Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-04-11
Arguments Concluded at St,
Louis in Famous Suit to Dis
solve Gigantic Rockefeller
Combination,
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
SPENT FOR LAWYERS
Owiag to Bulky Record and
Magnitude of Interests In
VOWED Court viii Require
Months to PasS on Case,

Months to FuSS on Case,
IN, Morning Journal Special Isnsea WIrsl
st. Louis. April 10--Argumcnts il
the suit Of the government to dissolve
thc standard OH company of New
jersey were completed in the United
States circuit court OF appeals this af
tcmoon when Frank j. Kellogg spc-
cia assistant to the attorney genera
finished his summing up or the gov
ornments case Because of the size O
the record and the magnitude of tho
interests involved, a decision is not ex-
pcctcd until next autumn.
After continuous argument of five
days, Special United states Attorney
General Frank b. Kellogg today made
his closing address in behalf of the
government
The ease has q record for bigness
The evidence is larger by half than
that eyer before taken in a single
case, the record containing in all H.
the time the court of last resort has
passed upon the points at issue the
trial will represent an expenditure OF
$4,000, coo In lawyers fees and court
costs
Mr. Kcl ss today began his argu-
-----.--1A - slSGussing ,44e contentious 1i
David r. Watson, anont the Northern
Securities decision Mr Watson, who
argued that case for the govern
mcnt in the present suit insisted that
conditions between the defendant and
the facts of the securities" case were
not analogous and, therefore, not ap-
plicablc as controlling authority
MI Kellogg argued that the twenty
companies signing the original stan
dard trust agreement" were Just as
competitive. if anything, more so, than
The railways subscribing to the agree
ment in the Northern Securities case.
The government attorney reviewed
the facts as well as the law and as
serted That the two cases were identi-
cal and that by no stretch Of the i'm
aeination or sophistry could Mr.. Wat
sons argument be legally or techni-
caly logical
Mr.. Kellogg took sharp issue with
imo defendants maps. showing that
li, Pi'e oi crude ana refined OIL haI
followed the general Increases and de-.
'lne of prices of household commo-
diiIes. oven to being lower as rule.
i' insisted that the price OF poth
"'' ana r'iih'd OIL had been highei
.''n 'le proportionate increase OF
"'f'i supplies offering a new suit
l'oI's prepared by Or a. Dana
''' anu oI me United States bureau
CORPORATIONS IN support OF his con-
,,'o"
N' Kellogg asserted that the task
" lne prosecutor is seldom easy.
~ was d." summer vacation stunt to
".l1te ana try this case he added.
... He government he continued,
'', NOT base its case upon the title
,''r 't moddlors, but upon facts
N"'h mas been said about magazine
iS ana political demagogucs. but
government knew when it gather
'h's evidence, that il would be re-
viewed by this honorable court.
A'u VIII not find in the record the
'"' "luis OF tho discontented, but the
'"iH oi "a monopoly that never has
''h' and ! hope. never viii again he
'9l'Iied i'm this country"
coming 90 the $22.000,000 "Trainor
.''l which he said he could never
'''' Sir Kellogg claimed that when
"'ln ID. Archbold testified that he
Understood that the transaction was a
"'fr matter of bookkeeping that the