The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-01

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ot ,UcN Ease ~ulloNonde4it NNnNetns
has haeH ouc ut the 9ntaltt aeteNttNr
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atlNtsrt bus h4blitD.lN rttl0eri tne
'pllcv il tlis(. tts councillors tn \
lts }tiges st Ntaet pl7,gs Mhen vpt1-
po(ttio.l Was dpsteoNc,i H. advanced or
restored former prices
restored toruvr prtVes. The standard
has s0ld 1itteront grades OF oil at dit-
terent prices trotu the same barrrl le
has paid employees or independent ell
companies fer information as to tho
business OF those competitors and has
paid employees of industrial companies
to secure the addition OF It's oil in
prefereGe 10 that OF It's competitors.
1t hu sfollewed every barrel ot indie
pendent oil TO its destination. lt-
agents are Instructed to secure Gus
TONER'S 1T amy stcrifice. 1t has lamp
cred with the oil inspectors in differ
ent states. The laws of several states
concerning the Inspection OF OIL are
si%nsularly detective. and this has beer
turned to protit by the standard
As to Remedies.
ON the question OF remedies the re-
port says:
More than anything else tho pipe
line has contributed To the standard
oil monopoly. and Its supremacy must
continue until its rivals enjoy the
same transportation facilities. The
amended act to regulate commerce
makes the existing pipe lines common
carriers subject to that act. and the
power to prescribe just and reasonable
rates, regulations and practices, after
complaint and hearing. is conferred up
on the commission. But the pipe Inns
tariffs filed with the commission are
o1jnyaI 10 hA OF yAnL ortJto1 o1lrnn q pa
to the Independent operators. The
commission can only act upon these
schedules after complaint has been
made challenging such reference rates,
regulations or practices"
Some complaints are now pending.
How far the amended act will provo
adequate to the correction of such in
justice as now exists in respect to his
traffic remains to be seen.
Since in the past petroleum rates
have not always been established to
promote. but often to check traffic. and
the tariffs are more or less permeated
with determinations In favor of the
Standard OH company. having been
built up during q series of years In that
view, it may be that his discrimina-
ton will never be eliminated by II
process of complaint against a specific
rate or practice. Judging by the past,
Determinations as to this traffic may
arise more frequently than those now
existing car be routed out by that
method. AS to no other Improvement
traffic is there an approach to the
monopoly of the Standard OH In that
of oil. Under this condition 1t may be-
come necessary to the u%prooting of es-
tablished wrongs and the prevention OF
others that the government shall fix
in the first instance the rates and reg
ulations for the transportation of this
traffic. This method has been adopted
by the legislature of one state. 1t prob
ably will be found necessary to dis
associate in the case of oil, as In that
of other commodities. the function of
transportation from that of production
and distribution. What other remedies
in addition TO those already provided
1T ma be necessary to prescribe % be
better determined in the near futur by
the results of experience in administer,
ing the present law"