| Show METTING PLENTY OF STATEMENTS Success Attending j Efforts to Get a Line on Standard on Oil Methods MORE DAMAGING EVIDENCE COMMISSION WILL REPORT TO CONGRESS Cleveland MaT SAt dis spent pent in n the of the Standard Oil COIn curn DailY any Interstate Commis Commissioners Commissioners Prouty and nd Clements Cements adjourned I Ithe the this afternoon and left i ifor for ton where wh e they le are to prepare a report for tor con The report however win will not be ed un UIl until t til iI the on attorn attorneys n ys have hare been opportunity to th to the many and developments were ere th In k p ing with the general line of made durin during the two to previous days Evidence of Former Chief Clerk w Y E MacEwan a former chief clerk tf f the Lake Shore Shor Ii Michigan South Southern ern eln railroad waa 88 t the first Mr Macswan had bad charge of the books re the freight cha charges es of the Tank lIne ng to the Standard Oil company He testified that the railroad dl discrImInated in ra or of the Union line Several years ago agn he the Lake Shore and took tooka a position with the tb Peerless Tank Taik line linean linean an independent concern He finally forced the Lake Shore alter much Ja Ia Jabor bor to treat the s to the same rates as enjoyed by tM the trust line Une but lIt lie said sald the railroad company lUly found other ways way of discriminating against t the 11 P Witness said the Standard bri bribed railway by payin yIng them sal salaries nips aries In return for tor which the 1 favored a the Union Tank line Editor on the Stand w V T J Brickell for twentynine years I editor or of the Columbus 0 EvenIng Dispatch d denied knowledge e of a re i that the Standard had bad aub throughout hout Ohio to ms I pre ent matt matters detrimental to the iiI i I If his own p paper ha hat had t n with the Standard for matter bhe he knew nothing a ut It The mn manager e roe re reaid f aid id was as the man to question Malcolm Jennings of Lancaster 0 C an aD advertising cont for news tt for the rd Chari r 0 T TD I D Ells Ella an Independent oU oil dealer the Stand 4 I that ai i had obtained names name of his cus customers by bribing his employee J an oil dealer of if F I veLand pYland for jUt fifteen n years to rH a special agent In hi the Cleveland of the St ard Oil company a tab tb df f oil prices for dif diff ft f rent territories in Ohio showing that they were high where tb they y wu wee nu no null ll and low where there were ere ri rival al dealers V Virril P Kline for tor th tb Sl OIl company said he it understood that he be wanted WAIted to take referred to and anG t tn se several ral matters make reply at some time am place tnt to the commissioners Th Thc The c toners said they would allow Mr Tr Kline the privilege and would an anI I the time and place later The hearing then adjourned |
