The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-27
ROADS CAVE OIL
TRUST S LOW Rate 4 / /.
Important Testimony Of
Witness Before Com
mission.
HEARING is ENDED
AFTER THREE DAYS
Commissioners Go to Washing
ton to Prepare Report, But "a
Will Allow Time for
Argument BY
Counsel for
Standard.
BY Associated Press.l

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(By Associated Press.) 5 fs
+ CLEVELAND, OHIO, May ee.--Aftoy
three days spent In taking testimony con-
cerning the affairs of the Standard Oh II
Company. Interstate Commerce Conmis.
sloners Prouty and Clements adjourned#
the hearing this afternoon. and shortly
thereafter started for Washington, where
they are expected soon to begin the prep
aration OF their report on the testimony
taken here and In Chicago for presenta.
tion to Congress. The report, however,
Will not be closed until the Standard OllsE
Company's attorneys have been given
ample opportunity to reply to the many
statements and charges put in evidence. s@
Attorney Virgil P. Kline, for the stand-gs
ard Oh Company. gave notice Just before
adjournment, that he desired to answer
some OF the testimony produced. and rel
quested the commissioners to name a#
suitable time and place for the reopening#
Of the case. for this purpose Mr.. Kline
was told that this privilege would be exI#
tended to him, and that a time and place
would he fixed In the near future. Ss5
In the three days hearing Just CONE
pleted. a total OF Athlrty-five witnesses
have been on the stand. About fifty
or sixty We're subpoened. Some of these
were not called. Counsel for the COM
5missioners. ho owever. had five or six on
hand ready to be sworn. but the conl-A
misioners declined to hear them. indi-%
eating that the things expected to be
proved were not important. iE8s8
Important 7 estlmony.
To-day's developments were regarded as
important and were in keeping with the
general line OF inquiry made during the
two previous days. The first witness was
w. e. MacEwen, formerly chief clerk
In the car department OF the Lake Shore
n,,th Io oot1 a
pany In this city. He said he was in taS
position to know much !otE the inne + work
inEs OF thei}c department and he pross
6ceeded to tell what he knew of the hands
ling Of tank cars. He said the ears Of
the Union Tank line standard Oil cars)$
We're given great advantage over rival
cars In computing mileage and freight
bills. The bills of one would be computed
according to one standard OF distance and
those OF the other according to another
standard The result was that the
Standard was enabled to save a cor-N
siderable sum over the charges made to-
competing companies. 3zs 3s)S
Mac cEwen said he was with the Lake
Shore road for several years, and when
he left 1t he started the work with thaE
Peerless Transit Company, small rivnl&
charges We're being computed, i, no vent
to the proper Lake Shore officials andN
asked for the same advantage as wasE
extended to the Union Tank Line. The
officials, he testified. made light Of his
request. ridiculed him. and said he vas
showing great Ignorance of things Notss
discouraged however. he obtained copicss
of the compilations of car reports. which
We're duly forwarded to the Cleveland
office OF the Standard Oil Company, /, and
taking them to the sofflclals Of, the Lake
Shore, finally succeeded In accomplish
ing his object. Several weeks ago, haS
said. he noticed that the high rate was
again beins charged against his conl-s5
pany, and going once more to the general
offices. was Informed that it was all a.;
mistake: that the Peerless Transit Com
spany being the only exception to the
high charges, except the Union Line, the
matter had been entirely forgotten. ss
To Subsidize Newspapers.
4 Special Counsel NIonnett endeavored to
show by several witnesses during the day
that the Standard Company maintained
a press bureau for the purpose OF sub-
sidzlng Ohio newspapers, one hundred
and twenty-five OF which, he said. wore
on the Standards list. is5$
". j. Br!ckell 10 rmany years the edit
tor of the3Collmbls Ohio. Evening Dis-i8
patch, was one of the witnesses called S5
with this ed In Views. Mr.. Brickel was
asked whether his paper did not accept
standard OllEllteratufe ana publish 1t at gf3
news space rates. He said that he had IL
no positive knowledge OH the subject and
4tFnt the business manager was the proper
person to so to for such Information
Malcolm jennings. who conducts an adYer.f
tising bureau al Lancaster. Ohio, WAS
called for tho Same purpose. He admitted 9
that he made advertising contracts with
Ohio newspapers for the STANFORD Oil8sf
Company, but said they were no different VI
than those made for any other concern.
Literary Bureau. 55S
Another witness In this line was Charleam
J. Castle, who was for fifteen years as
special agent of the Standard In CleVa.
land territory He said that the literary
bureau was conducted by Charles A,
Ricks. who. on tho witness stand yester.aS
day denied that any such thing existed
Castle said that he made several Sadver-8
tislng contracts for Kicks himself. ,5
C. b. Chamberlain. secretary and treas.
urer OF the Globe OIL Company, OF Cleve-#
land, was one of the other Important
witnesses OF the day. He told about
trying to get contract for lubricating
the Hooking Valley Railroad, but he said
their purchasing agent c. 3, Duffy.
told him that he could not buy lubricat-s
Ing oil from him as that would lose the
road hundreds OF thousands OF dollars
in freiGhage from the Standard Oil
Company. issJ
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