The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
UNITED STATES SEEKS TO DISSOLVE
 THE STANDARD OIL C0MBINAT TON

VI QH stanudru Oli company or NeW IerL% from S10,000,000 to $1iO,000,-
 O0tS nd made it the holding corpora
 tie and placed the control through .lk.ssk ownership of all these corpora Ems previously held by the trustees $ Ito the said company
 That from 1899 to the present time, 1 the individual defendants have own
 ed and controlled the majority of
 the stock of the Standard Oil Company
 Of New Jersey, and In furtherance of
 the conspiracy they have purchased or acquired in the name of said Standard OH Company, or in the names of indi. l vidnals or corporations to re held for the benefit of the Standard oil Con- pany, the stocks of various corpora tions and limited partnerships organ. ized under the laws of various States and engaged in the oil business. SC that at the present time the defene dants control, through the Standrs1 1 oil Company of New Jersey. seventy | corporations, with an aggregate capi- tai of over st50.00o.0o0.
 List of Corporations.
 A list of these corporations and lim- ited partnerships follows:
 l Acme OH Company, New York; American Lubricattng Oil Company, New York; Anglo-American Oil Com pany (limitedl, England; Argand Re- | inning Company Ohio; Atlantic Rein ing Company, Pennsylvania; Baltimore United OH Company, Maryland; Borne Scrymser Company, New Jersey: Buck eye Pipe Line Company. Ohio; Buffalo National Gar Fuel Company. New York; Bush and Denslow Manufactur- ing Company. New York: Camden Con- solidated oil Company, West Virginia: !: Chesebrough Manufacturing Company. consolidated, New York: Colonial oil Company, New Jersey; Connmercial Natural Gas Company, Pennsylvania; Connecting Gas Company, Ohio; Con- tinentaI oil Company. Iowa; Present | Pipe Line Company, Pennsylvania. Cumberland Pipe Line Company, Ken lucky; Eastern Ohio oil and Gas Cou- l pany, Ohio; Eclipse Lubricating Oil Company, Pennsylvania; Eureka Pipe Line Company, West Virginia; Flor ence oil and Refining Company, Colo rado; Franklin Pipe Company 0imit- ed), PennsSIvsnia; Galena Signal Oil | Company, Pennsylvania; Indiana Pipe Line Company, Indiana; Lawrence Nat ural Gas Company, ennsylvania; Ma honing Gas Fuel Company, Ohio; Man. hattan oil Company, Ohio: Mountain | State Gas Company, West Virginia; National Fuel Gas Company, New Jer- sey National Transit Company, Penn | sylvania; New York Transit Company, New York; Northern Pipe Line Com. pany. PennsylvaniR: Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company, Ohio; ohio Jil Company, Ohio; oil City Fuel Sup- ply Company, Pennsylvania; oswego Manufacturing Company, New York; Pennsylvania Gas Company, Pennsyl- vania; Pennsylvania oil Company, Pennsylvania: Peoples Natural Gas Company, ennsylvania; Pittsburg Nat ural Gas Company, PennsyIvania: Piatt and washburn Refining Company. New 1 Jersey, Prarie oil and Gas company, kansas Republic oil Company, New York: SaIamanna Gas Company. New 1 York: Security oil Company, Texas; Solar Refining Company, Ohio; south srn Pipe Line Company, Pennsylvania; South Penn oil Company, Pennsyl- | vania; Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lines Company, Pennsylvania; stand ard oil Company of California. cali fornia: Standard oil Company of In- diana, Indiana; Standard oil Company of Iowa, Iowa; Standard oil Company of Kansas, Kansas; Standard Oil Com pany of Kentucky, Kentucky; stand sota; standard oil Company of Ne- braska, Nebraska; Standard oil Com pany of New York, New York; stand" ard oil Company of Ohio, Ohio; swan and Finch Company, New fork; ray lorstown Natural Gas Company, Penn sXIvania; Tide Water Pipe Company (Iimited), Pennsylvania; Tide Water oil Company New Jersey; Union Tank Tine Cnmpany. New Jersey; United Natural Gas Company, Pennsylvanla; United oil Company. Coloradoi Va cuum oil Company, New York; Wash- ington oil Company, Pennsylvania; waters-Pierce oil Company, Missouri.
 Tt is alleged that the defendants, through the Standard oil Company, and the other corporations, are engaged m producing, purchasing. and transpoFt- Ing petroleum in the various prooueins districts In the United States; that they are engaged in shipping and transport ing the said oil through pipe lines. from the various oll-producing districts to the various refineries: also engaged in shipping the said oil into all the states and territories of the United States and into foreign countries.
 That they own and control nearly all the pipe lines in said States; that they own a large number of tank cars and Steamships engaged in transporting oil; and that they have, through the instru" mentality of the Standard oil Company, of New Jersey. eliminated competition between all the separate corporations and monopolized the commerce in oil in the United States.
 The petition alleges that. in addition to the combination and control of all of said corporations in said trust and ir said Standard oil Company. of New Jersey, and for the purpose of making said combination more effective. and as a means of restraining trade and commerce and monOpolizing the same, the defendants have resorted to the following among other means and prac- tices:
 Illegal Contracts.
 The bill sets up contract between the Standard Oil Company and the Tidewater oil Company. whereby the Tldewater companies are limited to II 1-2 per cent. of certain business in Pennsylvania and New York. and the standard oil Company to receive sS 1-2 per cent of the business. the Standard oil Company guaranteeing the Tide water Company s50O.000 per annum profits, thereby eliminating all com petition.
 The bill alleges a contract made with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1884. which was in existence until 1906. in which it was agreed that the rates for the transportation of oil should be fixed by the railroad conn pany, with the advice and concurrence of the National Transit Company. thereby conferring upon the transis company the power to maintain high railroad rates. to prevent competitors from shipping crude oil in competition with the Standard Oirs pipe lines. It was also agreed that the railroad conn pany should have 26 per cent. of the petroleum both crude and refined, to carry from Western Pennsylvania to the Scaboard; and. in substance, that the transit company would pipe the oil instead of the Pennsylvania Railroad carrying it. and pay tho Pennsylvania four-hfths of the rate, or about g. cents a barrel the transit company doing the work for about cents a barrel; and that, through this ar rangement, the charges for transport