The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-12
OIL INQUIRY
 AT CHICAGO Many Railroads Repre- scented at Hearing.
THE TESTIMONY OF MIR. MAxoN
Former Employe of Standard Who
 Became fingered.
said To Have fin His Possession 1900 Letters Which He Permitted Com- missioner of Corporations Gar
 field to Copy.

Chicago, May 11.--Nearly every, raii- road running south, north and west from Chicago was represented today before the interstate commerce com mission when the investigation into the relations of the Standard oil Com pany with the railroads was resumed.
 Attorney c. c. Ciaford, representing the Standard oil Company of Kentucky, opened the proceedings by cross ex- animation of Haywood Maxon, Of llli- nois, who was the last witness at the opening hearing yesterday
 The attorney read number Of let ters written by Maxon in which he threatened to make trouble for the Standard oil Company because he had been refused a years leave Of absence One of the letters read:
 T mean to make all the trouble for the company I can. Your attorney. Mir Eddy, attacked my interests be- fore the legislature at Springfield, Ili.. and will get even before l am through"
 Maxon admitted being the writer of the letters.
 'Is 1t not true that you have about 1.500 letters and documents in your possession belonging to the Standard oil Company of Kentucky asked Mi. Laforge.
 T have a large number of letters and papers addressed to officers of
 
 the company and letters written by their agents replied the witness.
 How did you get themT'
 Tn the same way that for years l got information from the Standard oil Company"
 Copied by Garfield.
 Attorney Leforge then read letter written by Maxon to C. T. Pratt. an officer of the Standard oil Company, in New York in which he said he had obtained 500 letters from one of the company's agents in Ohio and had al- lowed Commissioner Garfield to copy them for use In prosecuting the com pany.
 In answer to questions from the at torney regarding passes. Maxon said he had passes on nearly every road in his territory and used them in travelling on the company,s business He ob- tained the passes. he said. from Treas urer Holmes and other officials of the Standard oil Company.
 A. J. Davidson. President of the St. Louis and San Francisco Road, fol- lowed Mir. Maxon. He said that there are no pipe lines on the right of way of his company for any considerable distance. and that the road has no con- tract to install a pipe line.
 The question of furnishing oil to the Frisco road was then taken up and President Davidson said that in the West the oil is furnished by the Wa ters-Pieree oil Company and in the East by the Galena oil Company. Both companies are said to he affiliated with the Standard oil Company.
 Attorney Monett. who Is aiding the government in the investigation. said that under the contracts with these companies the railroad paid sixty to ninety per cent. more than If the oil was purchased In the open market. but that it Is sold on a mileage basis so that the records will not show the exact amount paid.
 H. O. Hukill, purchasing agent of the Pennsylvania lines. west of Pitts burg, was then called to the stand. He said that his company purchased oil from the Galena oil Company and had done so for ten years. It ceased buying oil in the open market because the Galena company guaranteed a saw ing of ten per cent. to the railroad.
 J. F. Tucker. chairman of the Cen tral Freight Traffic Association. was the next witness. About sixty rail- roads are reported in his organization
 Attorney Monett endeavored to learn something from the witness regarding tn fixing of oil rates. but the witness said that he merely expressed the consensus of the opinion of the raIl- roads at the meetings of the associa- ton.
 Explained hy Mir. Prouty.
 You can get the consensus of tho opinion of the roads on a rate to be fixed issue, an information circular. the rate Is put out and then you forget all about 1t. That is about the way isn't it?' asked Commissioner Prouty.
 Well. not exactly" replied MT Tucker.
 Mir. Tucker was succeeded on the stand by H ] Cohn of St Louis, who was connected with the Waters-Pierce Oil Company for fifteen years. He de- clared that certain territories in Illi- nois were divided between the Waters Pierce oil Company and the Standard Oil Company for the sale of oil. The accounts of the former company are, he said checked up by auditors of the Standard oil Company. The witness declared that In one published tariff of the Missouri Pacific road reduction of 1-2c per hundred on oil is pro- vided for if the pipe line passed under the Mississippi river The Waters Pierce oil Company up to three years ago. he said. owned two pipe lines pasisng under the river,
 The Iron Mountain road. the witness said. had acted as an agent In securing business for the Standard oil Company from all small ToWnS lI s'utiitiH N1lS- souri, receiving q compensation for All work done. Agents of the road, he said. acted also as agents for the oil company. For their services they wore paid q commission of one cent gai. lon.
 The witness said that he as an agent of the Standard oil Company had ap. nointed new railroad agents in Mis-. souri where vacancies occurred. One man the witness declared. had re. signed his position when he lost the oil agency. saving that the position did not pay enough without the oil bus mess
 Time for Meeting Changed.
 Cincinnati. O.. May 1.-The time for holding the biennial conventions of the Commercial Photographers Union Of