| Show OUSTER DECREE STill STANDS Oil Co Pays Its Fine but More Remains to Be Done STATES ATTORNEY ACTS SUPREME COURT ASKED TO EJECT OUTFIT FROM STATE Jefferson City cn llo Mo 10 Feb I eb 15 On the tha grounds that tho the Oil com corn company company pany party of Missouri has not complied with tho the ouster decree of ot the supreme court of the state in an answer filed today toda At Attorney AttOrney torney General Major this afternoon filed flied with the court a suggestion that the oust ouster ouster er bo be made effective against the concern This course was agreed upon after con conference conference conference ference between the thc attorney general eneal Governor Hartley Hadley and former Assistant At Attorn Attorn torn y General John Kennish The action of the attorney general will be based on the fact that the company has not fur furnished furnished furnished satisfactory evidence that it lies has severed relations with the Standard Oil company Payment Pa ment of the tho fine flue was made by the tender of a certified check for The Tile acceptance is silent so far as showing a reorganization Independent of at the Stand Standard Standard Standard ard Oil company is concerned and there is no showing that tine the New Jersey cor corporation corporation does docs not still own 60 GO per cent of the stock Will Keep the Money The action of the Oil on company this morning does not comply with Ith the decree of the ite court except as asto asto asto to the fine the attorney general said Raid I Ishall Ishan Ishall shall shan ask tho tim court to enforce the full penalty of Its former decree and show wherein the company compan has failed to com corn comply comply ply with the courts order But you will keep the money some someone someone someone one suggested ug ested I 1 have not seen Uk th check but under understand understand understand stand it has been paid That was the tho fine tine of course to be paid whether the com corn company compan pany pan Is ousted or 01 not There is nothing for the state to do but to show that the courts order has been ignored In part and let the court act accordingly Governor Hadley said The Tine company has only partly complied with the courts order when it paid In tho the money mone When Whon does the Standard Oil company of Indiana come In now It must wait walt until the court passes upon its Ita proposition I should not be sur If the court would give shoe us A n field day da for both bolh companies and have it Il out all at once View of the Company I Judge H S Priest attorney attorn for the Wa a Oil company com pan said We believe bellee we have complied d with the order of the th court and now are submitting to its orders Speaking of the proposition made by b the Standard Oil company of oC Indiana to let the state have hare half control of the bud busi business bu budness l ness of a new company compan to be organized to do business in Missouri JudO Judge Priest said Raid We are not parties to it We e prom promised promised not to go into any combination of any kind whatever We have hac nothing to todo todo todo do with th these ze propositions but of course they the would mean more It if made by the Standard Oil company of New Ne York which owns all the stock of ot the Standard Oil company of Indiana and most of the stock of the company Question for the Court It Is said the company compan will ask the court to aid it in Carrying ar out the Ule reorganization order portion of oC the tine decree de If this Is done a contest between the and Standard Oil company of Indiana is almost sure to result the latter petitioned the tho court to have the majority stock In the tIne Waters Vaters Pierce Pirce company compan with other Stan Stanard Stanard Stanard ard Oil property in this state placed in inthe Inthe inthe the hands of trustees representing the company com pan and the state This plan is II not acceptable to the Wa interests who assert rt that It would not free them thorn from the domination of the Standard Oil company compan as required by the original orl nal decree In ouster |
