The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-18
REPORT OF
 GARFIELD President Sends It to
 Congress. STANDARD OIL REBATES Prints Evidence Showing How
 Trust Got Benefit. Shows Establishment of Through Rates From Small and Obscure Points Near Large Shipping Centres For Evasive Purposes.

Washington May l7.--President Roosevelt today transmitted to Con- gress the complete report of James R. Garfield, Commissioner of Corpora tions, of the investigation which he made into the operations of the all legged oil trust, A full synopsis of the report, accompanied by a message facts developed by the Inquiry, was sent to Congress on Friday. the fourth instant
 The publication of the message and the synopsis of the report attracted widespread attention. Comments on the message and the report were made by officials of the Standard oil Com pany and by officials of several sys- tems of railroads. In submitting to the President the full report of his in ouiry, Commissioner Garfield wrote, a letter to him inviting his attention to some of the published comments on the oil report attributed to certain rail- way officials and representatives of the oil trust. That letter was made pub lie today by direction of the President. although It was not sent to Congress with MT Gsrfields report II Is pe- culiarly interesting. because 1t con- tains Conmissioner Garnelds answer, by directing attention to certain parts of his complete report to the comments which have been made.
 Epitcsne of Report.
 An epitome of Commissioner Gar field's letter Is as follows:
 MT. Tuttle. President of the Boston and Maine is reported to have said the Boston and Maine Railroad for years, except in certain sparsely set tied sections of the country, has joined with roads on which oil traffic origin ates in through rates and every ship per and receiver of oil has been treatd exactly alike
 aAs shown in Chapter 3 Of the re- port, the Boston and Maine states In letter to the bureau, that the road does not pro rate on a portion of it's sys' tenn, giving list of 3e4 Ftations af' fected. Some of the cities 10 whicf that road does not pro rate are Lowell Lynn, Lawrence and Haverhtl, Mass. Pertis~a' Ma.rxasaa PortsrssH.h, N. H These cannot properly be terTnet sparsely settled sections. MT. Bayer Vice Rresiderit Of the Pennsylvanis Railroad. Is reported to have said re, sarding the special rate from Clean tc Rochester that the trafiic to be trans ported under such rate was crude oi ana unfinished products moving from one refinery to another, belonging te the same owners; and the rate has no' DGen was applied on refined oil Tn afew in' stances, insignificant as compared witf the total traffc,' and that the wording of the tariff was corrected that '1t ]! not a secret rate and never has beer secret
 Mr. Garfield says that in view Q! MT Thayer's statement that blind bii- ling is not a secret device. the state nnent of MT Everest, first president oi the Vacuum oil Company. corporation subsidiary to the Standard oil Com pany which operates refineries at Olear ana Rochester N Y, is interesting. Mir. Everest says that if the rail road company gees fir to grant q com pany special rates on the goods han dled over its line, I know Of no reason why they should not be accepted" AL though he recognizes that rebates be- tween states are now illegali
 Continuing Mir. Garfield says:
 "As m chapter VII of the report the records of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy show that the six cent rate was applied on hundreds of cars which moved from Whiting Ind, to East St. Louis I'll. and St Louis, Mo, as shown directly on the way bills. The rate did not appear in the regular tariffs of the chicago Burlington and Quincy, but in what were known as billing or ders After the rate had been raised to 10 cents, but before 1t had been filed with the interstate commerce commif- s,on an independent shipper at Chi cs9o telephoned the office of the Bur ljneton for the rate from Chicago 70 St Louis and was quoted at the reRu- lay 1s cents rats A similar quotation was given by the Alton at the same t,nne No independent shipper inter viewed by the bureau of corporations was ever aware of this rate except ono 1pho had formerly been in the employ of the standard oil Company.
 Illinois Central Party.
 "As shown in chapter VI of the re- mort. the Illinois Central was party to the grand junction rate. which was used for the purpose of obtaining thorough rate on oil to the south ana Southeast one fourth less than the nnhiished rate: that the Illinois Gen. tral was party to blind billing In con nect,on with this rate; that the blind billine were returning 10 the central oft,ce of the Illinois Central and the rates there entered, and that the ofn- cers of the Illinois Central were aware that the rate, although filed with the inter-state commerce commission, was so handled as to be absolutely secret.
 Report Covers 500 Pages.
 The report Of Mir Garfield is com rrabensive one and covers 500 printed pages In support of the various all ieqationa made by him he prints bodi- " in the report copies Of way bills. let tsrs of railroad officials bearing on transartions with agents of the Stand or5 oil and Independent oil companies srecial oil tariff of various railroads, htIle of lading. blind bills of lading and nanret understandings and agreements ss tba several railroad companies nam os r,,ts the standard Oil Company. Tn 'arv instances. according to the cop ,as os ,ne way bills, the rate paid by .Sa standard oil Company, was only 8s "a ner cent of the amount stated in the bill
 roads is given in confirmation of the hureaus charge that there was a con esslment of rates granted to the Stand srd Ou Company Although 1t Is al- Issed in the case of the Chicago and Aitcn Railroad. the general tariff offl- csrs admit the existence of a secret rate ana the purpose was to conceal 1t from ether railroads and not from the ship ne~s One of the leading freight clerks oS the Alton Is quoted as tcstifyinR that the secret rate was intended only S-- 4he hAnefft of the Standard Oil