Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
STANDARD CORNERED
Forced to Confess CompuIsion
of Dealers.
MORE REVELATIONS HOPED
William G. Rockefeller May Testify at
Mondays Session.
TO INCREASE CHICAGO BOND
District Attorney Thinks S4,ooo,ooo
Too Small in Light of New
York Disclosures.
TO INCREASE CHICAGO BOND


Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, September 2l.-When the
taking of testimony in the governments
suit to dissolve the Standard Oh Company
of New Jersey is resumed Monday, there
is every reason to believe that William
G. Rockefeller will at last take the witt
ness stand 1t was planned by Frank h.
Kellogg, chief counsel for the government,
to have Mr.. Rockefeller testify yesterday,
but the illness of Attorney Rosenthal in
fluenced John G. Milburn, for the defense,
to ask that no new witnesses be examined
until Monday At the beginning of Mon
days session Wesley H. Tilford, who has
sat in the witness chair for the past two
days, may be taken in hand for the de-
fense by Mr.. Milburn. There is a great
deal in his testimony that both the wit
ness and the Standard Oil attorneys would
like to have expressed in somewhat more
euphemistic terms and some matters OF
detail by way of explanation Mr.. Tilford
wishes to supply, were omitted.
Search for Old Documents.
BY Monday the government accountants.
who have been ranging over what is left Of
the old Standard Oil trust and the liquidat-
ing trusts books, besides inspecting the
current accounts of the company, should be
in the possession of enough facts TO make
Mr.. Kellogg's examination of witnesses OF
great interest. If they can find all the
| documents relating to the period OF licuida-
ton, the minutes of subsidiary companies
| and certain contracts, which are believed
| to exist, and which are said to be clearly
| in restraint of trade, they Will help the
1 tor, hon lJh Mr Il al
| and his assistants, c. b. Morrison and 7.
| H. Graves, believe that their case is al
ready more than established.
1 Nevertheless, the work of the accountants
is iikefy to prove extremely valuable in con-
| troverting testimony. They have already
| indicated in preliminary report that the
profits of the Standard Oil Company of
| New Jersey have reached figure approxi-
mating $1,000O000c0.
| Control Of Export Trade.
| For the first time since the hearing be-
| gan here in New York 4 witness yesterday
| admitted the truth of some of the charges
| against the company. Through the search
ing questions of Attorney Kellogg, Wesley
| II. Tilford, who was on the stand, was
forced to admit that the Standard Oil Com
pany controlled the entire oil export busi-
| ness of the United States, with the excep-
| ton of an inconsiderable volume handled
| by the Gulf Refining Company. and that IL
| fixed the price at which the oil was bought
| from the Independent refneries and sold to
| the old brokers This price made
| satisfactory to the independent refineries by
| the simple expedient of cutting down the
amount of crude oil supplied to them
| through the Standards pipe lines whenever
| they became recalcitrant or attempted to
| sell their export product through other COM
panes than those affiliated with the Stand
| ard Oil.
| A great deal of surprise was expressed by
| everybody except the Standard Oil attor-
| neys yesterday when, from a partial list
| of the stockholders of the New Jersey cor
poration which was made public, 1t was
| seen that a wide difference existed between
| the popular estimate Of the proportion of
/ stock held by various well-known finan-
ciers and the actual facts.
Will Ask for Larger Bond.
| Special Dispatch TO The Star.
| CHICAGO, September 21.-Fo.lowing the
| disclosures in New York at the Standard
Oil hearing, District Attorney Sims has de-
| cided to ask a larger bond than that
| granted the other day by Judge Grosscup.
| MIR. Sims believes the financial condition
| of the Standard OIL Company OF Indiana
| was misrepresented to Judge GrosRcup
| and that if the company's obligation should