The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-14
STANDARD OIL GO.
DEfIES MISSOURI
Trust Magnates Refuse to Answer
Hadley, Who Will Go to
High Court.

attorney, has in IN effect es notifed Herbert
|S. Hadley, attorney general of Mis-.
souri,. who was in Kansas City today,
that it will give him 90 more informa-
ton in his suit to GUST the Standard
and its allied companies from the state
of Missouri than it is compelled to give.
Mr.. Hadley, in discussing the Stand
ard $ attitude, said:
s A week ago today, when the testi-
mony Of II. Clay Pierce was to have
been taken before Commissioner R. A.
ney for the Standard Oil company,
stated to me that there would be no
further resistance on the part Of wit
nesses already subpenaed in New York
IN answering the questions they had
previously refused to answer. I then
suggestedTto Mr.. Eddy that if he would
produce i; N. and Y. H; Tilfcrd and
M. Van Buren, before Commissioner
Sanborn in New York, on March "a,
file an application in the supreme court
to bring them to Missouri.
TO the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Eddy promised to give an an
swer to this suggestion as soon as he
could consult his clients in New York.
He has assured me that he did not feel
authorized to make this arrangement.
Consequently If service on them is not
secured at the time the taking Of depo-
sitions is resumed in New York, will
ask the supreme court for an order to
compel their appearance in Missouri
"What about John D. Rockefeller''
Mr.. Hadley was asked. "'TWas there
any discussion pertaining to jhims"
S'The question Of subpenaing John
D. Rockefeller did not enter into the
u I, M,.f M hoy ya
| been and are still endeavoring to Sc
cure service, but there are other wit
nesses whose presence l am more anx-
ious~ to secure
Cockrell Is Angered. .
| Francis M. Cockrell Of the Interstate
commerce commission severely repr1-
manded G.. w. Mayer, Kansas City
manager of the Standard Oil company,
legged methods Of railroads and the
Standard Oil company in, discriminate
ing against independent oil men here
abouts. The lawyers for the commits
sion and the lawyers for the independ-
! ent oil producers had been trying hard
to get from Mayer an admission that
there was any connection between the
Line company, the Republic Oil COM
| pdHy, Gu0 w Vii VIII pony
and other companies. To all questions
Mr.. Mayer answered.:
IT do not know
At the close of his testimony Mr..
Cockrell asked him:
s'Tell this commission, are the Re-
public Oil company and the Waters
Pierce Oil company part Of the Stand
ard Oil company"
~ do not know, 81" ..,,e "a. d
"What is your best impression
4 SHIl have Snone.'
f:;s. Disgust Is Evident. H..
/ :" Don It you feel and know i'm your
heart that they are all part and par
eel Of the same com1panys'
II do not know W.
! "Don't you feel in your heart that
it is so9' T.
-l'I don't know sir. -,
I Then the veteran ex-senator slapped
the desk with his fist and said Sc
verely:
made by Standard Oil people to con
ceal this fact, when every man, wo
man and child knows it is so. Now
i everybody wants the truth told here
and why don It you tell it9 Every TUX
!. ought to stand upon its own bottom
: and you folks ought not to dodge thus
). question further. -
Pipe Line and Railroad.
81 Half dozen witnesses were still t
be examined when the interstate com
merce commission resumed its hearin,
: here today j. r. Koontz, genera
: freight agent Of the Atchison, Topek,
& Santa Fe railway, the first witness
!, was asked by Mr.. Marchland, attorne,
for the commissions:
care the pipe lines of the Standar'
Oil company upon the right of-way o
the Santa Fe railway9" +
x Yes, sir; they are for a distanc
east Of Sugar Greek (Kansas City,, t
point somewhere in Illinois, wher
they branch off.
:, HWest Of Sugar Creek the pipe lin
is upon the right of-way Of the south
ern Kansas division of the Santa Fe 70
considerable distance
! How did the Standard Oil compan
get this right-of waya' LA , ii.
, Il 1Ido not know. =, ~
Mr.. kOOntz was questioned abOutath
: meeting Of traffic managers Of differen
railroads in st. Louis in June, 1904, q
: which thes~oil rate east from 1l1inoi
2 was raised from 10 cents to II cents
! hundred pounds. He said that he wa
: at the meeting. He did not know VIII
s called it. y -
MTVE THO TR6ppED