Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-09

CASE AGAINST STANDARD OH
BLOCKED BY ATTORNEYS I
MISSOURI MAN ANGRY
Attorney General HadIey, Counsel for
the Prosecution III New York Suit
Against Oil Combines scores Stand
ard Men for Not Giving Information.

New York, Jan. {. -- Mrs. Ida NJ.
Butts OF Marietta. Ohio, was the first
witness before Commissioner Sanborn
today in the hearing to secure evil
denee BY which Attorney General Had
ley OF Missouri Is seeking to exclude
the Standard Oil company Of Indiana,
the Waters Pierce Oil company and
the Republic Oil com any from doing
business In Missourisor operating UNI
der pooling agreement. alleged to
have been made between the com
panies named to cruz competition.
The installation of aS typewriting ma
chine and an operator tszSszaasS ~arder
of IIadiey Indicated -
part to save the commissioner from
the necessity Of writing down in long
hand the words Of the questioner and
witnesses which was insisted upon
yesterday by the counsel for the STAN
dard OIL company. -
Rogers Refuses TO Talk.
Henry H. Rogers,vice president and
director Of the Standard OIL company
refused to answer a question dis to
whether he is stakeholder of the
Standard OIL company Of Indiana.
Rogers had previously said he is d
director OF that company Counsel for
the Standard OH interests advised
Rogers not to answer and said the
question Of the right of Attorney Gen
eral Hadley to have a list of the
stockholders Of this company is pend.
ing in the courts and he wanted the
court to decide it.
4 beg to be excused" said Rogers.
Hadley then, asked that the cues
ton and the refusal to answer be GER
tilted to the supreme court.
HadIey Is Impatient.
I'm Missouri d notary or commission
er can send a Witness to Jail for re-
fusing to answer questions" said At
torney General Hadley last night, after
hearing evidence all day. II wish that
the same law obtained here. There
would be something doing"
The hearing In the suits which are
brought to bar the Standard Oil com
pany from Missouri and to prevent
pooling had dragged through the en-
tire business day IN the office of Henry
Wollman, "a Broadway, and, thanks to
the campaign Of procrastination con-
Quoted by the Standard Oil lawyers,
only two witnesses had been heard.
| Director Bedford Hard Nut,
One OF them, Edward r. Bedford,
director of the Standard Oil company
of Indiana, had hedged and haggled
over every important question, and
had developed a remarkably short
memory and genius for refusing to
ANSWER questions on advice Of his
counsel, In spite of the fact that the
commissioner ruled that Bedford was
not represented by any counsel recog.
nized by him.
The hearing brought out:
/. That H. H. Rodgers is afflicted
| with asthma, and the presence in the
same room with him OF cameras and
reporters makes him suffer keenly.
Standard Has Time to Burn.
2. That Standard Oil has time to
burn, and Is partial to the taking OF
testimony In long hand.
3. That Standard Oil Is not above
raking up the private histories of wit
nesses opposed to 1t and circulating
typewriter pedigrees Of them among
newspaper men at hearings before the
same have been brought out in cross
examination
Know Nothing; Wax Rich.
+ A. That while the Waters-Pierce OIL
A company III the west was supposed to
! be an independent company its officers
and employees We're in som instances
! transferred by the Office at g8 Broad
way (the Standard OLD to the Waters
| Pierce offices in the west, with instriic
l II