Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-26
TRACE TRUST
PIPE LINES
STANDARD OIL OFFICIALS GIVE
TESTIMONY
SUBSIDIARY CONCERNS CONNECT
ED WITH STANDARD
Governments Prosecutor, r. 3. KEEL
Iogg, Inquiries Into Business
Relations Of Several
Companies

| BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.--Some inter
esting evidence that lay almost hidden
| In a yoluminous schedule of oil tarins
submitted to the interstate commerce
commission by the Standard OIL COM
pany was unfolded today at the hear
| ing today OF the federal suit against
the so-called oil trust. :.
Calvin N Payne, vice president OF
the National Transit company, TOOK tne
witness stand to tell about the various
pipe lines of the combine over which
he had supervision.
The schedule shows that tarins LOT
transnortation of crude oil by the
Standards pipe lines are nxeo a.
Unionville, which Is on the state line
between New York and New Jersey and
Center Bridge, located in New jersey
and Pennsylvania.
Frank b. Kellogg, conducting the
federal action, asked Mr.. Payne II
Unionyille did not spring into exist
ence in 1906, when the Hepburn Dill,
which provides that common carriers
must publish tariff schedules, became
law. Mr.. Payne testified that Union
vile doomed geographically In the SUM
mer of 1906 while he was abroad. Inc
governments counsel further developed
that at Unionville the pipes OF the ma
tionaI Transit company's carrying OIL
from clean, New York and other west
ern points connected with the pipe line
of the Standard Oil company OF new
Jersey and that at Center Bridge the
pipe line carrying the oils OF the
Eureka Pipe Line company, the BUCK
eye Pipe Line company, the southern
Pennsylvania Pipe Line company ana
the National Transit company from
= ri
with the pipe line of the Standard OH
company of New Jersey.
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Mr.. Payne said that as the lines OF
those companies ended at Unionville and
Center Bridge the tariff schedules are all
fixed for those points. Mr.. Kellogg sought
to show that no independent companies
could send oil to the seaboard over these
lines, because of rates that could not be
obtained from their points to the sea-
board. Mr. Kellogg said the Standard
would not publish rates on its line through
New Jersey, and as a consequences inde-
pendents were shut out from tidewater.
The contorl of the Corsicana Refining
company of Texas, which the government
in its bill of complaint alleges Is really
owned by the Standard, was. inquired into
today, and the governments counsel be-
lieves that he obtained from Henry C. Fol-
ger, jr., and Calvin N. Payne, two Of the
witnesses, testimony in support of the
governments contention. Both witnesses
testified that they hold official positions
with the Standard and that from 1898,
when the refinery was built, to 1906 they
held the stock of the company for the Ma
tional Transit company and in 1906 they
purchased Tie Corsicana stock by verbal
agreement from John D. Archbold and to
pay for it in ten wear. Mr.. Folger testi-
fed that the management of the Corsi-
cana company was continued along the
same lines then as before the sale by the
National Transis company a subsidiary
Of the Standard Oil company.
The oil hearings will be adjourned after
Friday over the early part of next week,
to permit John G. Milburn, counsel for the
defendant, to attend the unwilling of the
Mckinley monument at Canton, Ohio.