The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-09
STANDARD OIL MACNATE
 EVASIVE IN ANSWERS
DECLINES OUTRIGHT TO MAKE 4 REPLY TO ONE
 QUESTION

Declares It is Immaterial to Him What
 the Supreme Court of Missouri Ex-
 poets Him to Say--NOt Sure Where
 Offices Are Located of Oil Company
 in Which He is a DirectOr---AttOrney
 General HadIey Willing Lawson
 Should Testify If He Knows Any,
 thing of Importance.
 New York, Jan. S--Henry H. Rogers. vice president of the Standard Oil cona- pany of New Jersey, and director Of the Standard Oil company of Indiana. which Attorney General Herbert s. Hadley is trying to oust from the state of Missouri, was on the witness stand to-day on quo warranto proceedings brought by MT. Hadley. MT. Hadley for took up with him only two points: Whether the Standard Oil company of Indiana has an office in the building at 26 Broadway, this city where the Standard Oil company of New Jersey has it's office; and whether the Standard Gil company Of New Jersey owns 0r controls majority of the stock of the Indiana company, the Waters-Pierce Oil company of Missouri, and the Re- public Oil company of New York.
 MT. Rogers said that he did not know that the Indiana company had offices at 26 Broadway, that he supposed it's affairs were in Indiana and that he imagined that James A. Moffet, presi- dent of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, has an office at 26 Broadway. but that he (Mr. Rogers) was never in | it.
 Mir. Rogers declined to answer the question whether the Standard oil company of New Jersey owns the stock of the other companies which MT. Had ley alleges, have combined to stifie competition in Missouri MT. Hadlev pressed the questions with much insist ence and demanded answer without | evasions.
 Do you mean to say to the supreme court of Missouri that you do not know where the offices of the company of which you are a director are located?'' demanded MT. Hadley.
 Tt is immaterial to me what the su- preme court of Missouri expects me tu say, replied MT. Rogers
 When MT. Rogers went on the stand this afternoon a zealous photographer temporarily broke up the proceedings and drove him out of the room by burn ing a flash light to get picture of him. It filled the room with smoke, and MT. Rogers was excused until d later hour.
 | H. D. Hardcastle, formerly employed in the Albany agency of the Standard oil company, was MT Hadley's chief witness to-day
 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 employees of the Standard oil company, and one of them told ma he must not be known in Cleveland as having been employed by the Standard Oil company. 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 positions but he received a ticket for Europe without return coupon.
 Mr. Rogers was testifying when the hearing was adjourned to-day.
 After the adjournment Attorney Gen- eral Hadley's attention was called to some published advise to him concern ing the proceedings from Thomas ". Lawson of Boston, and he was asked:
 Do you want MT. Lawson to come down here and testify in this case?"
 Certainly. If MT. Lawson knows anything I should like to have him come down. said Mir. Hadley.