The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-17
OIL CASE IN COURT
Final Fight For Dissolution OF
the Standard Oil Now Before
Supreme Court

Supreme Court
ATTRACTS LARGE CROWD.
Attorney for the Standard Attempts
to show That 1t Does Nothing In
| Restraint of Trade-Attorney for
| the Prosecution Says That the OIL
Trust Is Dangerous to the Coun-
try and Its Organization as Com
mercial Precedent Must be Eradi-
i Gated From the Country.
i Washington, D. c.. March Ia
The final fight for the dissolution OF
the standard Oil' began this after
noon before the Supreme Court or
the United States. when Jno. G. Mil
burn, of New York, spoke for three
, hours in its defense. He will con-
clude tomorrow. The remainder of
the day will be devoted to the second
: step in the great contest, the reply
of Frank B. Kellogg, on the part OF
| the Government.
) The hearing of the suit against the
, Standard Oil attracted to the court
room members of both Houses OF
g Congress, lawyers and spectators
from all sections of the country to
! hear what was to be said in the re-
@r h. Il nf
y Court of the United States for the
= Eastern District Of Missouri, dissolv-
ing the Standard Oil Company Of
New Jersey, as a conspiracy in re-
straint of trade and as a monopoly
. in violation of the Sherman Anti
J. Trust Act.
Most of Mr.. Milburn's address
= consisted of review of the growth
% of the Standard Oil, with the object
% of laying the foundation for the
= claim that the entering into the re-
: organization of the Standard Oil
r Company of New Jersey in 1899 were
n non-competitive, because for the
Il many years they had been uader a
y so-called common ownership.
n How the Octopus Took on Weight.
/ He told of the tremendous size Of
the business of the Standard Oil, and
N he explained how it had grown, &C
q cording to his conception. He sale
IS large factors in this growth were th'
a. building of pipe lines (which any
is body had a right to build" as b.
q a Il ~
at and the extending Of the marketing
a facilities throughout the country am
the entire world.
e. I'VE compete abroad with grea
be corporations" said. he. that ar
f. priced and shielded by their govern
ments and compelled to combine S
m that they may be powerful. w
n have been able to meet them, be
m cause of our strength"
boI Washington, March 15.-Holdin
no up the Standard Oil Company
New Jersey as danger to the couI
try and it's organization as con
mercial precedent that must be erat
icated from the business worl'
Frank B. Kellogg to-day arraigne
the corporation before the Supren
Court of the United States with a
the power Of his eloQuence. 1t WI
the governments turn to be heal
!. in the argument over the dissolutie
. of the STANDARD Oil' as decreed
the Circuit Court Of the United Stat
OF for the Eastern District Of Missoul
k), Mr.. Kellogg's object was to give
history of the Standard oil and
activities. which he dominated
Ing monopolistic, but frequently he W
ne led off into the law Of the case.
Oio seemed inclined to leave many
Mr.. these points for the discussion of
all torney-Gsneral Wickersham, who
mo- to close the case for the Governme
tne tomorrow. Particularly was Il
In true as to the point of common oU
10 ership of Standard Oil property urs
'ntn by the defense to have existed be
OUT before and after the organization
I oi the alleged illegal combination
Is 1899.
lean Time after time the court ma
ioI- tested it's keen interest in the Ct
at by subjecting the counsel before
S1V. to a series of queries. They W
oulu particularly anxious to know alb
rons the common ownership claimed
Ao- the Standard Oil counsel and to
anu the various interpretations OF
'aro- meaning which should be given t
tlon' monopoly, as used in the Shern
nsoh antitrust act.
tion. p.i,road rates as a means of
lrcu- fair competition was next consider
ant S He spoke of the number Of Stand
Oil officials in many railroads.
Sleno said it was strange that the railrC
should have made lower rates f
Soro' Standard Oil shipping points
ltors, from Independent points. The
IS Oh son he complained of these allie
crats' Determinations, he said. was to S
erhor the monopolistie conduct Of Stan'
eheir Oil.
IL ne From the railroad question he
wood, turned to what he called the III
1ot 70 methods of competition. AS an
ample, he told of the Standard
ing oil at a loss at Los Ans
where there was competition, ar
profit at Portland and Se'
Al. where there was no compet1
Hick- '"They may say that it is only
cement petition but we say it is compel