Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-09-26
PIPE Line RATES
Standard Oil Company Refuses t.
Name Tariff Through
New Jersey.
SHUTS INDEPENDENTS Out


New York, Sept. 26.-Some interest
Ing evidenuce that lay almost bidder
in voluminous schedule Of oil tariff
submitted To the Interstate commerce
by the Standard OIL company was un
folded Wednesday at the hearing o.
the federal suit against the so-calleG
oil trust, when Calvin N. Payne, vice
president Of the National Trust com
pany, took the witness stand to tel
about the various pipe lines of the oil
combine over which he has supervis
ion. The schedule shows that tariffs
for the transportation of crude oil by
the Standards pipe lines are fixed al
Unionville which is on the state line
between New York and New Jersey
and Center Ridge, located on the New
Jersey-Pennsylvania state line. Franz
B. Kellogg, conducting the federal &C
ton, asked Mr.. Payne If Unionvillt
did not spring into existence in 1906
when the Hepburn bill, which pro
vides that common carriers must pub
lish tariff schedules, became law
Mr.. Payne testified that Unionville
doomed geographically in the summer
Of 1906 while he was abroad. The
governments counsel further devel
oped that at Unionville the pipes Of
the National Transit company, carry
ing oil from Olean, N. Y, and Other
western points, connected with the
pipe line of the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey, and that at Cen.
terbridge the pipe line carrying the
oils Of the Eureka Pipe Line company
the Buckeye Pipe Line company, the
Southern Pennsylvania Pipe Line com
pany and the National Transit com,
pany, from Lima, Ohio, to the sea
board, connects with the pipe line OF
the Standard Oil company of New Jer
5ey. Mr.. Payne said that as the lines
Of those companies ended at Union
Vile and Centerbridge, the tariff
schedules are fixed for those points
Mr.. Kellogg sought to show that nc
could send oil to the sea
BOARD over those lines, because rates
could not be obtained from those
points to the seaboard. Mr.. Kellogg
laid the Standard would not publish
'ates on It's line through New Jersey
Ind as a consequence independents
we're shut of from tidewater.
The control of the Corsicana Rein
ng company OF Texas, which the gov
Gpment, in its bill of complaint, al
eyes is really owned by the Standard,
vas inquired into Wednesday, and the
overnments counsel believes that he
btained from Henry G. Folger, Jr..
nd Calvin M. Payne, two of the wit
esses, testimony in support of the
contention. Both wit
esses testified that they held official
ositions with the Standard and that !,
ON 1896, when the refinery was
uilt, to 1906, they held the stock OF .
le company for the National Transit
and in 1906 they purchased 7
lie Corsicana stock by a verbal agree.
ent with John d, Archbold to pay
# 1t in ten years. Mr. Folger testi
ed that the management OF the Cor II
cana company was continued along
10 same lines then as before the sale
Z the National Transit company, q
Ibsidiary Of the Standard Oil com
my.
The oil hearings will be adjourned
ter Friday over the early part Of al
,xt week tc5permit John @. Milburn
unset for the defendants, to attend :.
e unwilling of the Mckinley monu a,
emit in Canton, Ohio. Il