Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-27
HE FEARS RIDICULE
John D. Rockefeller Wishes
 to Testify Privately.
OPEN COURT ONLY WAY, SAYS HADLEY
John D. Archbold, Appearing For Oil Magnate, Made . Conditional OGer of His Testimony-Ob-
 jects to Cartoonfsts.

O6er of His Testimony-Ob- l jects to Cartoonists.
 NEW YORK, March 27. At the Standard oil hearing here John D. Archbold, the trusts vice president, testified that John D. Rockefeller had authorized him to make an offer that he (Rockefeller) would appear before At torney General Hadley of Missouri and testify provided private hearing could be arranged
 Mir. Archbeld said the reasons Rock efeller would not appear in public were that his health was precarious and that he would not subject himself to the notoriety and cartoons that would follow.
 MT. Rockefeller, continued Mir. Arch bold, is in Lakewood, but comes fre- quently to New York.
 Now, Mr. Attorney General" said Mir. Archbold, MT. Rockefeller knows nothing whatever about this case, but he is willing to meet you quietly and answer any questions you may ask.
 "Mr Rockefeller knows am making this offer for him. On account of his health he feels that he cannot come here He dislikes the notoriety and cartooning that would attend his ap- pearance in public, and, as said, the excitement might prove dangerous to his health. His reasons for not appear ing here are purely physical, and I re- peat that if he can be examined in pri- vate he will attend. But he knows nothing about this case"
 "Mr. Rockefeller does not direct af- fairs, then?" "No; there is no master mind there. We have a number of e1- perts representing various interests"
 There Is only one way in which we will examine witnesses" snapped Mir. Hadley.
 Mir. Archbold next to Henry H. Rog- CTS is probably the best posted man in the Standard Oil company concerning the notifications of the business of the corporation.
 MT. Archbold testified concerning the official relations between the Rockefel- Ter concern and the Waters-Pierce Oil company of Missouri, the Republic Oil comnsiy of New York and the Stand ard oil company of Indiana. At the last hearing H. H. Rogers, also vice president of the Rockefeller company, admitted that the last named company practically owned the other three com panies.
 "Who is the managing officer of your company was asked. There is no such person. John D. Rockefeller is the president, but he has not for ten years taken an active interest in the com pany. He is the nominal head, but for five years or so has not attended the meetings"
 "whyl Because of i'll health" "Yes, that and advancing age"
 Mir. Archbold then gave statistics of oil production. He said there were about 345. 900 barrels of petroleum pro duced daily, of which the Standard oil interests produced about 45.O00 barrels.
 Are you familiar with the product of oil in this country?' T am.'
 "What is it?" "The daily production of crude oil in the United States is about s50,O00 gallons daily, and the Standard oil. produces about one-sev- enth."
 And about the refined productT 'The Standard oil probably sells and markets about 70 per cent of it, and I want to add that wherever there is a Standard oil refinery in the United States there is a competition refinery in that section. There is a great deal of competition in the oil business. The competition, of course. is greatest in the big oil region of Pennsylvania"
 The witness then told of the Standard Oil interests in the new fields of Kan sas and insisted that the Standard Oil did not control the oil situation there.
 At this point Mir. Archbold jumped to his feet and said: 'I object to those artists who are sketchlng me. It Is in- decent-positively indecent-and I ask protection"
 Commissioner Sanborn asked the photographers and pencil artists to de- sist, and they did desist for a few min utes.