The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-01-10
ON TRAIL OF STANDARD
Mr.. Rogers Said He Did Not
Know Location of Offices.
Declined to Answer Whether Standard
OIL Company Controlled Stock Of
Companies Alleged to Have Stifled
Competition In MissourI-Thomas
w. Lawson Volunteers Advice.

Companies Alleged to Have stfled
Competition In MissourI-Thoma
w. Lawson Volunteers Advice.
New York, Jan. 9.-Henry H. Rogers,
the vice president OF the Standard
OIL company of New Jersey and di.
rector OF the Standard OIL company
OF Indiana, which Attorney General
Herbert S. Hadley is trying to oust
from Missouri, was on the witness
stand on quo warranto proceedings
brought by Mr.. Hadley Mr. Hadley
took up with him only two points:
whether the Standard Oil company OF
Indiana has an Office at 26 Broadway,
this city, where the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey has Its offices,
and whether the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey owns or controls a ma.
jority of the stock of the Indiana com.
pany, the Waters-Pierce Oil company
of Missouri and the Republic Oil com.
pany Of New York.
Mr.. Rogers said that he did not
know that the Indiana company has
offices at 26 Broadway, that he sup.
posed its affairs are in Indiana and
that he imagined that James A. Moi.
| fet, president Of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, has an Office at
26 Broadway but that he (Rogers) was
never In 1t.
| Mr. Rogers declined to answer the
question whether the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey owns the
stock of the other companies which
Mr.. Hadley alleges had combined to
stifle competition in Missouri. Mr..
Hadley pressed the questions with
much insistence and demanded an
swers without evasions.
DO you mean to say to the supreme
court of Missouri that you do not
know where the Offices of the company
In which you are director are 10.
cated?" demanded Mr.. Hadley.
ut is immaterial to me what the SILL
preme court Of Missouri expects me
to say" replied Mr.. Rogers.
When Mr.. Rogers went on the stand
a jealous photographer temporarily
broke up the proceedings and drove
him out of the room by burning a
flashllght to get picture Of him. It
| filled the room with smoke and Mr.
Rogers was excused until later hour.
H. D. Hardcastle, who formerly was
employed in the Albany agency Of the
Standard OIL company, was Mr. Had.
ley's chief witness.
He testified to instances In which he
was transferred from the Standard OIL
company's employ to that of the Re-
public Oil company at Cleveland, O.,
and of the Atlantic Refining company
at Philadelphia. These transfers. he
said, were made by officers or en-
ployes OF the Standard OIL company
and one of them told him he must not
be known in Cleveland as having been
employed by the Standard OIL CON-
pany. Witness had some letters, he
said, from Standard OIL men, which
he was induced to surrender to Walter
Jennings of the Standard OIL company
in the hope of getting better position,
but he received a ticket for Europe
without a return coupon.
Mr.. Rogers was testifying when the
hearing adjourned.
After the adjournment Attorney
General Hadley's attention was called
to some published advice to him con-
cerning the proceedings from Thomas
w. Lawson of Boston and he was
asked:
do you want Mr.. Lawson to come
down here and testify in this caseT'
"Certainly. II Mr.. Lawson knows
anything should like to nave MIN
come down." said Mr.. Hadley.