The bee., 1906-01-18

! i@outH--nHNhet > 3ficl IN thc SUI
preme Court and ts,e Answer OF
Ifogers' Attorneys.
New York, Jan. l3.--The features in
the case Missouri is pressing against
the Standard Oil Co. on Saturday
were:
/ Hearing adjourns to January 30.
Judge Gildersleeye reserves decision
on whether Rogers must answer ques-
tions, until Monday
Hadley scores Rogers in court, and
Is applauded
Pierce surrenders by phone to Had
Icy: will testify in St. Louis.
Rogers denies, in a published letter,
having any business transactions with
Pierce.
Pierce denies, In published letter
transferring Waters-Pierce stock to
Standard Oil.
witness testifis to sending iden-
tical letters to both Standard and
Waters Pierce companies
Hadley leaves for st. Louis, where
he has legal business for the state to
attend to.
Rogers On the stand Again.
4 New York, Jan. 1S.-The reappear-
ance of Rogers on the stand this after
noon created stir among spectators
and lawyers. Mr.. Rogers made en-
phatic denial of having had any bust
mess transactions with Mr.. Pierce.
Hadley AppIauded.
M
Judge Gildersleeve of the supreme
court this morning on the question of
whether ii. II. Rogers should be COM
PEELED TO answer Atty.-Gen. Hadley's
queries was scathing arraignment of
Rogers by the Missourian, who was so
loudly applauded when he finished that
4 Gildersleeve had to rar vigorously for
order
Mr.. Hadley's address was of sort
not often heard in the courts of New
York The young westerner does not
confine himself to conversational argu-
ments. To the court he talks as
though he were addressing large au-
dience. Once, while defending him
self against the abuse hurled at him
for several weeks by the trust lawyers.
his voice broke and he cried:
Can it be that counsel will attempt
here in foreign jurisdiction to inn
pugn the honesty of this effort-to do
something they have never dared to
do at homeg
IF there have been sensational re-
lports of these proceedings, they have
been due to tho witness Rogers--to his
fiippancy, his frivolity and attempt he
made 10 show contempt for the highest
court of Missouri
HadIey's Brief.
New York Jan. 16.-Attorney- Gen
eral Herbert s. Hadley of Missouri de-
clared in brief which was submitted
to Justice Gildersleeve, in the New York
state supreme court, that the question
of the materiality OF such questions as
he asked II. H. Rogers, in the Standard
lOl hearing In this city, Is not now
pending in the Missouri supreme court.
The brief was filed in answer to q con-
tention by Standard Oil counsel that the
New York state supreme court could
not decide whether Mr. Rogers shall be
compelled to answer Mr.. Hadley's
questions, because practically the same
/ question is pending before the Missouri
courts.
The questions are whether the stock
Of the Standard Oil Co. OF Indiana, the
waters-Pierce Oil Co. and the Republic
Oil Co. are held by the same person OF
corporation.
Mr.. Hadley's brief was submitted by
Henry Wollman, his local counsel. In
It Mr.. Hadley concludes, with refer
cnce to action in the case in Missouri:
IF your honor is of the opinion, from
an examination OF the printed record.
that this question is not before the SUI.
preme court of Missouri for decision,
then we respectfully ask that you di.
rect the witness to answer the ques-
tions asked"
Points of the Opposing Brtef.
The points in the brief against the
petition of the attorney general are:
II is declared that iLr. Rogers an.
swered all the questions asked him ex-
eepting those relating to the ownership
of stock in the responding corporations
and the conduct OF the business Of com.
panies outside the state of Missouri
and that the questions go beyond the
issue in the quo warranto proceedings
and should not be answered until the
question OF ownership is decided by
the supreme court OF Missouri.