The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-11
RUSSIAN THRALLD0M
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That Is the position of the com mission as l understand it," replied Commissioner Clements.
 MT. Wilhoit said that sometimes. when the Standard oil Company was able to obtain information regarding shipments by Independents, 1t would load a passenger train with oil. beat the freight train to the consignee and then undersell them.
 Afraid of Big Business. The witness said that he sold only fifteen per cent. of tho oil sold in his territory. declaring that 1t Is danger ous" to sell more If he exceeded this percentage. he said the Standard oil Company would cut under his price and ha found it more profitable to do a small business at good prices than to attempt to do a larger business and have prices cut under him.
 He declared that the Frisco road gave a rate of $5 out of Springfield. Mo, to the Standard oil Company which placed heavy handicap on him and other independent dealers The rate given the Standard oil Company bv inc Frisco road out of Springfield. he said. means about two cents hun dred. while. he Is charged twenty cents a hundred. "I was told by man nam ed Duff," said the witness. who IS cherker for the Frisco road at spring field. that at night, after my barrels had been loaded. men entered the cars and took the names of the consignees, Attorney Miller asked the witness II he had not left the employment or the Standard OH Company under financial cloud. and the witness admitted that there had been a dispute about some money that had been stolen from ms office but denied that he had anything to do with It's disappearance. MT. Mil- Ter insisted upon the names or any per sons to whom the witness had paid money ,and he said he could remem- ber but one, which he gave.
 IT. c. Doran. of Freemont, Ohio. was the second witness. He said that the Standard oil Company of Ohio; Buck eye Pipe Company; Manhattan oil Com pany and the Republic oil Company. all subsidiary companies of the Standard oil Company. had used devious methods in obtaining from farmers the leases of oil lands. He declared that they led the farmers to believe that competition existed between them when. in fact there was none.
 Mfr. Doran was asked for the official record of the trust agreement Of the Standard oil Company. as contained in a case tried fin Ohio. and if was intro duced Into the record of the hearing.
 A pipe line map drawn by W. W. Tar bell, of Philadelphia. was introduced Ii was said that if dIscloses secret lines unknown to any but the ofleiais of the company. The map will be verified at the hearing In Philadelphia next week.
 E. r. Stpley, president of the Santa Fe road, Was then called to the stand He was asked concerning agreements or the railroad eaF-rany with mum Der of companies alleged to be subsl- QtaTX C0mnAniGQ nf Company.
 The first contract" said. President Ripley. was with man In Kansas City. to lay a pipe line on our right of way for $40 q mile. The next was for a line from Kansas City to Joliet and for this we received $50 a mile. We got $25o.oo0 for hauling pipe. I was very sorry to see the pipe line built. but as 1t had to be done, I did the best could out of it."
 ''Is there any contract between your road and the Standard or any of the the road with lubricating oil?' asked Commissioner Prouty.
 Il understand so. Our purchasing agent can tell you better"
 Mir. Ripley declared that two of the oil companies with which he made con tracts are affiliated with the Standard oil Company.
 Didn't you raise the rates on oil when the pipe line was put in?'' asked Attorney Monette.
 We did. but we carried oil before the pipe line 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 1t was.
 When the crude oil was piped," the rate was raised. but the rate on gas oil was lowered, 1t being shipped, isn't that so?"
 Yes" replied President Ripley.
 The last witness of the day was M. Maxon. formerly agent of the Standard oil Company. at various points in IlIi- nols. He said that the Standard oil Company, through subsidiary com panies. fought the independent dealers by reducing rates in their territory. and although the reductions were not made in the name of the Standard Com pany, 1t was in reality that concern which was making them. He said that the State oil inspectors did not. except in rare instances. inspect the barrels of oil and that many of them left their stencils in the hands of the Standard oil Company over night.
 The hearing will be continued tomor- row.