The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
UNITED STATES
 SEEKS TO DISSOLVE
Cantrol of Ptpe Llnes.
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Control of Pipe Lines.
 1t is alleged the Standard oil Com many and the Standard oil Trust have had control of and monopolized th' carrying business by pipe lines in and from all the oil-producing regions oi the United States except Texas, Louis lana and California: that they are com mon carriers. and that they have re- fused and failed to perform their du' dies as such; that they have charged rates which were discriminatory in fa- vor of the Standard oil Company; that they have refused to furnish equal fa- cflitfes for receiving and delivering oil of Independent shippers and rehners that they have refused to transport oil belonging to others than the defend ants and their associated companies, and since the month of August, 1906, have refused to transport oil of others except in such large quantities as to completely prevent independent produc- CTS and reflners of oil from using their service; and that they have forced six teen independent rehners now doing business in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and procuring their crude oil through the Standard Oil Company's pipe lines, to sell ali of their export oil to the Stand ard oil Company.
 The bin alleges that the Standard Oil Company, through their various pipe 4t4o C0&ApdiA6Ss paid pFlCSb or premiums on gil in limited territories adjacent to competing pipe lines, there by taking away the business of such pipe lines; but, as soon as the pipe lines were crushed out or purchased by the Standard withdraw the premiums and lower the prices
 Also. that the Standard oil Company held out various companies as inde- pendent companies, while, in truth, and In fact, they were pipe lines owned by the Standard Oil Company.
 That the Standard oil Company un- derto9k to obtain one-haIf the stock of the Producers oil Company, and $3s3.- 600 out of si.19O.o00 of the stock of the United States Pipe Line Company, in an attempt to get control of these com panies.
 Discrimination Charged.
 It is alleged that one of the principal instrumentalities through which the defendants have been enabled to mo- nopollze the commerce in petroleum and its products throughout the United States hase been a. system of prefer ential rates, and rates discriminatory against the competitors of the Standard Oil Company, both In open and pub 1lshed tariffs and by and through secret and unpublished rates. both interstate and tntrastate, and by rebates, conces- aions, and preferences granted to the &EanoarQ Oll company and its subSidt- ary corporations. The bill goes into The details of many of these rates, and shows a systematic discrimination. sub stantially all over the United States, SO that rates from Standard shipping points are lower, for the same dis tance proportionally and per ton mile, than from shiping points of independ- ent competing concerns. These differ ences in most instances amount to more than a reasonable profit upon the oil; and 1t is alleged that these rates were in existence until about the time of the fnvestigatiCA of the Department of Commerce and Babor in 1905 and 1906 Some of the more prominent of these discrimtnations are as follows:
 Whiting, Ind, Is the largest Western refinery of tlNs Standard oil Company. The independents ship from Western Pennsylvania and from Cleveland. Tole- do. and Findlay. o. The rates from whiting into all the Southern States south of the Ohio River. east of the Mississippi River, and west of the At lantic seaboard are from 5 to 22 cents per hundred pounds less than the rates from the independent shipping points, and the rates per ton per mile very much less from Whiting than from the Independent points. Tables are set forth in the bill showing the dlscrim- nations. The regular published rate