The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16

from Whiting, Ind, to Evansville, Ind, through Illinois, was II cents per hum dred pounds. Most of the oil shipped by the Standard Company was shipped at Ia cents and 6 cents per hundred pounds. From the independent ship ping points the rates were made as follows: From Pittsburg to Cincinnati, IA cents; to Louisville. 19 cents; and from all other Western Pennsylvania points ssubstantiaf1y the same. From Findlay and Toledo to Cincinnati, 10 cents; to Louisville, 14 1-2 cents. From Cleveland to Cincinnati. 10 1-2 cents: to Louisville, 15 cents. While the Standard paid only 6 or 1-4 cents to Evansville. The Independents, in | addition to these rates, were obliged to pay the local rates from these Ohio I River crossings into all this Southern territory, which were much more than the Stapdard's rates. The Standard Company had a rate from Whiting, Ind. l to Grand Junction, Tenn, of 13 cents per hundred pounds, and large quanti. ties of oil were distributed from Grand Junction, all over this Southern terri tory on secret rates, which were never published.
 The petition alleges that for about ten years prior to- 1905, secret and un- published gates were made from Whit. - and 6 1-2 cents on the various rall- roads, while the regular published rate was IS cents uer hundred pounds. And, in the cases of all the railroads except one. the oil was billed at 1S cents, but settled for at 6, 1-2, or 1-4 cents, while the independent shippers from Toledo, Cleveland, Findlay. and Vest ern Pennsylvania points were obliged to pay. the full tariff rates.
 
 That for more than ten myears the Pennsyieania Railroad Company estab- lished and had fin force a secret and unpublished rate from olean to Roch- ester. N. r., of 56 cents per ton, while the independents from Struthers, oil City, Clarendon, Titusville and Warren paid from $2.30 to $2.s1 "a ton--more than. four times the Stan dard's rate. The Standard rate from Olean to Buffalo was 10 cents per bar rel, while the rate from Bradford, Clarendon, oil City, Housewife, Struthers, eTitusville, and Warren (in- dependent points) was S2 cents per barrel.
 The New York Central road also made a secret rate of cents per hun dred pounds from Rochester to Nor wood, N. F.. in connection with the Rutland Railroad, to Vermont.
 And that the Rutland Railroad Com pany. in connection with the Central Vermont Railroad Company, made rates from Norwood to Vermont points, to wit, to Burlington, $23 per car, or about 3.54 cents per hundred pounds; to Rutland, $2S per car, or 4.22 cents per hundred pounds: and to Bellows Falls, $3O per car, or 5.09 cents per hundred pounds: while the regular published rate available to the com petitors of the Standard oil Company, was 33 cents per hundred pounds, more than six times the average rate to the Standard oil Company.
 That the said Standard oil Company also had secret rates to Burlington and a large number of places in Yer mont, about one-half the rate given to the competitors of the Standard Oil Company.
 That during said time. the New England Railroads, principally the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the Boston and Maine, the Rutland Railroad. and the Central Vermont Railroad, refused and neg lected to prorate, but charged their full local rates, although it was cus- tomary to prorate on other products. That by refusing to prorate, they dis criminated against the independent refiners on an average of or cents per hundred pounds
 The Standard refinery is at Parkers- burg, W. Va. The independent, at Marietta, immediately across the river. The rates from these two places-sub- stantially the same distances, and over the same lines of railroad-are from to 13 cents a hundred pounds less to the Standard oii Company than to it's competitors
 That throughout the States of Illi- nois. Indiana. Michigan and Ohio, the