Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-21

WILL BE CONTINUED MONDAY.
Enormous Earning Power OF Stand
ara Oil Company ShoWn--Snr-
plus said 10 be $500 900 900.

plus Said 10 be S300,OOO.OOO.
New York, Nov 20.--For more tnan
five hours today John ID. Hockcfelier,
witness for the defense in the GOV
ernnent suit to dissolve the Standafa
oil company, faced an unceasing IRE OF
m,estiors from the federal counsel,
Frank Is. Kellogg. and when adjourn
;nent was taken until Monday the nea''
"a of the oil combine was stu being cross
a. examined on the charge that the con-
many in its early days accepted rebates
40 the disadvantage of its rivals. MI.
Jorkefeller's examination VIII
oiobablv not be concluded until lats
TUESDAY. ana Mr.. Kellogg made it
Known that lie, would question Mr..
Rockefeller on every detail of the com
& pany's business.
The enormous earning power of the
oil combination was sharply brought
g@out IN today's hearing when Mr.. Rookie
feller after stating that tho standard
had paid dividends amounting TO s4o,T
100000 in 1907, said 1T had earned az
much more and that this was added TO
the conlpnny's surplus. winch was SUI , :
cd by the governments counsel 10 Pc
s3DoODO 600 II was further declared "
y Nh. Kellogg that the company w1thlh
.5gthc last eight years had earned nearly
half a billion dollars.
Is TALKS TO REPORTERS.
During the monday internission. MI.
Rockefeller took to task the newspaper
reporters for printing his nAaXilns on
the care of the stomach.
5 "Don't you boys think you vioiateh
my confidence ~ he asked with Il quizz-
Zeal smile II meant what said for
your special benefit. But suppose the
advice is good for everybody, SO don't
3 case very much.
Mr.. Rockefeller then asked one of inc
artists who had been sketchlng lllm 70
let him see the picture.
81 wish had your talent, SAID the
richest man in the world. gazing ear
Mt the portrait OF himself
ssE} II wish / had yours quickly re-
3 sponded the artist.
a Mr.. Rockefeller laughed heartily and
n extended his hand. which the artist
shook the Standard Oil man saying,
2 eve ought to pool Issues.
After recess Mr.. Kellogg took up with
Mi. Rockefeller the rates for trans
portation or oil prior to the construc-
lion nf the trunk pipe lines. Prior
TO 1881, Mi. Rockefeller said, all OF
the crude oil shipped to the seaboaru
+ ;bv the standard Oil company was car
l.ied by railroads. Henry NJ. Flaglcr
and John d. Archbold had much to do
with making tie transportation ar
ranseiments. but William Rockefeller
did not take SO important a part in It.
sajdGthe witness Mr. Rockefeller said
he had no doubt that the state of Penn
Il sytrania brought suit in 1873 to Dust
The United Pipe Line from that state
OH the ground that 1t was in conspiracy
With the PENNSYLVANIA railroad to OBJ
tain preferential r,ttes and drawbacks
4 He did not recall the names of the par
tiles to an agreement for the dismlssal
|, OF tl1e suit
~ .Don't you recall that Mr.. Cassatt
testified that the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
paid rebates to the Standard OIL. the
Il American Transfer company and tbs
United Pipe Line company? asked Mr.
Kellogg.
..Mr. cassatt may have testified 70 70
these rebates. I don't know about It,
as had nothing to dowith the pay
5 ment. This was a number OF years
afterSI had retired from participation
i5in freight arrangements.
Mr. Rockefeller said he signed the
!
missed. but did not recall the details
although lie remembered there waa
some trouble about freight rates
COULDN'T RECALL SUIT.
NIr,. Kellogg then read the testimony
of A. j. Cassatt in the case brought
by the state of Pennsylvania against
the Pennsylvania railroad, in which
Mr.. Cassatt said that the PENNSYLVANIA
agreed to pay the 10 per cent rebate
to the Standard because II might d.
Z vert its trade to other lines. Mr., Rookie
Teller said he did not recall Mr.. Cas-
salts testimony, nor did he remember
the construction of5an independent pipe
line for those refiners who are unable
TO obtain the same rate from the Penn
s sylvana railroad as did the Standard
do you mean to say that You don't
recall the suit against your company
for receiving rebates2"
II may have had the knowledge ut
the time
Mr.. Kellogg then called the witness
attention to Il terminal agreement by
h which he said the standard obtained
the use of the terminals of the Erie
and New York Central railroads, and
which he said provided that all the oil
transported by any person over tha
New York Central railroad could be
delivered to the terminals provided by
the Standard at Hunters Ioiht.
Mr. Kellogg asked If warehouse
charges were made against the indie
pendent oil refiners at these terminals
Mr.. Rockefeller said they We're made,
Tie did not recall whether the other
railroads paid the New York Central
a certain percentage for warehousing
the oil they carried.
Replying to other questions, MIR.
Rockefeller said he could not recall
whether the Standard Oil company
controlled the National Storage COM
pany, which was the terminal of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Comnuni-
paw. or whether he used these oil ire
nlinals from 1876 to 1881. He could not