The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-18

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ani the f9tel thrre entered, Hnd that the
ofheera ~ tho flinGia CenfJHl eve aSafs
that the rats, although filed with tho later
state CumfHefce Commission, wa tp handled
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that tho Urtnd Junction ttte, shiGh Naa
uaed virtually ne y propagation ~ 4 through
rate ~ witch that rGiiFntd wHs n purty (btit
which tho Standard officials olaiil Wis not
secret1 had hsyer beeu known to the Bouths
ern HailWay until discovered by the Hurpau
~ Corporations. and that bad that rats
been known the Southern Railway would
have instantly demanded q change.
ANSWER TO RooEHa AsD kRCHBoLD.
sMr. Rogers and Mr. Archb0Id, ofiuerg
of the standard Qtl Company. are, quoted
a. saying. ~ tho New England roads ought
TO prorate but refuses TO do so IL must Oc-
cur 10 some one somewhere that perhaps
the New England roads and noe The Stand
ard OIL Company are blamable.'
As shown In Chapter III. % the report,
| the standard OIL Company for yeaVa has
enormously benefited by the refusal Of
New England roads TO pronate, and q repre-
sentative Of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford system states that the Standard
Oil Company wanted the road not 10 pro-
rate.
sMessrs. Rogers and Archbold are quoted
as saying. regarding the Whiting-St. Louis
rate: 1t 10 quite true that, having our oil at
Whiting aud desiring 10 transport II TO
points.In the interior Of Illinois, we used the
! State rates
sAs shown in Chapter VII. Of the report.
all shipments from Whiting into Illinois
are interstate. The mere inclusion Of
|, whiting in the Chicago switching district
by al application sheet does not make
shown In the report, the Standard Oil Com
pany has used the location Of Whiting for
the purpose Of claiming the right TO use
either ndiana State rates or Illinois state
rates, as best suited ia convenience The
railroad waybills show that the Standard
Oil Company directed that hundreds OF
these cars billed from Whiting TO East st.
Louis should go on to st. Lou without
unloading, and the railroad records show
that hundreds more went on without I'M
loading TO many points Of the Southwest,
which fact the Standard Oil Compa ny
necessarily knew.
"Messrs. Rogers and Archbold say
further. The case Of the shipment from
New FORK TO Vermont OF which mention is
made is susceptible Of like explanation
~As shown in Chapter III. OF the report,
both the Standard Oil Company as shipper
and the railroad IA carrier were aware that
the secret rate from Clean to Rochester
was used for these shipments to Vermont,
and the Standard traffic officers were aware
that the secret State rates were used on
shipments from Burlington to points in
Vermont on moving direct from Clean.
"Messrs. Rogers and Archbold are quoted
as saying: Again, he 1.-THE Commissioner OF
Corporationsl has no control whatever over
State rates, which by the law are put under
the jurisdiction of the State authorities,
and over which neither the Bureau OF Com
merce nor the Interstate Com
mission has any control. But all OF this
aside, there nave been no secret rates nor
unlawful determinations in the interest OF
the Standard Oil Company.
Attention is invited to the use, in con-
nection with clearly interstate shipments,
of secret State rates from Clean, n. Y,
on oil destined to Vermont, from Burlington
Vt, On oil coming from Clean, n. Y, from
Whiting to Evansville on shipments des-
tined to the South, and from Whiting to
shipments continued without ~reloading into
the Southwest; also to the secret rate COM
bination by way of Grand junction, Tenn,
and that by way of Alexandria, La, and 70
u 49, 81 aAoF0t Nn Hnn nnH III
rect rebates in California, the latter being
shown in Chapter IX. of the report.
Furthermore. 1t Ia an interesting fact
that in 1901, in response to a request from
the industrial commission for information
in the South, Mr.. Arohbold wrote the
commission and gave the rate from
Whiting to Birmingham as AZ cents; from
Whiting to Memphis, Tenn, as Is cents
from Whiting to Little Rock, Ark, as soT
secret rates were discovered by the Bureau
of Corporations, the Standard Oil Company
was shipping trafio on the following rates;
From Whiting to Birmingham, by, way
Of Grand junction, 29H cents; from whiting
to Memphis, by the same route, Is cents;
from Whiting to Little Rock, by. way Of
East st. Louis, 20 cents. Those facts are
all set forth In full in Chapters VI. and VII.
Of the report. Very respectfully,
JAMES RupoLpH GARFIELD,
"The President"
NEW YORK CENTRAL GAVE DISCRIMINATORY
RATES.
Mr.. Garheld's full report comprises
more than 500 printed pages and is pro-
fusely illustrated with maps and charts.
There is considerable space devoted to
describing the methods Of railroads in
transporting oil in New York state Con-
corning this Commissioner Garfield says:
THE New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company refused TO permit the
Bureau OF Corporations to make an exami-
nation OF its records covering the ship
ment of petroleum, except in some instances
where Interstate shipments were kept
separate from so-called State business,
The management of the road commended that
its lines we're wholly within the state OF
New York and that its policy had always
been to jealously guard its intrastate bust
ness. The bureau is, therefore, unatle at
present TO treat in any detail. the rates OF
this carrier. The statutes of New York
do not require the publication OF taritis,
and officers of the New York Central ad-
mitted that that company very generally
did not publish tariffs covering business
which it regarded as of an intrastate oharao-
ter.
1T is known, however, that the New
Work Cantral system has rates on oil which