The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
IS WILLING
 TO TELL ALL Rockefeller Ready to Answer Hadley. TESTIMONY OF MIR. ARcHBoLD Says There is No Master Mind in
 the Standard Oil. The Trust is Merely an AgsresatIon of IidividuaIs--wade Hampton also
 a Witness fin New York Hearing. zF
TESTIMONY OF MIR. ARcHBoLD

 New York, March 26.--John D. Arch bold, President of the Standard oil Company, was the principal wit ness today in the hearing conducted by Attorney General Hadley of Missouri before United States Commissioner Sanborn. In response to MT. Had- Iey's direct question, Who is the active head of the Standard Oil Company" MT Archbold replied that there was s.No master mind" in the Standard Oil, that 1t consisted of "an aggregation of individuals"
 MT. Archbold also volunteered the statement that John D. Rockefeller had no desire to evade any questions; that MT. Rockefeller knew nothing about the matters concerned in the present suit but that if Mr. Hadley wished to go to Lakewood and question him he would find Mir Rockefeller willing to answer any questions. MT. Hadley in- terrupted this statement with thS re- mark, There Is only one way to ex- anime witnesses here"
 Wade Hampton, General Auditor of the Standard oil Company, testified that he had on various occasions sent men from his office in New York to St. Louis to audit the accounts of Waters Pierce oil Company, and that while so employed the men were on the pay
 
 course was pursued in auditing tho books of the Standard oil Company ot Indiana
 Hampton Testfaes.
 Wade Hampton followed Mir. Arch bold He stated that as general man. aging auditor for the Standard Oil Companv, he sent men from his office to St. Louis to audit the accounts of the Waters Pierce Oil Company. Dur inx the time this audit was being made he said the men were on the pay roll of the Waters-Pierce Company MT. Hampton said that when he declined to answer questions at the hearing last January he presumed that he was be- ing aske8 8ncerning the auditing of the waters-Pierce Company as per formed for to 1890.
 And don't you think your answers were calculated to mislead?" asked the Missouri Attorney General.
 T don't think so"
 MT. Hampton said he sent man to audit books of the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana, and the auditor was pIaced on the pay rolls of Wads Hamp- ton. He got the money for this pay roll from the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The witness said he had never audited the books of the Repub- lie oil Company. but the other suosld- lary companies of the Standard Com pary were audited under his direction. MT. Hadley then produced a letter written by Mir. Hampton to H. c. Pierce at st. Louis. as President of the Waters Pierce Company, July z, 1889, introduc- ing tour" John D. Hornberger, who went. the letter read, at the writer's request to audit the books of that com pany.
 Admits writing Letter.
 Mir. Hampton said he wrote the letter. second letter was ordered addressed to I. P. Druitt in St. Louis, introducing MT. Conroy who, the letter said, went to St. Louis to audit the Waters-Pterce Company's books and ordering him to be placed on the pay rolls of that com pany as an employe for reasons, the letter read, which you will doubtless appreciate.
 The witness said he also wrote that letter.
 Asked why he used the term you will doubtless appreciate.' the witness thought it probably referred to some conversation he might have had with Mr. Smith.
 twas it not because the State of Texas had refused license to the Wa ters- Pierce Company and you did not consider 1t wise to have the fact known that this auditor was a Standard OH man?" asked the Attorney-GeneraL
 Not at all," said MT. Hampton.
 MT. Hadley then read Mir Hampton testimony at the last hearing when he testified that he had not directed R. B Backus to go to St. Louis and audit the books of the Waters-Pierce Company Then MT. Hadley read a number of let ters which stated to MT. Druitt that Mir Backus was coming to St. Louis to audit the books and ordering him placed on the pay roll as an employe Other letters written by MT Hampton to MT. Druitt in St. Louis introducing other men who came from other points to assist MT. Backus in auditing th' books" and ordering them likewise placed on the pay rolls while at work in St. Louis were read. All of the men according to the letters of the witness had their expenses paid by the Waters Pierce Company.
 Paid by waters-PIerce.
 The witness declared that he did noi order the Waters-Pierce Company hooks audited, but the men were sen to St. Louis and paid by the Waters Pierce Company while there, but it wal not done under his direction
 MT Hampton said Mir. Backus anC RI P. Tinsley resigned as auditors fo the Standard oil and MT. Backus be came the Secretary and MT. Tinsley thu Vice President of the Waters-Pierc, Oil Company. Mir. Tinsley at one tim held the position designated as agen at 26 Broadway and that designation 
 ia still in force today, the witness said H c. Arnold, he said, is the agent now e. II. Nichols is a member of the do nestle trades committee. The witness said he owns no stock in the Waters Pierce, the Republic or the Standar' oil Company of Indiana.
 Harry L. Platt, the next witness, saiC he had been employed at 26 Broad way for year and half. His worl had been first with the Union Tanl Line Company, but later he was trans ferred to and received his pay iron the Standard oil Company of New ter sev. He was in the office of maj named Cook and later in that of H. M Tilford. The Waters Pierce Company The Republic oil Company and tn Galena oil Company, he said. used tn Union Tank Line Company's tank cars
 Adjourned until tomorrow.
 Eafher and son Shot.