Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

Company
Are you connected with the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey?"
Il decline to answer on advice Of coun-
sell"
'.Is It not a fact that you are director
In that company and that Ii owns. holds
other corporation or individual all or
controlling interest In the stock of the
Standard Oil Company Of Indiana and the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Mr. Rogers again declined to answer
Were you one of the trustees OF the
Standard OIL trust during its existence7'
Mr.. Rogers declined to answer
Mr.. Hadley asked IL during that trust the
trustees did not hold a majority OF the
stock of the Waters-Pferce Company ana II
from that time the Waters Pierce Company
has been controlled either by the Standard
Oil Company Of Indiana or the Standard
Oil Company OF New Jersey.
Mr.. Rogers again declined to answer.
The Standard Of Indiana.
who mas charge of conducting the bust
ness OF the Standard Oil Company Of In
dlana?"
''The president. James A. Moffett.' said
Mr.. Rogers.
did he ever report to the board of di-
tectors as to the territory In which tho
Standard Oil Company of Indiana does bus
iness2"
81 don't think so. / never heard OF It.
us 1t not fact to your knowledge that
the Standard Oil Company OF indiana and
Waters-Pierce OIL Company have divided
the state of Missouri between them as tra.se
territory?
at is not. I never heard of such an
agreement and don't believe it was ever
made" said Mr. Rogers.
''If 1t is a fact that the Standard Oil Com
pany sells Oil In the northern part OF Mis-
souri, and the Waters-P Pierce OIL Coa1.a,-ny
I'm the southern part. and neither Will sell
IN the territory OF the other. have you any
a a n Hirc<y a ID
sision?"
Mr.. Rogers said: at am not assuming.
You assume too much.''
Did Not Know Mcdonald.
Mr.. Rogers said he did not know Alexan.
der Mcdonald.
do you not know 1t to be a fact that in
1900 Mcdonald and w. H. Tilford ne2o-
tiated the purchase Of the property of Scho-
field, Schurmer & Teagle, and that the bust
Company, Of which the incorporators were
three clerks in the offices at % Broadway
II do not said Mr.. Rogers.
Did you know it?"
II said I do not
Ibid your"
~ did not"
DO you know that these are not the
facts?"
~ don't think they are the facts"
Mr.. Rogers said he did not know where
w. III. TflfOrd Is now.
is he in New York;
II don't know whether he Is here or In
purgatory.'
What placer"
ut is not in Missouri" said Mr.. Rogers.
He Knew Tilford.
He said also that he thought w. II. TIL
ford is a director of the Standard OH Com
pany of Indiana and that he had seen him
within month. Witness knew H. M. TIL
ford, and said he thought Mr.. Tilford has
an office at 26 Broadway.
with what company is he connected2'
Mr.. Rogers would not answer.
lis it not fact that II. M. Tilford is con-
nected both with the Standard Oil Company
Of Indiana and with the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey?'
Mr.. Rogers declined to answer that and
the following question:
is it not a fact that there Is paid over to
H. M. Tiiford. often as declared, two
thirds of the dividends of the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company3 'f..-
Counsel objected to this as an indirect
method of finding out the stock controlled.
Asked Question Be Certified.
Mr.. Hadley asked that the question be
certified to the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Rogers declined to answer the aues-
ton:
Did you have some business transactions
with H. Clay Pierce in 1904 by which you
secured for either the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey all or part Of the
Waters-Pierce Oil Companyg'r ea.>I4 81 "a
Mr.. Hadley made the same request for
certifcation.
is the business OF the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana handled by committees?"
1 wish you had to be more explicit
You just explain the committee business
at 20 Broadway, with reference to the STAN
dard Oil Company of Indiana, and we Will
have no difficulty" said Mr.. Hadley
Counsel objected and Mr.. Rogers said he
did not understand it,
Asked for an Explanation.
Mr.. Hadley withdrew the question and
asked II the business of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana IS not done by com
mittees.
You will have to explain that"
Have you not, at 26 Broadway COM
mittee on domestic and foreign business on
Illuminating or lubricating OIL and is not
all the business of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana handled by committee%'
Counsel objected. and Mr. Rogers de-
clined to answer. He said he did not know
whether any part of the business of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana is done
through committees
He assumed that the Standard OIL Conn
pany of Indiana deals In all the producers
of petroleum.
Did you learn when you visited Kansas
tnat " dealt in lubricating oil?'
only by hearsay. 1 assume it did, re-
piled Mr. Rogers N'
The hearing was than