Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-16
PIPE LINES AS CARRIERS
Inquiry Into Standard Oil Combine
Touches Transportation Phase.
TESTIMONY NEARLY ALL IN
Final Arguments in Suit to Dissolve
Merger VIII he Heard in
ST. Louis in
April.

NEW YORK, Jan. N-The hearing in the
gov ernment's inquiry into the Standard Oil
company here is nearing an end. At the
conclusion today of the testimony of F.
NJ. TowIe, chief engineer of the Standards
system of pipe lines. it was stated that one
or two days more was likely to conclude
the New York part of the hearing. Some
additional rebuttal testimony will be taken
in Chicago and the case will then be
closed except for the final arguments in
St. Louis in April.
Mr.. Towle produced under subpoena maps
showing the Standard Oil company'p entire
pipe line system. He was examined at
length by Counsel Kellogg for the govern.
ment, the purport of the questions being
evidently to prove that the lines could be
operated as common carriers and that the
dispatch of oil of varying grades through
the lines without damage or serious inter.
| mixture was not impossible or impractical
BILE.
Mr.. Kellogg insisted that the govern
ment's contention that the lines could be
operated as common carriers had been
proved by the testimony and that 1t was
the duty Of the defendants, as long as the
law made 1t a common carrier, to provide
the capacity to transport the oil as such.
no matter what it cost. When 1t was ex-
planned to him that the testimony showed
that no shipper had ever applied to have
his oil so transported, Mr.. Kellogg replied
that was due 10 the prohibitive rates and
lack OF terminal facilities.
Lawyer Crawford, representing the de-
Tense, thought, on the other hand, that the
Standard had proved plainly that the lines
were being operated to their full capacity
and that It would be impossible for the
lines 20 be used as suggested by Mr..
Kellogg.
League for Industrial Education
The National League for Industrial Edu-
cation, designed to foster national. state
and municipal cooperation in the promo
ton OF industrial training in schools, has
been organized here, with James ]. Hill
of st. Paul honorary president.
The campaign to realize the objects of
the league is to begin with the organiza-
don Of the state and local branches In
every state. Every effort will be made to
induce congress to pass the Davis bill. a
measure providing for an appropriation to
the respective states equal to l per cent
per capita for instructing teachers in the
science and art OF industrial education.
The leagues headquarters will be here.
Bison Society Meets.
President Roosevelt was elected honorary
president OF the American Bison society
at its third nnual meeting here tonight
and Carl Grey, governor general of Canada.
honorary vice president.
In mis- annual report President w. p.
Hornaday stated the plans of the society.
which has for its object the preservation
and maintenance of the buffalo in the
United States, were progressing satisfac-
torily. Plans for the coming year look to
the establishment of state parks in every
state in which to maintain a buffalo herd.
Misuse of Mails Charged.
Charged with operating in a scheme to
defraud by use of the malls, Morris Hirsch,
Leopold Weiss and Jules Kramer were ar
rested here tonight, Hirsch and Weiss de-
claring themselves president and treasurer
OF the Valley Dew Distilling company.
1t is charged the prisoners contracted
with liquor dealers in the west and south
to deliver whisky at a low price, claiming
1t was in their warehouses. and giving