Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-04
TRUST PROBE BRINGS
OUT INFORMATION
Bureau of Corporations Co.
operating With District AT
torney's Office to Throw
Light on Standard
Dealings

Cleveland, July marshal Chan.
dler and Deputy Schwenter again visit
ed Forest Hill this morning. Chan
dler, after remaining an hour about
the Rockefeller residence, left, leaving
the deputy on guard with a subpoena
for Rockefeller. 1t was inferred the
marshal still believes Rockefeller Is
at Forest Hill, the statements to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Primed With New Facts.
When the Standard oil men who
| have been landed are placed on the
witness stand and questioned as to the
pany and the Indiana concern they
will find District Attorney Sims for
titled with facts recently discovered
by the authorities in Washington. AL
ready the bureau Of corporations has
reported that the Standard Oil COM
pany Of Indiana is one Of the most i'm
portant subsidiary concerns of the oil
trust.
ut owns immense refineries at
Whiting, Ind" the bureau says, land
| large new refining plant at Sugar
| Creek, Mo. The company also engages
III the marketing Of oil, its distributing
| territory comprising extensive areas IN
the middle west and northwest"
Will Report on Prices and Profits.
1 AUOuC Tile last VI lIllS HlOllIll SOLl-
| missioner of Corporations Smith will
issue the third section Of the report Of
| his bureau on it's Standard Oil inves-
tigation. This section will deal with
prices and profits. 1t has BEEN COM
piled with the utmost care, agents Of
the bureau having gone to original
sources In order to ascertain the ex-
.penses Of the Standard, it's output, and
| the profits it has made.
\ IF the officials OF the Standard OIL
try to hide the truth it will not be a
difficult matter for District Attorney
Sims to furnish the court with the
facts. In preparing section Of the
profits Of the Standard agents of Com
missioner Smith have not only looked
into the local field. but have made in
vestigations abroad.
Following the publication Of this
section, Commissioner Smith will pre-
pare for the issue of reports on the
way the Standard has gained contt o1
Of the California and mid continental
fields, and exposure Of the trust, will
be completed with description of It's
operations in foreign lands, including
a statement Of it's relations with the
oil concerns Of Russia and other coun-
tries. All these sections will confirm
the public belief that the Standard has
charged monopoly prices which on the
average for the period as a whole are
much higher than would exist under d
competitive regime.
Fines May Roach Millions.
The government is keen to have tho
Standard OIL magnates appear before
Judge lands, not only because the
court will then be able to decide upon
an equitable fine, but also because the
facts brought out in the proceedings
will be Of value in other rebate cases
pending against the trust. Besides the
suit filed In Chicago proceedings wera
instituted some time ago in the west
ern district of Tennessee and in the
western district Of New York against
subsidiary concerns Of the Standard.
4 charging them with granting and re-
ceiving illegal rebates from railroads,
The Chicago case is the biggest, in
volving GAPS counts
In the western district of Tennessee
the grand jury found one indictment
, containing 1924 counts. and the grand
jury in New York returned five sep
arate indictments with total Of 146
counts. The maximum fines possible
in Tennessee and New York aggregate
: S33, 400, 900, and the minimum $1,670, 900
, In Chicago the minimum penalty for
conviction on all counts would be So
428,0o0 and the minimum 1923, $780, 900.
!, It is evident that Judge Lands pro-
poses to impose a fine which will con-
stitute severe punishment for viola
: tions Of the law.
) Some time ago when the bureau 81
: corporations began its investigation In
, to the operations of the trust two rep
resentatives Of the Standard came to
!. Washington and denied that rebates
had ever been received or allowed
When the bureau confronted these
men with the railroad documents
showing that rebates had been granted
] and accepted they told officials of the
. bureau with a defiant air to go ahead
and do their worst. The magnates who
> have been served with subpoenas Of
who are evading process servers I'M
I doubtedly are not now in the same
g frame of mind.
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9 the first mother to Edna. But dom
r believe any of the girls has sufficien
/. right to Edna to take her all by hersel
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