Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05
o,isot to President Using It's
BUSINESS Methods as o.
ject Lesson.
|eor BEST RATES IT COULD.
c.,o'r Garfield Visited Its Ohice
w." uos Given Free Access to
Books.

vo,k May tin reply to Presi-
Np eooseyeIt's message and the re-
dei' commissioner Garfield, Messrs
po' :, Rogers and John d. Archbold OF
~ e,ondard on company said that
wy W. examination OF the message ana
.",, had necessarily been hurried
"p' md that they should at later
oa' oke n full answer to their share
us 49, Meanwhile they made the fol-
ao statement 10 the Associated
Press .,
PRESIDENTS CRITICISM
~, tho presidents effort to secure the
90 AZ bill charging the powers
,so interstate commerce commission
"a inst and equitable railroad rates
- have precisely the Same interest
40, any good citizen has. No more
IA M less. Regarding his criticisms
mon the management of the railways,
rt Ms structures upon any acts Oh 'ne
| Interstate commerce COMMISSION We
ave neither responsibility nor concern.
aWhen, however, he or Commissioner
earfeld attacks the Standard on COM
sany and uses It's methods or doing
| BUSINESS as an object lesson for the
nlrnose OF promoting his views, we pro-
sst II may be frankly stated at the
| ,atset that the Standard OH company
| M al all times within the limits OF
@,rpess and with due regard TO the law
| .ought 10 secure the most advantageous
hssht rates and routes possible. There
mi he no denial OF this fact on our
mt The question Is whether We have
K any point violated the law or the
propHetles-
PRESENT INQUIRY.
THE present inquiry grew out 81 a
resolution adopted by Congress a year
sao. on motion Of Mr.. Campbell OF Kan
,as instructng the secretary of COM
reroe and labor 70 Investigate the oil
business as carried on in this country.
/ We welcomed the investigation. When
| Commissioner Garfield. in the discharge
| Of his duty, visited our Offices, he and
| his experts were given free access to
our books and the fullest opportunity to
ascertain the manner IN which our bus
,ness was conducted. Frank dlsclo-
tares OF all our methods We're made
and every criticism offered by him was
met with candid and painstaking ans
wer
80 conscious we're we of our recti-
tude that we repeatedly importuned Mr.
Garfield to make public the conditions
existing in Kansas, but he refused. We
proposed ourselves TO answer some Of
the unfair criticism upon the sub
Meet but RETAINED on Mr., Garheld's ad-
Vice and on his assurance that his re-
port would present the case fairly
II turned out that So far as Kansas
was concerned the state authorities
abandoned their attack.
4 not puBLlCs CONCERN.
4 THE commissioners report, upon
which the presidents message ls based.
opens with the statement that the man
i ufacture Of refined oil in this country is
about 5000 700 barrels annually. II IL
unimportant, but II would nevertheless
have been fair for him to have stated
mat over 100000 Of barrels OF this
annual manufacture Is exported. and
with It's manufacture or the price the
American public Is not concerned
He next calls attention To the far,
mat the STANDARD on refnerIes are To-
Gated at centers OF distribution wh,le
the independent refneries are usually
IN the crude oil fields. This fact ~
octne steadily IN mind will answer
very many OF the criticisms which he
ia'er inaulges In The charges arc that