Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-07
ROGERS REFUSES
TO GIVE REPLIES
HADLEY ELECTS LITTLE M
FORMATION
Question as to Whether Standard OIL
Magnate Must Testify to Be
Taken to the Supreme
Court
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. ct developed
from the questions asked by Attorney
General Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri
Of Henry II. Rogers, vice president and
director of the Standard oil company
OF New Jersey, that one of Mr.. Had
leys chief purposes in conducting an
examination of officers of that company
in this city is to find out whether that
company owns controlling interest Ill
the Standard Oil company Of Indiana,
the Waters-Pierce Oil company of Mis-
souri, and the Republic Oil company.
This, Mr.. Hadley said tonight, he re-
CARDS as "a step in the direction of ex-
Guiding the three latter companies from
doing business in Missouri.
TO most of the important questions
asked by Mr.. Hadley bearing directly
on the question of stock ownership, Mr..
Rogers declined to give any answer
ION the advice of his counsel and Mr..
IIadley requested Commissioner Fred
erick II. Sanborn to certify the ques-
tion and Mr.. Rogers refusal to the su-
preme court of this state for n deter
nnation as to whether or not Mr..
Rogers must answer them or be ad-
judged in contempt.
Mr.. Rogers declined to reply to ques-
tions as to whether he controls any
stock in the Waters-Pierce OIL COM
rany, whether NJ. Van Vuren of New
York holds a controlling interest in
that company for the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey; whether the
New Jersey company controls the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, or
the WaterS-Pierce company and
whether two thirds of the dividends of
the Waters-Pierce Oil company are not
paid to H. Nj. Tilford, who, Mr.. Rogers
said, has an office at 26 Broadway, this
city.
Will Go to Supreme Court
Mr. Hadley declared tonight that he
would take all these questions to the
supreme court of New York state to
secure an order for Mr.. Rogers to show
cause why he shall not answer them.
Mr. Rogers did say, however, that he
never heard of an agreement between
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey and the Waters-Pierce company
to divide the trade of Missouri. and that
he did not believe it was ever made.
Mr.. Hadley said afterward that he
had an injunction against such a di-
souri, to show from the office of the
oil companies that they are owned by
the same party. This is what he is
aiming to show in the New York hear
ing
Mr.. Rogers today declined to answer
the question whether he had a transac-
tion with H. Clay Pierce i'm 1904 by
which Mr.. Rogers secured all or part
of the Waters-P Pierce Oil company's
stock for the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, or for the Indiana COM
pany. Mr.. Rogers was still on the
stand when the hearing was adjourned
until Monday.
The first witness today was Mrs. Ida
NJ. Butts of Marietta. o. When the
examination of Mrs. Butts was begun
the typewritist began his work, but
Frank Hagerman. for the STANDARD Oil
company, demanded that the operator
repeat each question and answer after
he had written it.
Mr. Hadley agreed TO this.
Mrs. Butts said she was a step
daughter of the late George Rice of
Marietta and had been employed in his