The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-10
COURT MAY COMPEL OIL
 TRUST MAN TO ANSWER
ASKED TO ORDER 1T. 1T. R0GERS TO SHoW WHY HE SHOULD
 NOT.

wee President of the Standard OfI
 Company Has StubbornIy Declined to
 Say Whether the Standard Controls
 Three Other Companies Operating in
 the State of Missouri--state,s Obtect
 to Show That Oil Trade is Mono.,o-
 hzed Would Dust Trust.
 New York, Jan. 9.-The question whether Henry H. Rogers can ha compelled to tell Attorney Ganara1 Herbert s. Hadley of Missouri whatbar the Standard Oil company of New Jer- sey owns or controls three oil co,n- panles which are selling oil in Mfssour, as separate companies will be nlanaa petore the supreme court of New Ynrir state tomorrow. All the irnnortar4 questions which Mir. Rogers has declsn- ca to answer by advice of counsel tn the last three days of the hearing in this city were presented to the suprerna court to-day by counsel acting in Ae- half of Attorney General Hadlev and the court was asked to order Mr Rnp- CTS to show cause why he should not answer them The court issued the or- der and it was served on William U. Rowe, counsel for Mr. Rogers, while the hearing was still in progress late to-day.
 The questions are in a diversity If forms but in substance they all are
 Does the Standard oil company of New Jersey either through itself or any other person or corporation. own. hold or control a majority of the stoclr of the Waters-Pierce Go. of Mss- souri, the Standard oil company of h. diana and the Republic oil company of New York?" No matter in what form The question has been put MT Rogers has declined to answer 1t. The commits sioner before whom the evidence is taA- en IS without power to compel an an- sWer, but the supreme court possesses the authority to order MT. Rogers eo he punished for contempt of court if he declines to answer after being ordered to do so by that court.
 MT. Hadley wants this information fo show that the three alleged subsidiary or oonfederated companies are monopo- lizing the oil trade in Missouri in com bination and to induce the Missouri courts to order them busted from than | state.
 | An interesting feature of the hearitlg to-day was an invitation sent sys -tir- Alr-' Hadley to Thomas w. Lawson of Bos ton, requesting him to come to New | York and testify if he can give any in- formation as to the three questions MT Hadley Is trying to drive out of Mis- souri. When the hearing adjourned to- night MT. Lawson's reply had not been received.
 Mr. Rogers again declined on the stand to-day to disclose the stock own ership of the three companies and was severely admonished by MT. Hadley to treat the hearing seriously and not as 1 funny"
 | The subpoena server who has been trying for several days to summon II. Clay Pierce to testify before the con- missioner in this case notified Mir Had ley tonight that he has been unable to get MT. Pierce who he said, has sailed away on steam yacht Mir. Pierce is chairman of the board of directors of the Waters-Pierce Oil company of Mis- Scuri and father of the president of that company The subpoena server said that he had pursued MT. Pierce and his valet through a suite of rooms in the hotel occupied by MT. Pierce, but that the oil man had locked himself in his chamber. The server then desisted.
 John D. Archibold, vice president and director ,f the Standard oil company. and William G. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller, were present at the hearing to-day They have been subpoenaed as witnesses and will proh- ably be called tomorrow.
 Attorney General Hadley said to- night that he expected ito close the hearing tomorrow if the hearing in court does not prevent.
 EDWARD B. BRADLEY STRICKEN