Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-06
DETAILS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY
Declares Monopoly Got Not Only Its
Own Rebates, But Those Due lnde-
rendents-Manipuiation Of Charters
to Suit contingencies-Needed In
formation Persistcntiy Withheld.
CIV Associated PresS.)

tCrney General Frank b. Kellogg.
filed his brief of l,4d0 printed pages
with the clerk Of the United states
Circuit Court Ct this city today ana
his argument. after two
years of evidence taking in the gov
eminent suit to dissolve the gigantic
Standard Oil Corporation. OF New
Jersey. for alleged violations Of the
Sherman antitrust law.
Mr.. kellogg commenced with
rather full review OF the evidence
taken by the government before dis
cussinS The law applicable to the
case. He told of the combination ef-
fected by John ID. Rockefeller. VIII
liam Rockefeller and Henry NJ. Flag
Ter, in 1879. conceived. he declared.
to effect a monopoly OF the petroleum
trade. both domestic and export.
Was MonopoIistie Conspiracy.
II was at that moment. according
TO the Federal lawyer, that the alleged
illegal conspiracy TO mcnopolize the
oil trade CT the country was con-
ceived. Later. SAID MIR. Kellogg.
Henry H. Rogers John d. Archbold.
Oliver H. Paine and Charles NJ. Pratt
were taken into the conspiracy by the
other defendants.
To tell more clearly the Story OF
Standard Oil, the special attorney
general divided the alleged conspiracy
into three periods-the first. from
1870 to 1882. when it was, he said.
simple combination, acting in harmony
with its stock interests pooled in the
hands of three trustees. From 1882.
continued Mr.. Kellogg. to 1899. the de-
PENDANTS interests were in the form
Of a trust controlled by nine trustees.
This trust, declared illegal by the
Ohio courts, was liquidated, and from
1899 to the present time, said Mr..
Kellogg. concluding that portion Of
his narrative. has taken the form or
a holding corporation. the Standard
Oil Company. of New Jersey controll-
ing subsidiary corporations in alleged
restraint Of trade or otherwise.
Got Rivals Rebates Toe.
After charging that the Standar 1
Oil not only received rebates on all
of it's own oil. but upon all that was
shipped by the independents. Mr.. Kei.
logg told OF the dissolution Of the
original trust by order of the court q
of Ohio and its subsequent liquidation
by trustees
Never had the government been
able to ascertain the exact number
Of the outstanding trustees certif-
Gates. Nor who owned them. contiDu-
ed Mr.. Kellogg. despite the most
earnest search that could be made.
That the Ohio trust was never dis
solved in good faith. was another OF
the Federal lawyers charges.
Following this alleged liquidation.
said the speaker. the Standard OH
Company Of New Jersey was formed
to do as a corporation what the trust
could not do.
Dummy English Company.
The formation Of the Corsicana
(Texas) Refining Company and the
iHl'itdtt Hi'l.tu Us WHICH &ht bou-
haitian Oil Company. owning a pipe
line in Ohio. vas purchased through
an alleged dummy English company.
was next described.
Mr.. kellogg said that the ~ con-
sideration Of the latter company
purchase was contrac: to Supply
the Chicago gas plant Of Anthony v.
Brady and Company, with gasoline at
half the market price. Tha: contrac.
stated the speaker. was worth 81.
200 900.
Mr.. Kellogg charged that in the
formation OF the original STANDARD
Oil Company. Of Ohio. men controIl.
ing the principal railways OF the
country necessary 10 the conduct OF
the oil business. were taken In n
stockholders. through this means
he claimed. rebates averaging hfty
per cent. were secured. and all Of the
then independent rcfiners were forced
into the socalled Standard OIL trust
I. was incidental TO the acquisition