The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01

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 5 New York Special. March 3i--At- tcrney General Hadley of Missouri be came something of a popular hero in the metropolis. before he left, and if he got back to his home State with his diges- ton unimpaired. it was not the fault of New Workers who were eager to give dinners in his honor. Courage. modesty and tenacity of purpose are the qualities that marked Mr. Hadley's work here. and his success in making the Standard oil Company 'Ehow him" has gained general applause When Mir. Hadley first came out Of the West to tackle the oil Octopus in it's den. New York. with its characteristic atfi- tude of looking at every public char acter from West of Pittsburg as a joke. prepared for a good laugh Tax ing their cue from this. the officers of the company tried their best to throw ridicule on the investigation from the start Invoking an all but forgotten rule of procedure. they compelled MT Hadfey to dispense with a stenoEra- pher and take the record of the pro ceedings in longhand. Most of the chief witnesses desired mysteriously vanished. and H. H. Rogers. whom the subpoena servers caught treated the hearings as a sort of opera bouffe with NAu4So&A dS Cll4cA C9l1tUld1 ADTc0NtE. Mir. Hadley was opposed at every stFp by band of the most skillful corpor- ation lawyers in New York Let them have their fun" said the young man from Missouri. and kept plugging away And at last the big corporation surrendered and admitted the owner ship of three big companies in Mis- souri, Mir. Hadley now goes back to his State with an excellent foundation F,- Aa Err arIe ~Tns-. rxE~ The. antitrust law.
 An interesting side light on fhe se- crecy with which the business of the Standard oil Company is conducted. is shown by the testimony of John D. ArchboId, vice-president of the eompa- ny. that John D. Rockefeller has moi personally taken any interest in the conduct of the company's business for ten years For years. declared -Mr- Archbold. the nominal head Of the Oil Trust has scarcely visited his ofice in the big Standard oil building at es Broadway. Yet, by the news sharks who haunt the Wall street districts. the richest man in the world" WAS not missed. As matter of fact. so eln- sive were his movements that srea when he attended business every day. scarcely any chance observer ever saw the big oil magnate. In the morning he slipped out of his carriage and was swallowed up in the most irnpenetra- ble building in the world. until he stole out again in the evening. It has always been impossible for stranger to penetrate even to the upper floor where John D Rockefeller and William Rockefeller make their headquarters. A sharp contrast to the mysterious se- clusion can be observed at the ofnce of J. P. Morgan and Company. two blocks away. where MT. Morgan erdi- narily sits at his desk beside huge plate glass window on the first floor, smoking his black cigars and digging through mountain of papers. in plain view of the hurrying Wall street crowds Only a single husky-leoking doorman guards his private sanctum from the curious ones who stroll in from the outer world
 New York. which from the first has gone on record for conservativafism on a matter so important to the general welfare a tinkering with the railroad rate problem. has watched with great interest recent changes in the attitude of many advocates of stringent rate regulation. Among those advocates Of legislation who have recently gone OF record against the Hepburn bill are PrOreSSOr William L Ripley or liar ward. who. in an article in The Guar terly Journal of Economies. character izes radical regulation as injudicious; and President c S. Mellen of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Rail road, who says, No rate rule or reg ulation should be established by any tribunal without suspension of same pending an appeal to the courts. and if the judges are likely to be overbur- dened, and there is delay. they should be helped out by increasing their num- ber." This plain speaking from a man who has been a constant adviser of President Roosevelt on the rate ques- tion. should attract attention. No less plainspoken was District Attorney Je- rome when. in a recent speech touch- ing on certain tendencies to haste in the lower House of Congress he said. Take the Hepburn bill Seven men voted against il and not a man able to understand it But the yenows said we must have something doing, and so your popular branch said we must do something. whether we under stand it or not"
 Local yachtmen have been delighted with the reports that Sir Thomas Lip ton will come to this country during the summer 10 try to lift the kings cup, the yachting trophy which King Edward gave to the New York Yacht Club last fall The race will be held off Newport in August. Sir Thomas