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STANDARD OIL
TO Be FINED
Judge Lands Fixes August
5 as the Date for
Passing Sen
tence.
FORMAL STATEMENT
FOR THE COMPANY
Attorneys for the Alleged
Trust Decline to Sub
nit Further Evil
dence.

Chicago, July s. The attorneys for
Standard Oil company in the United
States district court to-day declined to
submit any further evidence in the
matter of the relations Of the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey to the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, or in
mitigation of the offence of which the
latter was convicted. Judge Lands on
Saturday, after concluding his exam
ination of John D. Rockefeller and 9TH
er officials Of the New Jersey corpora
ton, notified the attorneys of the com
pany that he would listen to anything
they had to present. The judge, after
the announcement of the attorneys to-
day, said that the sentence would be
passed on the Standard Oil company Of
Indiana on August 8.
When the attorneys appeared in
court Judge Lands said to them:
"Have you anything to offer in this
case prior to the entering Of Anal or
der?"
I'VE have a formal statement to
make said Mr.. Rosenthal, who then
read It, substantially as follows:
''In answer to the court as to whether
the defendant desires to offer any evil
dence tending to show that the defend
ant, or the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey never violated the inter
state commerce law before, and appear
ing now for the purpose of answering
this inquiry and denying the jurisdic-
ton Of the court In the premises, and
contendlng that this entire inquiry is
beyond the legal power of the court,
the defendant still insisting that the
record In this case shows that it is in
nocent of the offences charged in the
indictment, the defendant desires to
say:
There are in the record no sugges-
tons that this defendant ever before
was charged with violation of the inter
state commerce law.
For this defendant now to assert IT'S
innocence of matters that it is not
charged with, or to attempt to shaw
that it has been innocent of wrong do
ing in connection with matters outside
OF the record Of this case, would pre-
sent situation unheard of in Anglo
Saxon Jurisprudence"
The statement claimed at some
length that the court has no right to
go outside the record of the case In
considering the penalty to be meted out
and concluded as followF
IF the occasion shall ever arise in an
appropriate proceeding where this de-
PENDANT can, without any waiver Of It's
legal rights, subject itself to the ques-
ton of its having heretofore violated
the Interstate commerce law, It will
certainly appear that since the passage
of that law there has been no violation
of its provisions by either the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey or the
Standard OIL company Of Indiana"
Throughout the reading Of the state
ment Judge lands listened with much
interest, and when It was concluded,
said abruptly:
"The final order in this case will be
entered Saturday, August 8. Cali the
next case"
]. D. Archbold, vice president of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey;
H. e. Felton, president Of the Union
Tank line; c. NJ Pratt, secretary OF
the Standard Oil company, and F. @
Barstow, the assistant treasurer, were
in court during the proceedings,
With the exception Of John d. Rookie
Teller and his brother William, all the
witnesses who were eubpoenaed re-
NAMED in Chicago until to-day tc