Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-09
STILL AVOIDS ANSWERING
HADLEYS QUESTIONS
Attorney General Of Missouri Obtains
but Little Satisfaotion-Says He
Would Be Glad to Have Mr..
Lawson Testify
BY Associated Press.

rector of the Standard Oil company Of
Indiana, which Attorney General Her
bert S. Hadley is trying to GUST from
the state of Missouri, was on the wit
ness stand today on quo warranto pro-
ceedings brought by Mr.. Hadley. Mr.
Hadley took up with him only two
points: Whether the STANDARD Oil
company of Indiana has an office i'll
the building at 26 Broadway, this city,
and whether the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey owns or controls ma
jority of the stock of the Indiana COM
pany, the Waters-Pierce Oil company
of Missouri and the Republic Oil com.
pany of New York.
Mr.. Rogers said that he did not know
that the Indiana company has offices
at 26 Broadway; that he supposed its
affairs are conducted in Indiana and
that he imagined that James A. Mof-
fett, president of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, has an office az
26 Broadway, but that he (Mr Rogcrs)
was never in it.
Mr.. Rogers declined to answer the
question whether the STANDARD Oil
company of New Jersey Owls the
stocks of the companies which Mr..
Hadley alleges have combined to stitie
competition in Missouri. Mr.. Hadley
pressed the question with much in
sistence and demanded answers with
out evasions
Mr.. Rogers was testifying when the
hearing adjourned today.
After the adjournment, Attorney
General Hadley's attention was called
to some published advice to him con-
corning the proceedings from Thomas
w. Lawson of Boston, and he was
asked:
DO you want Mr.. Lawson to come
down here and testify in this case"
Certainly. If Mr.. Lawson knows
anything I should like to have him
come down." said Mr.. Hadley.
Mrs. Butts First Witness
Mrs. Ida. NJ Butts, daughter of
the late George L. Rice of Marietta,
O.. was the first witness.
Before Interrogation of witnesses be-
gan Mr.. Hadley informed the commits
sicner that Wade Hampton. auditor cf
the STANDARD Oil company, one of the
Witnesses summoned, had not re-
sponded.
Mr.. Hadley read certificate of six
shares in the original Standard Oil
trust issued by the board of trustees
of that trust in 1892 to George NJ. Rice.
tt was signed by John d. Rockefeller,
Henry NJ. F'lsgler and William r.
W9rdwel 1T was indorsed as having
been issued in compliance With an order
cf the Surreme court of New York,
made in 1890. Mrs. Butts identified it
as having belonged to MIR. Rice. Mr.
Hadley also read n certificate Of an
assignment of legal title of share
in the Standard Oil trust to George
NJ. Rice and asked if this was issued
after the Standard Oil company of
Chic was ordered by the courts to be
GiGen1Np1 i'm 'EDGca bn M
pcrs about which Mrs. Butts was
questioned on Saturday but which she
could not then produce. They We're
signed by John d. Rockefeller. II. II.
Rogers, w. II. Tilford, attorney, and
It. -. Barstow as secretary.
Frank 5Ggerman, counsel for the
Standard Oh company, objected to this
Question as asked only for the purpose
of publication by the twenty reporters
present. The objection was overruIed.
Mrs. Butts said the paper was owned
by Mr. Rice.
These six shares are said to he the
only shares of the original Standard
Oil trust now in existence. Mrs. Butts
said the WatersPierce Oil company
was a member of the original Standard
Oil trust. Mrs. Butts said Mr. Rice
had another assignment of title which
he converted into scrip of the constit
uent companies of the Standard Oil
CpIlpdIly vi NeW Jersey. MI. ftduley
again brought from the witness, as OF
Saturday that these assignments of
title were issued in course of what Mr.
Hadley called 1.-The pretended dIssolu-
ton" of the Standard Oil company of
Ohio, and the final election of that
company from Ohio in contempt pro-
ceedings. Mrs. Butts said these shares
of stock were exchangeable for shares
of stock in the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey.
did the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey become the holding COM
pany OF these companies in the Stand
ard OIL trust?" asked Mr.. Hadley.
1T did, said Mrs. Butts.
H. D. HardcastIe Testfies
II. d. Hardcastle was the next wit
ness. He was an accountant of the
STANDARD oil company. He entered the
employ of the Standard Oil company
at Albany, New York, in 1891 Witness
was employed there eight years and
then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where
he was bookkeeper for the Republic
oil company.
Witness was transferred through or
ders of w. H. Tilford. 26 Broadway. a
director of the Standard Oil company
Mr.. Tilford said the Standard Oil
company has Just absorbed Schoheld.
Schurner & Teagle and reorganized
it as the Republic Oil company. Hard
castle gave details to show that the
new con 4pany was an arm of the trust,
remarking that the Republic Oil com .
pany, with offices at rs New street.
was merely a rear entrance al 26 Broad
way, where the Standard Oil company's
offices are.
what Instructions We're given by
the Republic Oil company to it's
agents in reference to representing it
as a competitor of the Standard Oil
company?" asked Mr.. Hadley.
THE managers of the different
states were under the impression that
the Republic Oil company was inde-
pendent of the Standard Oil company.
They got Instructions from the Kan
sas office to represent to their trade
that they were independent Of the
STANDARD Oil company"
What were they trying to accom-
plish by this plan of deceptOn?"
1T was 10 secure the trade that the
STANDARD Oil company could not get. -
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