Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-19
BEGIN ACTION
 AGAINST FISHER Osage Indians Institute Proceedings to Prevent
 Being Ousted.
N SUPREME COURT
Aitt\ley For Independent Oil Cam- pany Gives Testimon, lnr!i-
 catin" Federal Judges.

Washington, Jan. Following charges preferl ed yesterday by 0sASc Indians of Oklahoma against Secre- tary Fisher to the effect that he had ] favored the Standard Oil Company and di.crimnated against indeoend- ents in the disposition of oil leases proceedings we're begun teddy in the district supreme court by tA" chief and eight members of the Osa re trib- al council who were busted by See retary ,iAer for approving leases to independent oil companies. The aroceedings were instituted to CleVent Eeing busted by Secretary Fisher and calling on him to show cause why he took such action.
 Attorney Albert C. Wilson, of Kan sas City, testified before the House committee on Indian affairs that an independent oil concern, the ofnclo Sam Oil Company, of which he IS counsel had been oppressed and per secuted by the Standard Oil Company, the Postoffice department, the Inter for department and certain federal judges.
 Judges Implicated.
 Besides Secretary Fisher othe implicated in the charge am2llfled to- day before the committee were: AS sistant Secretary of the lnteflor Adams, Judge John c. Pollock, of the i United States District Court ol kah- sas: David Mulzane, Republican na- tional committeeman from Kansas,
 Replying to the charges Secretary Fisher averred that the Uncle sam OH Company was seeking to do an lnJus- tice to the Indians.
 In his testimony Wilson related the history of the organization of the Un- cle Sam Company and the efforts ol the Trust rival to put it out of busl- ness.
 Alleges GefSecutIOH.
 He said that the Standard OH Cohl- Dany sent an agent to Kansas Clly who inserted paid articles in the newspapers, apparently straight read ing matter, attacking the Tru-ts in denendent competitors. MT. Wilson then told of the issuance of q flaud order hy the postoffice department : eainst the Uncle Sam Oil company No charge had been made, he sad Action was started by the departmeh' simply on the receipt of clipping ol 3 an advertisement for the Uncle sam Oil Company across which was writ } ten in red lead pencil Issue Fraud 5 Order" The clipping came from l Cleveland, Ohio.
 "The Standard Oil papers gave us < the first information of any attemp r. on the part of the department to pa! c us from the mails said MT. Wilson 3 On advice of Congressman Camppell f of Kansas, the company employe; - David Mulzane, Republican nationa l. committeeman from Kansas to presen l its side of the case to the postofflc' d department. .Mulzane, he said want {, ed S2.5O0. "This was paid,' said MT e Wilson "but we have the draft re f turned with his signature on then
 It was a hold-up-a political hold-up
 This was in 1905.
 7. Judges Taken On Jaunt.
 "On January 2S, 1906, while thes
 D. oceedings in the Postoffice depart
 ment were apparently pending tn e United States district judges who US [ ually preside in Kansas, were takel \ on a fishing trip to Tampico, Mexico { in the private car of the general sol [ icitor of the Santa Fe railroad. H. H 4 Rogers vice president of the Stand \ ard Oil. was a director of the Sant ! Fe at the time. The judges on tn ' trip were John Pollock, judge of tn \ United States district court for tn ' District of Kansas; John s. Phillip . judge of the district court of tn ( United States for the Western DIS { trict of Missouri and Smith McPhel ! son, judge of the United States Dl' zl trict Court of the Southern District x Iowa. They were accompanied by u 1 general solicitor of the Santa F' ' general solicitor of the Kansas Cl = Southern Railroad and the gener