Show INVESTIGATION OF OIL INDUSTRY Commissioner Garfield Beady Ready to Be Begin Begin Begin gin Work WILL GET ALL THE FACTS REPORT WILL BE MADE TO ROOSEVELT I IW It A I ASHINGTON March 5 Commis Commissioner t WASHINGTON W vv James R Garfield of o the bureau of corporations has instituted instituted a rigid investigation of the oper operations operations operations of the oil industry in Kansas and contiguous states In response to tn a resolution of the house of representatives tives introduced by Representative Campbell of Kansas the investigation of the tho oil industry will be carried on onas onas onas as rapidly as is consistent with thor thoroughness thoroughness The report re rt of Commissioner Garfield Garfiel will be made directly to President Roosevelt Roosevlt Whether it will be made public will ill lie within the discretion of the chief executive Depending on the facts developed it may be turned over oer to the we department 1 of justice for such action as the attorney I Iney ney icy general may deem d m proper Nothing N thing Will be bf b Left eft Undone Commissioner Commiss mer Garneld Gareld Gar eld said today that nothing would be left undone by his bureau to develop the facts regard regarding regarding regarding ing the operation of the oil trust in Kansas as well as in other states It Itis Itis Itis is not riot the purpose of Commissioner Garfield to confine the inquiry to Kan Kansas Kansas KansaS sas It will not be circumscribed by state or geographical lines It is the Intention of the commissioner to make the investigation as exhaustive as the there resolution re of Representative Campbell contemplates the purpose being bein to de develop develop elop all the facts regarding the opera operations operations operations of the oil oU trust During the past year said Commis Cominis Commissioner Garfield to the UIe Associated Press Pressa a great reat amount of general information Information tion Uon relating to the oil oU trust t has been obtained This affords a basis from which to In undertake immediate specific inquiries into the existing in specific fields such as Kansas I anS s Texas and California Same Methods Employed I The uThe method of procedure ure will be similar to that followed investigating t tin ing in the operations of the th beef beer trust The commissioners of cf corporations per personally personally personally and through special agents will obtain information from original sources s Already Alread these sources sources of in information information information formation have been sounded They have responded respond d to the commissioner of corporations by agreeing to furnish in information information information formation to afford the fullest opportunity tunit for inspection on of records and ac accounts counts and tv t answer all questions per pertinent pertinent pertinent to all matters involved In the tile In Inquiry It is the intention of ot Commissioner Garfield under direction of President Roosevelt to make the inquiry Into the operations of the oil trust as complete and Ind exhaustive as possible Nothing will be left undone that will develop a single fact relating to the work of the trust and if it has ben bon unjust in dis discrimination discrimination discrimination crimination against the producers of oil in Kansas or in any other state the inquiry will w it It Is pointed out that the oil trust through its pipe pipelines pipelines pipelines lines is not a common carrier under the law and be compelled to car carry carT carI ry T I oil from any given field unless the producers accede to its terms tenus The oil trust maintains that it has conducted I its business not only in accordance with the law but In perfect regard to recognized recognized principles and that I therefore itis perfectly willing to have havethe havethe havethe the government make moke as rigid an in inquiry I as it may desire into its methods I of ot doing business |