The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-04

actually paid Many OF these dtscrtm7
nations were clearly violation Of
tine interstate commerce law, and 9th
Eers. whether technically Illegal or not.
had the same effect upon competitors.
.on some State business secret rates
were applied by means Of rebates s
These Determinations have been so
long continued, so secret. so ingenious
ly applied to new conditions of trade,
and SO large in amount as to make it
certain that they were due to concert
ed action by the Standard and the
railroads.
The STANDARD on Company is re
ceiving unjust Determinations in open
rates.
The published rates from the lead
ing Standard shipping points are rela-
lively much lower than rates from the
shipping points Of its competitors
The advantage to the Standard over
its competitors from such open dis
examinations is enormous. probably as
important as that obtained through
the secret rates.
IL an uD4dlT lie W
taineI by one shipper through a de-
vice which in itself IS seemingly not
prohibited by law. that fact shows
that the law is defective and should
he strengthened: it does not show that
tie discrimination is proper or just.
The following are few Of the most
Important Determinations and the
methods by which they were obtained:
Cd For about ten years the New
England territory has been in control
of the STANDARD Oil Company by rea-
son OF the refusal OF the New York,
New Haven and Hartford road and OF
the Boston and Maine road. on all
but few divisions. to prorate-i- e., to
join in through rates-on oil shipped
from west of the Hudson river. and
by means of the adjustment OF pub
NShed rates.
The STANDARD is entitled to the adj
-antaSe Of its water shipping points
il reaching New England. but that adj
vantage was greatly and unfairly in
creased when the railroads by refus-
ing to prorate virtually kept independ.
Get rehners from using all rail routes.
The refusal to prorate increased the
rail rates from the West from s TO 10
cents per hundred pounds These
railroads to prorate on all other com
modities: their refusal 10 do so in the
case of CT; amounted to imposing a
substantial tax on all consumers =
tie region they cover. and is also 4
heavy discrimination against Tie
smaller refners.
60 The Standard OH Company has
been able to absolutely control for
many years the sale OF oil il the north
eastern part of New York and in a po--
ton Of Vermont by means or secret
rates from It's. reGneries at Oica1 a2d
Rochester.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has siH-
CT the STANDARD rate of cents
barrel from Oican. y. Y. 20 Roches.
ter, While the independent redneries
situated in territory adjacent % Oteaa
We're given a rate OF IS cents 4 bar.
rel. BY means of this Scent rate, in
combination with rate from Nor.
| wood. y. Y, virtually secret and
&C. ION dc lLOIl NcJi"SOIi-
70 burlington. ans! secret local rates
= ercf-oo1. The Standard has been able
% Supply central and northern: Yer
mont with oil at rate of from 1910
p cents per hundred pounds. whereas
no Independent refre- cou-I reach
| that territory from Western Penasyl-
vania save by a rate varying from sc
20 SO cents per hundred pounds
The saving to the Standard during
1904 by the secret rate from Olean
to Rochester alone was s115.000 This
and other less important rates from
loiean were unknown to the independ-
CRIT refiners, and We're not published
on the ground that they were wholly
State rates: yet in fact they We're used
for oil consigned to points beyond the
State boundary of New York Further
more. all the shipments from o1ean on
these secret rates were blind-billed
Is. e.. the rates were not shown on
the waybills.
60 The Standard OH Company has
maintained absolute control OF al
most the whole section of the coun-
try south of the Ohio river and east OF
the Mississippi by means OF secret
rates and open Determinations in rate
from Whiting, Ind.
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