The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-11
RIPLEY ON STAND.
President OF Santa Fe Railroad
Testifies.
Tells of Relations Between Com
pany and Standard.
ADMITS CHANGE RATES
Road Doesn't Haul Oil Since
Pipe Line Started.
Charge That st. Louis & San
Francisco Discriminates.
ADMITS CHANGE RATES

Chicago, May lit was charged
late yesterday in the hearing by the
interstate commerce commission that
the St. Louis & san Francisco road
gives q rate Of two cents a hundred
to the Standard Oil company and
charges competitors of that corpora
ton ten times as much for the same
haul.
Mr.. Doran, a witness, was asked for
the official record of the trust agree
ment of the Standard Oil company as
contained in a case tried in Ohio and
it was introduced into the record of
the hearing.
A pipe line map drawn by W. ".
Tarbell, of Philadelphia, was intro
duced. It was said that it discloses
secret lines unknown to any except
the officials OF the company. The map
will be verified at the hearing in Phila-
delphia next week.
E. P. Ripley, presid ut of the sAtchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe railway. was
then called to the stand. He was
asked concerning agreements of the
railroad company with number OF
companies alleged to be subsidiary
com panies of the Standard OIL COM
pany.
The first contract" said President
Ripley was with a man in Kansas
City to lay a pipeline on our right OF
way for $40 a mile. The next was
for line from Kansas City to joliet,
and for this we received $50 mile. W e
got Il million dollars for hauling the
pipe I was very sorry to see the pipe
line built. but as 1t had to be Done
did the best I could out of it.
rs there any contract between your
road and the Standard or any OF the
subsidiary companies for furnishing the
road with lubricating Oil2'' asked Com
I understand so. Our purchasing
agent can tell you better.
Mr.. Ripley declared that two OF the
oil companies with which he made
contracts are affiliated with the Stand
ard Oil company
Didn't you raise the rate in Kansas
on oil when the pipeline was put IN
asked Attorney Monnett.
I'VE did. but we carried oil before
the pipeline was put in, and we have
carried none since"
He was asked If the rate on gas oil
was not lowered and that on crude Oil
raised, and answered that It was.
Nv hen the crude oil was piped the
rate vas raised. but the rate on. gas oil
was lowered, it being shipped; Ism t
that SOP
YES replied President Ripley.
The last witness of the day was NJ
Naxon, formerly agent of the Stand
ard Oil company at various places in
Illinois He said that the Standard Oil
company, through subsidiary com
pantes fought the Independent dealers
by reducing rates in their territory.
and although the reductions were not
made in the name of the Standard Oil
company, It was in reality that con-
Germ which was making them. He
said that the state oil inspectors did
not except in rare instances, inspect
barrels of oil and that many of them
left their stencils in the hands of the
| Standard oil company over night.
Maxon Hits Back.
Nearly every railway running south.
north and west from Chicago was rep
resented today before the interstate
commerce commission when the investi-
cation into the relations of the Stand
ard OIL company with the railroads was
resumed.
Attorney c. c. LaForge, representing
the Standard Oil company of Kentucky,
| open the proceedings by a cross exarni-
nation of haywood Maxon. of Illinois,
who was the last witness at the hear
| ing yesterday.
| The attorney read number of let
/ ters by MaxoD. 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:
II mean to make all the trouble for
1 the company can. Your attorney,
! ElOuys alldCkSQ my interests D6IOT9
| the legislature at Springfield, Ill, and
will get even before am through
Maxon admitted being the writer of
the letters.
rs it not true that you have about
1 500 letters and documents in your pos
session belonging to the Standard Oil
company of Kentucky asked Mr..
Laforge.
Il have a large number of letters
and papers addressed to officers of the
company and letters written by them
to their agents, the witness replied.
How did you get them r.
I'm the same way that for years
got information for the Standard Oil
company"
Attorney Laforge then read letter
written by Maxon to C. NJ. Pratt, ar
officer of the Standard Oil company In
New York. in which he said that he
had obtained 500 letters from one OF
the company's agents in Ohio and had
allowed Commissioner Garfield to copy
them for use in prosecuting the com
pany.
In answer to questions Of the attor-
ney regarding passes, Maxon said thar
he had passes on nearly every road In
his territory and used them in travel
ing on the company's business. He OBJ
tanned the passes. he said, from Treas
urer Holmes and other officials Of the
Standard OIL company.