The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-26
Town Created to Furnish Basis for Fixing Oil Piping
 Tariffs
INDEPENDENT COMPANIES
 ALTOGETHER SHUT OUT
Testimony Shows That Control of the Corsicana oil Company of Texas Has Always Been With the
 Standard Oil Go.

New York, September 25.-some interest," ing evidence that lay almost hidden in q vouminous schedule of oil tariffs sub- mitted to the interstate commerce com mission by the Standard oil company was unfolded today at the hearing of the fed eral suit against the so-called trust, when Calvin M. Payne. vice president of tho National Transit company, took the wit ness stand to tell about the various pipe lines of the oil combine over which he has general supervision. The schedule shows that tariffs for the transportation of crude oil by the Standards pipe line are fixed at Unionville, which is the state line between New York and New Jersey, and centerbridge. which is located on the New Jersey Pennsylvania state line
 Frank B. Kellogg. conducting the fed cral action. asked Mir. Payne of Union- vile did not spring into existence in 1s1G. when the Hepburn bill, which provides that common carriers must publish tariff schedules. became law
 MT. Payne testified that Unionvlle loomed up geographically in the summer of 1906. while he abroad. The gov ernments counsel further developed that al Unionville the pipes of the National Transit company, carrying oil from os- lean, N. r., and other western points, connected with the pipe line of the Stand- ard Oil company of New Jersey. and that at Centerbrigde the line carrying the ols of the Eureka Pipe Line company the Buckeye Line company, the Southern Pennsylvania Pipe Line company and tho National Transit company from Lima, o, 10 the seaboard connects with the pile nf la of Jersey
 Mr. Payne said that as lines of these companies ended at ulnionville and Cen terbridge, the tariff schedules were fixed for those points MT. Kellogg sought tu show that no independent company cou1 send oil to the seaboard over those lines because rates could not be obtained from those points to the seaboard MT. Kellogg said the Standard would not publish rates on it's line through New Jersey. and as fl consequence independents were shut off from tidewater.
 The control of the Corsieana Refining company of Texas, which the govern ment in it's bill of complaint alleges IS really owned by the Standard. was in qured into today. The governments counsel believes that he obtained from Henry G. Folger. Jr., and Calvin NJ. Payne. two of the witnesses. testimony in support of the government contention. Both witnesses testified that they held of fieial positions with the Standard. and that from 1898. when the refinery was built. to 1906, they had the stock of tho company for the National Transit eom- pany and In 1906 they purchased the Corsicaua stock by q verbal agreement with John D. Archbold to pay for 1t in the following year. Mir. Folger testified that the management of the Corscana eom- pany was continued along the same lines as before the sale by the National Tran sit company subsidiary of the Standard oil company
 The oil hearings will be adjourned after Friday over the early part of next week. to permit John c. Mllburn, counsel Ter the defcudants to attend the unveilng of ihe Mckinley monument in Canton, o.