the commissioner oyerruled
him in every instance. Mrs. Butts
said she saw the trust agreement in
printed copy of the evidence taken nv
the Bacon committee. Mrs. Butts said
she got her evidence that the Console
dated Tank Line company disappeared
from the fact that it's name did not An
pear in the scrip. She knew the
Standard Oil company took it's Mace
In competition with her fathers hnsi-
ness and 1t disappeared from the tori
ritory where the Standard OIL com.
pany afterward appeared. 81. :
Much of the evidence she had given
she explained, was based mon the
knowledge she had obtained from the
Standard Oil trust certificates. assiens
ments Of legal title and scrip Of tha
companies in the trust which sha now
holds and by the exchanges a. ono
form of these papers for another firm
wnlcn was made by the trust She
no!ed many OF the changes In her step
~. Iatners dealings in competition, with
me companies. The fChesssE orley
company, she said, had the panaroIJ
reputation ofjhaving the taniie n nj i
company behind. them and they tried
,to', ,drlve us on the face of the earth"
re-directi examina alton Mrs. Butts
81 said sne had knowledge Of many OF
Ine companies IN the Standard on .
IIust from actual competition with
mem. sne came to- know OF these
iacts from association with Mr.. Rice
=: =. Rogers was then called. Nj.
- Hadley repeated his previous cues. i
ton: Explain what you meant by
SAYING you did not learn that there \
were any committees" - Z.
I, q me - answer explains itself" said
DID you mean that there are no
committees ct 90 Broadway that had
snylling g 90 With the Standard OH
company q Indiana ~ N
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