The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-15
NEW SIDE LIGHTS
 ON O|L BUSINESS Vice President of Kentucky
 Company TestifeS IMPORTANT FACTS GIVEN
MT. Kellogg, the Government Attorney, Will Next Call William c. Rocke- feller-Hearing May Be Ad-
 journed for Weeks.

New York, October 14.-Hampton G. Westcott. vice president of the Stand ard oil company of Kentucky. testified today in the hearing of the federal suit against the oil combine that in sev- i eral of the southern states the Stand ard had found it expedient to sell much : of its products through companies which the public believed to be inde- pendent. The practice of selling , through so-called independent com panies. which were owned by the com bine, was discontinued two years ago according to Mr. Westcott.
 Mir Kellogg, counsel for the gov ernment. drew from the witness that the Standard Oil company of Kentucky, | which acts as selling agents of oil in Kentucky Georgia, Mississippi, Louis 1 iana Tennessee and Alabama, had pur- chased numerous small independent 1 selling companies and through many | of them sold oil to the consumer. Some | of the plants of these independents
 were dismantled and the business taken | over by the Standard.
 MT. Westcott threw side light on a business department of the Standard
 concerning which the federal counsel | has been seeking information since the beginning of the inquiry. 1 Mir. Westcott testified that each | month the main office of the Standard , oil company of Kentucky at Covington ! sent to him not only the reports of , the business operations of the Stand
 ard, but statements concerning freight ! shipments and sale of oil by all com
 petitors- These statements, according ] to MT. Westcott. gave the name of the consignor, the consignee. the amount
 of oil shipped and any Information that might be available. Mr. Westcott said
 that after examining these statements 1 he filed them with the statistical de- | partment in the Standard office in the 1 city. This. MT. Westcott said, was in 1 charge of W. F. Bemis, who kept com 1 pilations and records of the business l of both the Standard and it's competi- | tors.
 MT. Kellogg stated tonight that he l eXpecte to call William G. Rockefel-
 Ter, assistant treasurer of the Standard | oil company of New Jersey, to the
 stand when the hearing is resumed 1 tomorrow.
 It is believed that at the end of this 1 week the hearing will be adjourned
 for several weeks to give MT. --ellogg an opportunity to go carefully over
 the mass of information he has ob- tained since the hearings began.
 Testimony on Loans.
 Alfred II. Brainard comptroller of the
 Standard oil company of New Jersey anI many of it's subsidiary companies
 was questioned today when called as a
 witness in the governments suit against
 the oil combine concerning large loans
 made to James Mcdonald by the Anglo American oil company.
 Testimony was given last week that the | Southern Pipe Line company had loaned over S2O. 100000 to Mcdonald and that the
 books of the company showed that 1t had never been paid back. MT. Brainard said that he was the American secretary of the Anglo-American company, and that MT Mcdonald was the managing director in London He was asked concerning loans made by the Anglo-American com pany of s2,175,O06 in 1905 and $1,427sO7 in 1906 to Mir. Mcdonald Mr. Bralnard said
 that the loans had been ordered from London and that was all he knew about | them.
 | "Is it not fact that this money was furnished to MT. Mcdonald that he might hold either the Manhattan oil company of Ohio or the Security oil company Of l Texas?''
 q do not know" replied MT. Brainard. l Mir. Brainard was asked concerning the loans made by the Southern Pipe Jine company of over s2oO0o00O to P. S. Trainor.
 Mr. Brainard said that it was likely | that Mr TraInor reported his losses to the Standard oil company of New York and that the Southern Pipe Line company re- imbursed the Standard for the losses and charged the amounts to the account of P. s. Trainor.
 Mir. Brainard said he thought these losses were incurred by MT. Trainor in the purchase and sale of oil.
 MT. Brainard said he knew nothing about the loans made by the Standard Oil company of New York aggregating s32, ,O61, ,62O in 1906 to interests other than Standard OIL
 He said that account came to him from the treasurer's office William c. Rocke- feller might know something of the loans, the witness said.
 MT. Brainard said he did not know
 where the transfer books of the liquldat- ing trustees, which Mir Kellogg has been desirous of obtaining, could be found. 1 Mir Brainard was excused and Hamp- ton G. westcott. first vice president of ;the Standard oil Company of Kentucky, j-took the stand.