The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-27
BARES OIL TRUST TRICKS
FEDERAL INQUIRY SHOWS HOW
INDEPENDENTS ARE SHUT OUT.
PAYNE TELLS OF PIPE LINES
Vice President Of National Transit
Company Reveals Methods Of Stand.
ard In Fixing Tariffs on Crude Prod.
uct-Corsleana Company In Ring.

New York, Sept, 2G.--Some interest
Ing evidence that lay almost hidden IL
q voluminOus schedule OF oil tariffs
submitted to the Interstate commerce
commission by the Standard was an.
folded at the hearing OF the federal
suit against the oil trust. when Calvin
NJ. Payne, vice president OF the Ma
uonal Transit company. took the wit
ness stand to tell about the various
ppc lines of the oil combine over
which he has supervision. The SEIZED
ule shows that tariffs for the trans
portation of crude oil by the Stand
ards pipe lines are fixed at Unionville,
which Is on the state line between
New York and New Jersey and Center
Bridge, located on tho New Jersey
Pennsylvania state line. Frank Il.
Kellogg, conducting the federal action.
asked Mr.. Payne ii UniouviIle did not
spring into existence IN 1906, when
the Hepburn bill, which provides that
common carriers must publish tariff
schedules, became a law. Mr. Payne
testified that Unionville luOmed up
geographically in the summer OF 1906
while he was abroad.
The gOvCrnmcnts counsel further
developed that at Unionville the pipes
Of the National Transit company, car
ryng oil from Clean, n. y, and other
western 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
Buckeye PIPE Line company, the
Southern Pennsylvania Pipe Line
company and the National Transit
company, from Lima, o.. to the sea
board, connects with the pipe line OF
the Standard Oil company of New Jer.
sey. Mr.. Payne said that as the lines
Of these companies ended at Union
vile and Center Bridge, the tariff
schedules are fixed for those points.
Mr.. Kellogg sought to show that no
independent could send oil to the sea
board over those lines, because rates
could not be obtained from those
points to the seaboard. Mr.. Kellogg
said the Standard would not publish
rates on its line through New Jersey,
and as a consequence independents
were shut off from tidewater.
Standard Controls Corsicana Company.
The control of the CorsiCana Rein
ing company OF Texas, which the gov
ernment in its bill OF complaint, al
leges is really owned by the Standard
OIL company, was inquired into, and
the governments counsel believes that
he obtained from Henry c. Folgs-, Jr..
and Calvin M. Payne, two OF the wit
nesses, testimony in support OF tho
government s contentious. Both wit
nesses testified that they held ON
cial positions with the Standard and
that from 1898, when the refinery was
built, to1906, they held the stock OF the
company for the National Transit com
pany and In 1906 they purchased the
Corsicana stock by a verbal agree
ment with John d. Archbold to pay
for it in ten years. 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 Transit company, a sub
sidiary OF the Standard Oil company.
The oil hearings will be adjourned
after tomorrow over the early part of
next week to permit John G. Milburn.
counsel for the defendants, TO attend
the unwilling of the Mckinley monu-
ment in Canton, o.