The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05
GOVERNMENTS WAR
 ON STANDARD OIL
 IS RESUMED TODAY
Final Chapter in Effort to Crush 0ut the
 Trust Begun at St. Louis.
Case Taken up Before Fonr Judges of U. s. Circuit Court-All the Evidence Has Been Printed-A Resume of the Prosecution of the Giant Trnst.

St Louis April 5.-Before the four Judges of the United States Circuit Court for the Eighth Judicial Circuit Che final chapter in the governments three-year war to disrupt the Stand ard Oil Company was begun to-day. For ten days or two weeks attorneys for the government and for the Stand ard Ol Company and it's 109 co-defen- dants will make final argument on the evidence already collected at hearings held in many of the important cities Of the United States and before which some of the most prominent fnanciers sf America were called.
 Under the procedure Of the Circuit Court only that evidence can be pre- scented which has already been gather ed and printed. Instead of living men telling the story of the growth or the octopus.a dray load of calf bound vol 1rzaes will furnish the facts.
 The umpires who will decide the case arc Judges Walter H. Sanborn, Willis Van Devanter, William c. Hook and Elmer B. Adams. xnarshaled by Frank B. Kellogg. official trust buster. Charles B. Morrison or Chicago, was his chief assistant.
 Moritx Rosenthal and John s. Miller who shattered the Landis twenty-n1ne bdalion bubble fine. appeared for the Sfnndards
 There are nineteen volumes Of ev1- aenco. Each jucge and each attorney 96,ooO pages of questions and answers. In addition there are 1,6Oo exhibits The arguments will be typewriter and sent to the judges. It is esur1at- ed that by rapid work they could read through this mass of material in about two months No decision in the. case h expected for at least six months.
 From this decision either side has q x-3z1, nf direct tO the Su- preme Court of the United States. There the case has precedence and a final review might be had within
 inc hearings that attracted the most atteation were held in New York a few months ago. At these John D. Rocke- Teller, John D. Archbold, Henry H. Roeere- and other Wall street leaders
 Inc complaint divides the develop snent of the alleged sInonopo1y into three periods:6 First, that from lSo to 1882 when the individual defendants, John D. Rockefeller, William iRocke- fener Henry M. F1agler and others are deserted as forming the Standard and forcing competitors out of busl- mass; second, the period from 1882 to 1sse. when the Standard openly s.trust" operated under trusteesh1p headed by John D. Rockefeller; th1ro' the period from 1899 to the time or the 1d1inx of the complaint when the com- pany organized under the laws of New Jersey, its individual leadership lost behind it's corporate parsonage, IS al- leeed to have defied the United States and continually to have violated the sherman Anti-trust law.
 Competition was stifed, the govern 1nsnt says, by price cutting. This 1t because of preferential rates and re- bates The rebates, it Is alleged, were obtained through a conspiracy. Bogus companies were formed to crush com petition it is declared Rairoads were forced to use Standard lubricating oil, competitors being forced out of the f1eld. The United States was divided into sections each subsidiary company .niri1t be controlled, and there would E0e no real competition. And each ale ration is backed with figures and maps end copies of agreements.
 >d 1t for all it was worth without any regard for logical sequence. The re suN is that the work of untangllng the evidence and marshaling the facts that support each allegation, has been a g1- gantic one This is the work that she attorneys have been doing for the past two months
 To-day before the judges they be- gan their arguments trying to snow not only the relative value of the tes- tirnony, but each side also endeaVor1ng logically to prove from these facts the truth or falsity of the Government entire allegation.
 If the Government wins perma- nent injunction will be issued prohibit ing the Standard from carrying on It's business with the companies through which it fs said to carry out it's con spiracy against the United States. A series of injunctions are asked which effectually end the business Of the Standard and it's subsidiary companies.
 The prosecution begun as the climax of Roosevelt's trust-busting plans has been under the direction Of three at torney generals. Moody saw the case instituted Charles J. Bonaparte has directed the action of the attorneys in taking the evidence. George w. Wickersham has put his O. K. on the final argument as outlined by Kellogg and his assist ants
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