New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-17
STANDARD OIL REPLIES.
says NO REBATES SHOWN
Statement IN RebuttaE of Commits
sioner GarTSeld's Charges.


The detailed reply Of the STANDARD OIL Com
pany % The charges against it contained IN the
recent report Of the Commissioner OF cornora-
tions which was transmitted to Congress lv the
President an q special message on Nav Wa.
made public yesterday afternoon
Promptly following the publication OF the mes
sage and report, Il VIII be remembered a state
Enent was issued by n. B. Elliott general sol,cg-
Tor Of the Standard on Company, and one bv
Il. H Rogers and John D. Archbold. and =. ,vss
then announced that a comprehensive resnonea
90 the charges would be given out later, in the
form Of a communication from the directors 70
the stockholders. That statement, which has
been issued as pamphlet OF a little over nine
pages. makes no reference to the subject matter
Of the Presidents message, but confines itself 10
traversing certain OF the charges made bv Com
missioner Garfield, which are taken up one bv
one and discussed with varying fulness
Summing up the subject. the statement saws
that Il has not been shown that the Standard
Oh Company has IN about fifteen years received
q single rebate on its interstate shipments.
The statement IS. in part, follows:
Il must be borne in mind that when shipments
are made between two points located in different
and the thereon within the jurisdiction Of
ne IeoeIS1 H tss a Fe Se
tory state intrastate shipments. and the
Mr., Garfield opens. his detailed instances with
& Hartford Railroad and the Boston Maine Rail
this gave an undue advantage TO the Standard be.
cause the latter reached coast points III New Eng
land by water, and distributed oil thence by rail TO
Il was pointed out TO the Commissioner that
competitors distributed oil in the same way from
Bridgeport, Conn. enjoying exactly the same rates
81 the standaTd from so2s Point ' NoTW RdiI
Conn 70 the same stations. and that the same was
6 q q Al ~.
erly, Mass, as compared with the rates given TO
corroborafive Of the foregoing. President &. 81
Nellen OF the New York, New Haven & Hartford
upon our lines with the STANDARD OH Company un5
dent Lucius Iutttle Of the Boston & Maine Rail-
road says: NO man can say with the slightest
ever shown any discrimination between the Stand
ard Oh Company and any other OIL producers"
THE RATES FROM CLEAN.
Under the head Of The Rates From clean"
the report says that the Vacuum OH Company
has refneries at Olean and Rochester, and that
the rate OF nine cents a barrel was put in as q
between refinery rate" and has been in force
for great many years. 1t quotes the explana-
ton heretofore made on this subject by Vice.
President Thayer OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. and adds:
While the commissioner dvveIIs NTH ernh.s,s
Upon the low rate OF nine cents between Clean and
WHICH he has rs tno 2Ss no mention OF tariff OF
cents barrel on crude oil and ten cents on refined
DOT distance Of but little less than that between
Slgsn ana hochester, the rates from Freemansburg
Ny Garfield in connection with the clean rate
rate from NoTwood e Y TO secret
Essaoafc enjoyed lower rates than competing ship
lows; Many perhaps fifteen years ago the road
esd for soma Of the oil trac. 5nd iss@sd and
,eo NlI ~ the Interstate Commerce Commission
satS q 3 a car. The rate from Rochester n Y
TIe ~ ~ooa' \ 4, was nine cents per 100 pounds
Burlington via Nor%ood ad t ire st EoshesteT to
Oies--9 s-.o Wltho1t rebate. the state rates from
punished rate Of SO a car from Norwood n, v
dine of js 0n' nh H. whicn had been fled at the
1 n There was nothing illegal in this method
bnation Of state and interstate rates as aesinsf
IgIe rate higher than the combination has been
Il is dlf6cult to understand why the s2s rate from
tuay secret rate when it was not only 6gie Covered T
~ arm hled with the Interstate Commerce Com
shipment made by a competitor Of the Standard
Taking up Shipments into the South" the re-
port SAYS:
pE Bs nat bs 6hs ste eo63T on Il Com
99 9d 99unfry south OF the Ohio River and
open Determinations from Whiting IND anu
ne charge covers many rate points. First comes
Mai e , 10 Ins 81. on entering the South through
in2is Central and the Chicago Eastern Illinois 5i
refined oil from Whiting Ind TO Grand Juncfio IN
IN vas Z cents per 100 pounds. and this rate
sserst5te Commerce Commission. The latter fact
Mr GARFIELD has omitted to state in his reporf
Inc Southern Railway had a tariff also published
1no Med with the Interstate Commerce Comr1is-
GIsnd Junction. Tenn. 70 great many 5'- points
IN force since 1895 and collections have sW UsIa
Deen made from the Standard Oil Company AT the
involved no Pe u ee Of f5s sI6 being
route was simply an incident in the isfbton
u z part OF a very large tonnage into the South
-, 50 far as the rates from Whiting TO Evans
Flile are concerned, the fact is that these rates
we're openly quoted by the railroads and were in
-orce q great many years. The STANDARD had
nothing 10 do with the railroads method OF mani
-eSllng- II simply paid the rates quoted 10 n
without rebate or secret settlement OF any kind
RATE TO EAST ST LOUIS.
M Carried complains Of the application Of
Ing, Ind. TO East ST. Louis Ill claiming that Il
vas secret rate. and that in the matter of
resortsd 70 with the knowledge Of the Standard
III of1cials. For several wears the three
roads (the Burlington. The Alton and the Chicago
eastern llllnois) applied the six cent rate from
Whiting under their widely known rule under
stood by every carload shipper in Chicago and
vicinity, VIZ that Chicago rates would apply to
and from all points within the switching limits
number Of these points are just across the
border in Indiana and the seat Of important
Ind Indiana HaT9oor. Common usage es-
tablished the principle Of applying Chicago rates
Up 70 the time the practice was covered by appli-
cation sheets fled with the Interstate Commerce
Commission
With the method Of way-biIng which is purely
- accounting matter between the railroad agents
tna me railroad auditor the shipper necessarily
.5as nethng 20 DO Commissioner Garfield insisted
tlat the Standard OIL Company must have known
o. ule method Of manifesting until ii was pointed
- - nm with extreme care that the Chicago
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