Show i i DE TAKES TAKES' TAKESi i NO CREDIT FOR TRUST John D. D Admits All Honors I Ar Are Due to the I 1 Others FLAGLER FLAGLER AND DODD CONCEIVED THE THING f He Got in Later on the Deal Dealand Dealand and Made it a Great Success T Nr N H Hi r NEW YORK YORE Nov 23 John John D. D Rockefeller test testified ed today 4 4 that he did not conceive the plan 4 4 of tho the formation of the ori original inal 4 in 4 1 Standard Oil trust in Im sorry to say that I 1 did dd 4 not Fa said paid d DIr Mr lr Rockefeller I 4 cannot claim any credit for that 4 Mr Jr lagler Jer and S. S C. C Dodd Dod conceived con con- 4 it 4 4 r H. H i John D. D was Rockefeller called to the witness stand when the hearing in the tho governments government's suit to dis dissolve olvo the Standard Standard Stand Stand- I ard ard Oil OU company was vas resumed today l r- r It has been tho the plan of the Standard Stand ard iid d' d 5 at attorneys 0 to o have e Mr R Rockefeller lct f o oil i of ot oYthe the the comparatively early carly ic rs of of the company's and his direct examination included no ref ref- rence to any happening later than 1882 It was announced at that time that thai the remainder of tho the Standards Standard's tor would be told b by John D. D Archbold Arch Arch- hold bold and other officers of the company I who vho are Me moro more familiar than Mr r. r Rockefeller Rock Rock- RockI I deller who by b- bone one ono of his angers an an- gers rna made e it possible for the tho government govern govern- overn ment J to go 0 as far fur as it likes in iu the cross examination In his direct c examination Mr Rockefeller Rocke Roche- feller had said that the business of reining relining re re- re- re lining ining Inin oil was wag a n hazardous one In his bis cross cross examination Mr Ir Kello Kellogg s asked him hini how Low he lie could regard as hazardous a n business which had returned such enormous profits Mr tr Rockefeller replied re re- re- re plied JIBed that the fact that a business had been profitable was no argument against J i l contention that it was haz haz- and aud ho lie reiterated that oil relining re re- lining hazardous business f even D was a n e cn the tb time 1 up to present Mr r. r Kellogg maintained that Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's gratuitous statement that the tho business s is hazardous up to the present time timo opens up to him the whole period of the tho Standards Standard's history r Mr Ir Rockefeller returned to tho the city today loday from his country home Pocantico Hills wHere he bad had rested over o Suu- Suu 1 a. a He exercised yesterday by walking walk walk- ing ing homo home from tho the Da Baptist church a l distance of two miles Refreshed by a days day's rest Mr Rocke Rocke- f fell r was smiling when Frank B. B Kel Kel- resumed his cross examination Who Were They Mr fr Kellogg's Kelloggs ts first inquiry was whether hether all the flie stockholders of the South Tm Improvement provement company afterwards became holders of stock in in the tho Stand Stand- L tc-ard tc ard Oil company of Ohio Mr R Rocke feller said ho no did not think so so and when Mr Ir Kellogg C read a list of the South I Improvement ement company's stock holders bolders Mr r. r Rockefeller named several of them ho be said did not hold stock tock in the tho Standard F Replying R to further questions Mr Rockefeller said that he thou thought ht there was an increase in tHo stock toek of the Standard Oil company of Ohio from irom 2 2500 2 to in 1875 In In makin making the increase did you not submit a n paper on which appeared the tho names of all aU tho stockholders of the South Improvement ement company T asked Mr Ir Kellogg The The paper would be bo t th the best c deuce dence replied Mr lr Rockefeller Mr Kellogg 1 then read several names from the tho paper and Mr Rockefeller said it was possible several eral of those mentioned mi might ht have been stockholders UI ers r of ot the Standard if tho they had the tho mon money l to purchase the thc stock now How many railroad men did you vou t I take tahe into tho Standard niter alter I 1 could not say sav Was W. W n H H. H V a er tr t r F I HI I cant can't eay say definitely He ne mi might ht nave bave been a stockholder for a trifling amount I IDid Did Did you ou not not- sign a a. paper on March r 10 1875 1815 requesting an au increase of ot cap I ital stock stock as follows W H. H Vanderbilt Vander- Vander bilt but b by J. J D. D Rockefeller his attorney ney e t That may mav may be the tho paper would be bo the best evidence As rAs He Ho Remembered It Mr r. r Kellogg brought out the tho fact that tIlt Amusa maa Stone then president of the Ulo Lako Shore Michigan Southern railWay railway rail rail- way Stilman V. WI Witt a 1 director of the Lake Lako Shore and Bi Big Four Tour railroad railroads J. J p. p Handy also a director of the tho Continued on page fl P. I. I 1 4 HE BE TAKES NO CREDIT I Continued from pa page pago o L t ome ems on November 26 6 last the day of ot othe he alleged cd trouble A A man was standing beside her ber The Tho roman oman turned her face and looked ate at ne e saying sayin Please Plea e police As A th the the- woman said that I saw the i Four road were taken jn into nth the thel l standard Oil company in in the tho early days Mr Rockefeller said that P. P H. H Waton Wat- Wat on LOU seemed to have havo access ss to W. W H. H I and arid the witness thought bo ho became president of the tho Erie anway And And h hr hI was wal president while he be was stockholder in your company asked Jr r. r KoJo Kellogg l If so ho he was not a a. stockholder forny forI for forny I ny len length h of time The Lbs witness Mid said he ho did not riot think that tiny ny officials of the Pennsylvania railI rail rail- I road 0 d w were ro ct contle-ct connected d with he be Standard il company WAS WASHINGTON Ir Nov 23 Attorney Attorney General B Bonaparte filed tiled today a a. petition or or a writ of certiorari in the supreme ourt of the United Unit States urging that ourt t to issue iesue a writ of certiorari to ton h. h n circuit court of appeals for tho the soy eov- I nth ath circuit t to review w the tho judgment of hat bat court r reversing versin the tho rulings of ot fudge ud e Landis Landi in the tho caso case in which tho the Standard Oil company wax waa fined fiD 29 29 t o on the char charge o of violating tho the law The att attorney rno general ikee be the position that tho the court of a ap- ap 1 pals al was without jurisdiction when hen it I Judge Landis' Landis decision |