The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-05
MOFFETT FAILS ID
 PROVE HIS WORDS Grand Jury Returns Report to
 Judge Landis KNEW NOTHING OF RATES Report of the Grand Jury Brings Out the Fact That Moffett's Statement
 Was Furnished By the
 Standard Oil Go.
KNEW NOTHING OF RATES

Chicago, October 4.-The grand jury, be-
 fore which President James A Moffett of the Standard Oil company of Indana was
 recently called to afford him an oppor-
 tunity to substantiate certain statements
 made over his name in pamphlet which
 has been extensively circulated, returned
 its report to Judge Landis in the United
 States district court today. The jury de- clared that President Moffett had not only failed to uphold the statements he
 had made but that he had no knowledge
 whatever leading up to them, and that
 the statement which purported to be made
 by him was, in fact, made by Moritz Rosenthal of Chicago, one of the attor-
 neys for the Standard Oil company in
 the recent trial, which resulted in the
 levying against it by Judge Landis of the
 fine of s29,24O.0OO.
 Judge Landis, in instructing the jury, declared that he desired that President
 Moffett be given every opportunity to in
 form the jury regarding illegal shipments by either persons or corporations. After receiving the report of the jury today the
 judge dismissed its members without comment, other than thanking them.
 The report declares from a careful and thorough investigation 1t appeared that while the statement credited to MT.
 Moffett was prepared largely by MT. Moritz Rosenthal, one of the attorneys for the Standard oil company in the case of the United States vs. the Standard oil company, it was given out by MT. Moffett over his name as his own state ment."
 It further appeared that MT. Moffett had no knowledge whatever of any facts re- latng to shipments of property from Whiting, Ind, Hegew'sch and South Chi cago, in Illinois, over the Chicago and Alton, or any other road by any shipper other than the Standard Oil company; l that he had not been at any one of these | places during the last six years, and | that the statement in question was based l entirely upon the testimony of F. S. Hol- lands, employe of the Chicago and Alton, given at the Standard Oil trial.
 MT. Moffett stated that so far as he knew the only information in the pos session of any one in connection with the Standard Oil company was that dis closed in the case against the Standard oil company, and he was authorized to state that the only information possessed
 by Mir. Rosenthal, who prepared the state
 ment, was contained in the record of
 the case that was tried here against the Standard Oil.
 MT. Moffett was unable to give to the
 grand jury a single specific instance.
 aside from the Standard oil company.
 in which rates had been quoted from the
 points named for shipments in interstate
 commerce at less than the rates in tariffs
 lawfully issued by the railroad com
 pany and filed with the interstate com
 merce commission. He was also unable to give to the grand jury information as to the shipment of single pound of freight, except by the Standard Oil com
 pany, from the points in question at a rate less than the lawfully published and filed rate. He assured the grand jury that neither MT Rosenthal nor any one else connected with the Standard Oil company of Indiana, of whom he knew, could give to the grand jury any infor- nation, except that gathered from the Standard oil trial as to the shipments of property in interstate commerce from the points named, except by the Standard oil company at less than the rates named in the tariffs lawfully on file with the interstate commerce commission.
 The grand jury, after briefly reviewing the testimony of Hollands, which was also barren of results, declared that 1t
 was of the opinion that the statements
 contained in the pamphlet that was sent broadcast over the country by MT. Moi felt were entirely without foundation.