Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-20

mainder of his argument. The lines ot the Chi
cage and Eastern Illinois do not run into Chca-
30. They terminate at Dolton from which
point entrance is made over the Belt Line,
Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not
on the lines OF the Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt
line at Dol ton. The former practice, dis
continued in filing tariffs to make them
read from point the line of the nllng road,
and it was also general to state on the
sheet that the taTif would apply to other points.
g., whiting The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
followed this practice in filing it's rate from
BOLTON, and making a note the sheet that it
applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this
method of fling tariffs was in common
Now let us See in what way the intending ship
per of oil could be msled and deceived by the
fact that the Chicago and Eastern Illinois had not
filed rate reading fro IN Whithnl Comlhls-
sioner Smith contends that "concealment' is the
only motive for such crcuitous arrangement"
l.. e., that this method filing the rate was in
tended to mislead intending competitors of the
@andard on company. suppose such a prospect
live oil re finer had applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago
to East st. Louis the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois. he would have been informed that the on
~ rate filed with the commission by this company
So cents from BOLTON. and he would have
been further informed, if indeed he did not know
this already, that this applied throughout Chi
locate biz plant at Whiting, anywhere else
about Chca GO under arrangement OF long
standing md which applies to all the industrial
towns in the neighborhood of Chicago, he could
have his freight delivered the Belt Line to
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois at Dolton and
transported East ST. Louis at 81 rate of 81
cents Where then is the concealment which the
Commission er Of Corporations makes so much OF?
Any rate-from Dolton the Eastern Illinois or
Chappel on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois
Blue Island the Rock Island applies through
out Chicago territory to shipments from Whiting,
to shipm ents from any other point in the dis
trct. so far from the Eastern Illinois filing its
from d bolton In order deceive tho shipper,
1t is the Commissioner Of Corporations who either
toms in Chicago territory relies the public
ignorance OF these customs to deceive the public
too apt to accept unquestionngly every statement
made by a government official necessarily true,
although, in the present instance. a careful
examination shows these statements to be false
The final point made by President Moffett that
other comm ODDITIES of character similar TO oil
were carried at much lower rates than is cents,
the Commits sioner OF Corporations discusses only
with the remark that "the reasonabeness' of this
rate is not in question. The question IL whether
this rate constituted a discrimination against
other shippers of OIL" and he also makes much
OF the failu of President Mofett to produce be-
fore the grand jury evidence of the al
legged iles al acts of which the Standard Oil Off