The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-25

pushed Mr. Rockefeller into an elevator
The elevator shot downward, carrying
Mr.. Rockefeller out of the mans reach.
The process server hurried to the street
but MI. Rockefeller had disappeared. The
man would not say whether the suit In
which he wished TO subpoena Mr.. Rock
efeller was a civil action or one con-
nected with the present case
Rockefeller Was Late.
For the first time since he has been
on the witness stand atsthis hearing Mr.
Rockefeller was a little late in arriving
today. Frank Il. Kellogg. the govern
ment's special assistant attorney gen.
eral, resumed his cross-examination
taking up the organization of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
where he ended ii yesterday. Mr.. KEEL
logg read what he said was a list OF
stocks obtained by that company In
1899 for which it had exchanged its own
shares.
He said that 442, 1917 out of a total OF
9SS. 1888 shares first issued We're in the
name of John d. Rockefeller. Mr.
Rockefeller said he did not own so much
stock as that, but did own 256, S54 shares
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey at that time and that he accept
ed the other stock and distributed it to
the proper stockholders. He added that
| Standard Oil trust exchanged them for
stock in the Standard Oil company of
| New Jersey rather than accept shares
of the various subsidiary companies.
81 turned over my trust certificates 10
the liquidating trustees" said Mr..
Rockefeller. land obtained a paper on
which l secured shares in the con-
stituent companies. which 1 turned In
to the Standard Oil company of New
jersey
Mr.. Rockefeller declared that he never
acted as an attorney for any one in this
process of liquidation.
| Mr. Kellogg stated that Henry NJ.
Flagler at first received $4,000 shares
and later 79,430 shares additional. Mr..
| Rockefeller said he thought Mr.. Flagler
did not own any such amount of stock,
but he could not say whether he accept
ed it for purposes of distribution.
Memory Again Faulty.
Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he en-
| tered a contract with Schofield, Schur-
mer and Teagle in 1876 whereby the firm
agreed to limit the business of its re-
| finery in consideration of certain pay
ments by the Standard. Mr.. Rockefeller
replied that such contract mad Deen
entered into, but he did not recall its pro-
visions.
did the Standard bring a suit in Ohio
/ in 1880 against Schofield, Schurmer &
| Tedgie to prevent It's refining over oO,VU
| barrels of crude oil year and to pre-
vent its acquiring an interest in Buff
| falo refinery?
There was some litigation about the
| refining of oil. | recall nothing about
the Buffalo refinery"
Did you not personally make an ap-
| plication for an order restraining them
from exceeding their production limit
and to prevent them building a refinery
| in BuffalO?''
AS president of the Standard Oil COM
pany il was proper for me to sign such
| an affidavit about the production OF oil
| being exceeded by the company.
Don't you recall that in the answer of
| Schofield, Schurmer & Teagle they set
| up the claims that the Standard was try
ing to obtain monopoly of the refining
| business in Ohio and that this agreement
was part of the conspiracy to such an
end?'
Il could not state from my recollec-
ton, but assume that they probably aid
not fail to say everything they could
! think.
Mr.. Rockefeller was told that Virgil P.
Kline who afterward had been a Stand
| ard Oil attorney, was then counsel for
| Schofield, Schurmer & Teagle.
We'll, they had a very capable attor-
ney," said Mr.. Rockefeller.
The Last Affidavit.
The witness said in reply to other ques-
! tons that a similar contract was made
with the Pioneer Oil company, but he
| the contract that the Standard operated
! refineries only in Cleveland and Bayonne-
! He understood, he said, that he made an
| affidavit in connection with this contract
to the effect that the Standard Oil COM
pany of Ohio had not owned any stock
| of any railroads pipe line.
You were trying to give the impress
sion at that time that the large number
of companies you had acquired an in
terest in were not controlled by the
Standard Oil company of Ohio?
| 81 tried to give the status at that time"
| Mr. kellogg asked the witness If he
had made it known to any one at that
time that he had an interest in the com
panes included in the trust agreement
| of 1879 and II il was not fact that this
| agreement was kept secret while he was
combining the companies
It cannot say, but l think il must have
been known to a number of people out
side of those who signed it, replied Mr..
| Rockefeller.
rs it not a fact that Mr. Archbold. Mr..
Flagler and others in 1875 and later made
! affidavits and public statement that the
Standard Oil company of Ohio had no
interest in these subsidiary companies?'
Il cannot say anything about state
ments they have made"
Failed to Remember.
Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he had
not made an affidavit that the Standard
! had made contracts with railroads where
by the Standard had obtained rebates for
guaranteeing a certain volume of oil. He
did not recall.
Didn't the officers and agents of the
Standard Oil company of Ohio at that
time control majority OF the stocks of
| the subsidiary companies with the idea
| of concealing their real ownership
1T may have been that the properties
were owned by individuals who were
stockholders in the Standard Oil com
pany of Ohio"
Mr. Rockefeller said that he never
| heard of the General International De-
velopment syndicate, limited. of London,
| nor did he know whether the Standard
owns the Manhattan Oil company of
Ohio.
Mr.. Kellogg asked Mr.. Rockefeller to
find out who owns those companies and
| also the London Commercial Printing &
| Investment company and the Security Oil
company of Texas.
! Counsel for the Standard Oil company
| offered to furnish this and also a list of
corporations obtained by the Standard
from 1882 to the present time.
Railroad Holdings.
Mr.. Rockefeller in reply to question
said:
Il may be a director in some railroads
in the United States, but at this moment
1 do not recall a railroad in which am
a director"
| Are YOU largely interested in railroads
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