The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-07
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Second Section Of Standard Oil
Report Contains Further
Exposures. 49,. T..
Cruel Tactics Used to Crush Com
petition Barred by
Garfield. ,.9sI
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Rnecial to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ,
Chicago, May flames o 'Laughlin,
in a Washington special to the Chicago
Tribune, says:
The Standard Oil trust has fallen, IL
deed, upon evil times. r.
President Roosevelt will send to con-
gress on Tuesday the second section
Of the Garfield report. The first sec
ton convicted the trust of demanding
and receiving rebates, which IS punish
able by fine under the Elkins act; the
second will charge that. the Standard
spiracy in restraint of trade and COM
merce, an offense which carries the pen
altv Of dissolution and fine and i'm
prisonment.
It is the purpose Of the department
of Justice to institute proceedings
against the trust and its officials. both
on account of it's action in receiving
rebates and in conspiring to crush out
competition.
TO Push Anti Immunity Bills.
This is the program Of the executive
branch of the government. In his mes
sage transmitting the rebate feature
of the Garfield report the president
recommended the enactment of the free
alcohol bill in order that the Standard
might be confronted by an element OF
competition.
Senator Aldrich, chairman Of the
finance committee OF the senate, to
which was referred the bill passed by
the house providing for the removal OF
the tax on denatured alcohol, now has
announced that his committee was in
favor of the measure which would be
reported, with some amendments, within
ten days.
The Judiciary committees Of the two
houses intended to report also the bills
spec cally limiting immunity from
proso,oion to persons giving evidence
on the witness stand and claiming 1t
there.
Representative Campbell of. Kansas
has introduced a bill imposing line
and imprisonment upon any person OF
corporation which, for the purpose, OF
DESTROYING competition and creating 9
monopoly, discriminates by selling ar
article at lower price in one sect1oI
than in another. Mr.. Campbell vii
appear before the interstate and for
eign commerce committee Of the hous
this week and demand a hearing in sup
port of his bill.
Standards Cry Expected.
Already the senate has adopte
unanimously an amendment to the rail
road rate bill making pipelines com
mon carriers and subject therefore t
Inc Interstate COuultICS lows. LII
amendment will be accepted unan
The cry Of the Standard Oil and raj
road officials that Mr.. Garfield wa
guilty of misrepresentation and ignt
rance in the preparation of the rebat
section in his report was to have bee
expected, as naturally as is the sques
of pig when stuck by knife: -,
It became known today that tn
section as transmitted to congress b
The president was not in the form orig
mall y written by the commissioner {
CORPORATIONS. Numerous changes wei
made and some facts omitted from tt
document before 1t was laid befo1
congress. The effect was to tone dow
the report to what the president b
lieved to be more conservatlN
basis.
The second section has been put in
type and will be submitted to the pres
dent soon. In its present shape it ha
dies the Standard Oil without glove
describing with careful exactness t.
methods pursued by the trust to cru
competition. These methods seem to
of the highwayman variety, with t
difference that the Standard took n
only a competitors money, but his Ii.
The report deals with the crude I
production and it ;, relation to t
world g supply and the prices and met
DDS Of purchase, explaining thoroly t
situation in the oil fields of Kans
Texas and California.
It shows the way in which the cru
oil is gotten to the refneries, the ;
vantage Of the location OF the rehner
in connection with sales, the cost.
refining and marketing and the pri
at which the oil is sold in various s
lions