Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-11
STANDARD OIL
IS ENABLED TO
MAKE MILLIONS
GOVERNMENTS CASE AGAINST
OCTOPUS COMPLETED
SPECIAL ATTORNEY KELLOGG
SCORES MONOPOLY
Prosecutor Admits Company Is Ruled
by Genius, but Declares Its Conn
bination lmpeIs Money
making
Inv Associated Press. ]

HT. LOUIS, April 10.-Arguments in
the suit of the government TO dls-
NJ solve the Standard Oil company OF
New Jersey were completed in the fed
eral court of appeals this afternoon
when Frank B. Kellogg, special assist
ant to the attorney general, finished
his summing UP of the government
case, in which he said company com
hination is certain to bring millions
into its Golfers.
Because of the size of the record and
Abe MAGNITUDE of the interests involved,
a decision is not expected until next
autumn. e..
After a continuous argument Tor nVe
DAYS. Special United States Attorney
General F. B. kellogg today MADE ms
closing address in behalf of the gov
eminent in the latter's suit to dissolve
the Standard Oil company OF New Jer-
sey as a violator of the sherman act
The case has a record for pighess'
The evidence is larger by halt IMAM
ever taken in q single case, the record
containing in all 100000 words. 1t
is estimated by the time the court OF
last resort has passed upon the points
at issue the trial will represent an ex-
penditure Of $4,000, 900 in lawyers ices
and court costs.
Mr.. Kellogg argued that the twenty
companies signing the original stand
ard trust agreement were just as COM
petitive, or more So than the railways
subscribing to the agreement IN the
Northern Securities case.
Reviews the Facts
The government attorney reviewed
the facts as well as the law, and as
serted that the two cases were ldentl-
cal, and that by no stretch OF the I'M
agination or sophistry could Mr. wat
sons argument be legally or technically
logical.
Mr.. kellogg took sharp issue with
the defendants maps showing that the
Drice of crude and refined oil had fol-
lowed the general increases and de-
clines of prices of household commodlt-
ties, even to being lower as rule.
He stated the price of both crude and
refined oil had been higher than the
proportionate increase of general sup
plies, offering a new set of tables pre-
pared by DR. A. Dana Durand of the
United States bureau OF corporations,
in support of his contention.
Mr.. kellogg asserted the task OF the
prosecution is seldom easy.
"It was no summer vacation stunt TO
prepare and try this case" he added.
Coming up to the $22,O00,00O 'Trainor
Ioan," which he said he could never
trace, Mr.. Kellogg claimed that when
John D. Archbold testified the matter
was a mere matter of bookkeeping, the
answer was an evasion.
'Mr. Rockefeller frank? Mr.. Arch
bold frank? Read this record. OBJ
viously Mr.. Archbold could not an
swer," exclaimed the lawyer.
Mr.. Kellogg spoke simultaneously
of the secrecy maintained at 26 Broad
way, New York.
"There you will find a lawyer behind
every keyhole," he said.
''That the Standard Oil has been sue
cessful, 1 don't deny" he continued.
THAT it was ruled by genius, l do not
deny. But this genius had a combina-
ton and monopoly that can pile up mil
lions, if unchecked"