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Show OIL TRUST MAKING REPLY TO GOVERNMENT CHICAGO, Oct. 1. Stai -ird Oil company com-pany attorneys presented evidencu before Judge Franklin Ferrlss In support of tho contention that the oil company has not been the recipient of preferential rates from railroads In different sections of the country. Tho hearings wore in tho federal building build-ing in ti room adjoining tho court room in which Judge Lnndls pronounced his Judgment that the Standard Oil company of Indiana should pay a lino of $20,210,000. and is a phase of the attempt of tho gov-orrunent gov-orrunent In a suit In chancery to havo the Standnrd Oil coinpuny dissolved and ceaso to exist as a corporation entity. Special Spe-cial Government Attorneys Frank B. Kol-logg Kol-logg and Charles B. Morris, former United Unit-ed States district attorney In Chicago, represented the government, and Attorneys Attor-neys John S. Miller and Morltz Rosenthal, both of whom appeared for tho oil company com-pany In tho spectacular lino case, represented repre-sented tho company before Jddgo Ferrlss. Fer-rlss. Henry E. Felton, general traffic manager man-ager of the Standard Oil company, was tho first witness called to tho stand and will be the principal witness to bo examined exam-ined in Chicago. |