The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-05-04
|'T MUST Be TOLD, ~
SAYS ROOSEVELT
Standard Oil and Railroads
in Panic Over Garfield
Report.
is ASSURED
Corporation Senator's Plead for tht
Suppression of the Report-Stand-
ard Oil Has Had the Rail-
roads at Its Mercy.
NJ is ASSURED

Chicago, May "a Washington dis.
patch to the Tribune:
standard Oil is on the run. So are
the railroads. Within the last few days
extraordinary pressure has beer
brought to bear on President Roosevelt
10 induce him to suppress. or at least
TO delay, the report on the Standard
OH inquiry concluded by the bureau OF
corporations under the personal direc.
ton of Commissioners Garfield.
The report hits both the Standard
on n the railroad companies %Squarely
between their corporate eyes. 1t all
legeS and proves that the Standard Oil
company in some instances has received
rebates on freight amounting to fully
so per cent. of the tariff rates.
Practically every one of the eastern
trunk lines and almost every part of
every railroad system is concerned in
these revelations.
Standard Oil Frightened.
The Standard Oil people have become
frightened and they have enlisted the
services of the railroad enators to help
them out of the hole. The friends of
the railroads in the senate are alarmed
because they believe this report, show
ing as it does direct collision between
the railroad companies and the most
hated trust in America, will stir up the
PSoPiS w SGSl gu SAlSIlt lildl an hope OIL
preventing radical railroad legislation
Will be at an end.
Fol his reason the combination OF
the railroads and the Standard Oil has
been sending emissaries to the White
House begged the president not to
after the railroad bill is out of the way.
President Will Refuse.
President Roosevelt thus far has I'M
derstood the meaning of all these sug-
gestions. He will not suppress the
Standard Oil report. 1t will be sent in
to the house of representatives prob
ably on Tuesday with a special mes
sage from the president showing that
the work has been done by Commits
sioner Garfield. under the Instructions
of the house. pursuant to what is
known as the Campbell resolution.
A more polite president, one who was
in closer touch with the big financial
interests and one who was less devoted
to the interests of the people, might
Standard Oil report. at least for the
time being. Not so with President
Roosevelt, however. He is fully aware
of the tremendous Importance of this
Official Indictment of the methods OF
the Standard Oil company.
The president has read a complete
synopsis of the report and in addition
has gone over many of the details
with Commissioner Garfield, with Sec
rotary Metcalf, and with other MEM
bers of the cabinet. He has decided tc
send in the report in direct opposition to !
tors, who's names might be given if
1T We're absolutely necessary. but whose
identity can easily be guessed at.
Railroads at End of Rope.
Furthermore. the railroad contingent
in the senate is about ready to throw
up the PONCE Mr.. Aldrich, of Rhode
Island has been bluffing from the start.
republican votes in opposition to the
policy OF the president. He has failed
to demonstrate his ability to hold HIS
forces together, and within the last
few lays specific proposals have been
made looking toward a basis of COM
triumph for the administration.
1t has even been limited that the AL
dricl-Elkins crowd in the senate would
be willing to allow the Hepburn bill
to be passed as it came from the house y
if the president meanwhile would sup
press or cut down the Garfield report
on Standard Oil in such a way as to
minimize the effect of the charges it
makes.
At the beginning of the fight in the
enate it was constantly asserted that
the whole trouble had been in the Civ
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this difficulty had been stopped since
the passage of the .Ilkins law. The
Garfield report will show exactly the
is true. b a have been
paid to the Standard Oil company long
after the passage of the Elkins law.
Railroads at Cils Mercy.
The great Oil monopoly has made
more and more Independent of
the railroads by building it's own pipe
lines. but in spite of that it has been
obliged to use the regular t~ransporta-
ton lines for all short hauls. and prac-
for all of the retail trade. 1t is
in this way it has driven cut local COM
everywhere.
In some cases it has forced railroad
to put up rates. and it has
a rebate. While the opposition
was made to pay the full tariff figures.
In some cases where the Standard
it difficult to compete with a
it has compelled the railroads to
fix ridlculously low rates, so as to en-
able it TO get into particular territory
from a distance.