The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-11-25
THAT OIL DEAL
n Oklahoma Comes Out In Full
at Last.
TuE PEOPLE SCO0PED

eft Of the Standard Oil US
CHARGED by Governor Haskell
During the Late Presidential Cant
psisn and Denied by Teddy.
Washi2 2gto1, Nov. 19.-The story
~ how the Prairie OF! Company, g
snhsidiary concern to the Standard
OIL, got is privileges IN Oklahona
were told ~ the recent campaign ~
only a few newspapers t2as Wefe
supporting the Democratic ticket:
Hut again recently in the Herald 0:
shis city appeared full story OF no"
this Standard Oh concern sos fe7
privileges in Oklahoma, contrary u
law. and In special way. VITA
snecial concessions which hsve been
denied other companies. This IS tae
story which the Herald publishes
"BelatsS intelligence as to IN
whereabouts OF az important repor:
written by Ethan Allen hitchcock.
while he was secretary CT the Ia
-a-for in President Roosevelts eef:-
met. came 70 hand yesterday.
This report was the one submit
Ted to the president by 4r. Hleca-
cocs in 1904. setting forth bis Tea-
sons for denying the application O.!
tha Prarie Oil and Gas Company .
standard Oh subsidiary, or perm:
70 construct pipe line 10 the 1ne:;
Territory Of Oklahoma.
The pipe line franchise WAS
e-op+ad nevertheless, but is did no,
become generally known Until! lsse
sp the recent political campaign tnal
This course was authorized BY pres.
dent Roosevelt himself, who owe
r,,Ad the action OF his secretary OF
+hs ;nterior against Mr.. HITCHCOCK
unconpromising resistance.
The fact has come TO light tha'
the present repository Of Secretary
Eircheock's report is the department
az Justice. The document las been
wing there for several years, ano
nothing but a resolution OF congress-
will cause it to be made public. =
nsc Of national deDutatioR aao
crobity said yesterday:
"sves, the report IS there oc'
President Roosevelt dare not lot lt'
contents be known.
That Mr.. Hiteheock's ADVERSE as
eisien is in the department or 1ls1lee
instead Of IN the aEes Of the Nh!t'
House, OF interior department. IL
6rcas the surmise that the seeretar!
advised that criminal proceedings o.
brought against certain nsn connect
ed with the oil and gas deal IN os'
1ahona, but there IS 40 specln'
authority for this statement.
Men Of national political renow1
we're interes-ed in the oil aRd ga
saassse, and ls happened that $Ael:
annlieasion for 8 pipe line, which wa
so stcutIy resisted By Seeretar!
Hitchcock, came along st the TIM
when Ir. Roosevelt was seekln.
nomination and election to the Dresl
dency.
..Nr. Hitchcock has resisted tn
ic,rortunisiss OF the Standard, ana
finally, il March, 1894, statut
passed by congress direotins; aim t
make regulations for permits 1o'
pipe lines. The regulations pro
posed by Secretary Hitchcock wer'
considered TOO drastic to suit I'M
Standard Oh people, and finally Gov
Frank Higgins OF New York v7ot'
a letter to the president IN IN
interest OF D. W. Barusdals. tn
Pittsburg agent Of the Ssancar!
asking the president to ocde! Sec
retary Hitchcock to grant the permit
The president did so, but tn
secretary yielded reluctantly. A few
months later Mr.. Hitchcock printe;
volume OF the private hearing
held before his department on appil
caaons for pipe line permits. l.
the documents he gave copy o
Gov. Higgins letter.
when the volume appeared
created some excitement. 1t was l.
the Hughes-Eearst subernatorl
campaign. The president was iRdis
naot at NJ. Hitchcock for giving ou
the Higgins letter. dsclaiming taa.
it was the property Of ths executive
Ike ordered the copies Of Secrs'
tary Hirhcock's printed docuHen
to bs called IN and shipped to Oyster
Bay, where Mr.. Roosevelt was the1
Sav:ng. There was some Excitement
over the order, ead agents from the
Interior department were busy visit
isg newspaper bureaus AID law Of
fees IN Washington in quest OF the
Objectionable document.
The regulations made BY Ssere-
tary Hitchcock IN December, 1905.
following the favors shown to the
Standard Oil Company by the presi
Geot IL 1904, were more drastic FROM
the Standard viewpoint than ary-
thing that had preceded them. IL
the congressional carp.ign preeed-
ing Presiden. Roosevelt had promls-
Cd certain Western senator, whc
was aggrfaved at Mr.. Hitchcock, that
hs would remove him the day after
election.
"On Wednesday, the day Otter
election. the president issued bu:-
lotin from the White House, in which
i.e virtually fulfilled his promise to
the Western senator announcing the
forthcoming retirement Of Mr.. Hitch
cock, but explaining that the secre-
tary was going out Of his own vo-
litioD and much against the presi-
dents wishes.
The regulations of December,
1906, were promulgated on the
event of Secretary Fitchcock's re-
tirement from Office. The Standard
Oil Company defed the interior de-
nartmant and refused to aDDly for