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Show Ijfoted Attorneys Make Arguments Argu-ments iu Suit to Enforce the Valentine Law. DEFENSE ONLY OCCUPIES SHORT TIME IN COURT (torney for State Says Viola-ff Viola-ff fiou of Law Has Been M Clearly Shown. lH FlSDLAY. 0., Oct. 1G. Both the P- State and the defease rested their case in tie rial l!0ro a&ainst the Standard 85 Oil cojnnauv of Ohio for alleged con- fc: foi-acv 'against trade this morning. rcuinent of counsel followed. W. vL. Fiulcy, State Inspector of Oil, 5 " -as the' first witness today in tho trial of the Standard Oil company of Ohio 4 '"or alleged conspiracy against trade. $ h ttoruev-General Ellis ot Ohio was j& Jirain present at the Trial, having been aosenfyesterday . , v ilr. Fmley wo.s questioned by Mr. MS Harrison of the Attorney-General 'e of- H gee." Mr. Finley described tho location Q Bsd number of his duties and method of B inspection. . . From reports in cis ofnee. Mr. Fmley H faid one-half the oi! refined in Ohio was refined at Lima. Fromthe same source H of infoiniation. this oil is shipped in the cars of the Union Tank Line company. H Tcso questions and answers were all H put in over the protests of the attor-H attor-H ne'-s for the defense. H The Standard of Ohio, he said, had j H, from ISO to 200 stations for the distri-H distri-H -butioii and salo of refined oil. while the B Sokr bad no such stations. Mr. Finluy H was not eross-esamined. Jf. C. Schaffer, deputy local oil ills' ill-s' fincctor at Findlay, who testified last week, was recalled. He said tho Stand-H Stand-H ard was selling oil at retail in Hancock Hr county, and no other company sold oil -bore, except the National lfcfining com pany. ... State's Case Eested. With this evidence the State rested its case. Mr. Kline, for the defense, then put in the'first evidence for the defense. He first filed as evidence a certified eopv of the .-journal entry, th judgment of tho court in the ca'se of the State of Ohio against the Standard Oil companj-, known as the contempt proceedings. Mr. Kline read this record and then announced, "defendant rests. " "Now let the oratory begin," remarked re-marked Mr. Phelps. In a five-minute recess it was arranged ar-ranged that five speeches would be made io the jury, three by tho State's attomej-s and two bv the "defense. Prosecutor David will oDen for the State, and arguments will be made by Attorney-Genernl Ellis and Mr. Phelps tor tho prosecution. . Messrs. Kline and Troup will present the defense to the jurv. It is estimated esti-mated this argument wi'll consume, the balanco of the day. Old Trust Still Exists. "Reviewing the documentary evidence to the jury, Mr. David said 'it was not disputed by anyone that the Standard I On trust actually esistel in 1SSD. I the State now conteuds that this same trust, only under another name, still exists. Tie montioned the various local lo-cal companies now doing business in 1 the Stale, saying they were members I or tho original trust. '"'The peoplo in the case," said Mr. David, "claim that the Standard Oil company of New Jersey ownr. tho stock of the these subsidiary companies, compan-ies, each ono dependent upon the other and right now doing business among us. We have shown that these same gentlemen John D. Rockefeller, Flagler, Flag-ler, Wi'iliam Rockefeller, Arckbold. and I Rogers, are today the heads of these companies. These msn were of the ! nine original trustees in the trust. i ''Tho Standard Oil trust agreement of IS92," said Mr. Phelns of the pros- I ccution, who followed Mr. David, "was responsible for every trust iu thus continent it was tlio original trust. j Claims Evidence Is Plain. ( "The laws of Ohio renuvre," he con- ' tinucd, "that, the Standard Oil com-! com-! xanv qf New Jersey, the owner of these subsidiary companies, must come here and do business in its own name. All that we can rcquiro is that it shall cease to defy tho. law of this State." The evidence, he said, showed beyond the shadow of a kdoubt, that the Tal-I Tal-I cntine law was being violated. I Mr. Troup, who followed Mr. Phelps, presented the case for the defense. ''Much h.'is been said,'' lie began, t ' ' about the Buckeye Pipe Line com-panj', com-panj', the Solar "Refining company, tho Manhattan Uil company, the 'Ohio Oil company and all of these companies have been alleged to be the property of the New Jersey corporation. But,'' Mr. Troup emphasized, "none of these companies is on trial here. The only defendant here is the Standard Oil company- of Ohio." Summed up, he said, Ihe charge against the defendant wa6 this: "That the defendant is a "member of a trust formed in 1882 and has con-' ! tinucd so down to the present time." Mr. Troup justified combinations of capital, brains, energy and actions as ' essential to the progress of tho world. It was such combinations which had produced civilization.- and these, in them-I them-I selves were not and could not be uulaw-1 uulaw-1 ful. |