Show STANDARD OIL REPLIES T TO GOVERNMENT Big Corporation Denies It Benefited Through Preferential Preferential I eren Rates I RENEWED CHARGES OF OFT F T CONCESSIONS 1 i l j i. i II t L H Hearing E Expected di I 4 io LO o Be a Long Drawn Out Affair j CHICAGO Oct 1 Standard oi Dili company attorneys t today day presented presented- evl dence before Judge Franklin Ferriss In I support of the contention that the tho o oil on company has bas not been tho recipient o of preferential rates from railroads In different dif dif- lr j I ferent brent sections of the tho country The hearing was wa in tho the federal building building build build- ing In a room adjoining the tho courtroom In which Judge Landis pronounced his his his' Judgment that the Standard Oil com corn company pany Y of Indiana should pay a flue fine of or and is a a. phase pharo of the tho attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt of or the government in a suit In chancery to t-o have the tho o Standard Oil on company com com- com coi- pany dissolved and cease to exist as a a. corporate entity Sp Special cia government attorneys Fr Frank Franki B B. Ke Kellogg and Charles B. B Morris forris former for former mer mci United States district attorney in Chica Chicago o represented tho government and attorneys John S. S Miller and nd Moritz Rosenthal both ot of who whom appear ap ap- pear peard d forthe oil compa company y in the spectacular spectacular spec pec fihe fine case casc represent represented d the company corn com pany before Judge J Ferriss Henry F. F Felt Felton on general traffic m man manager n. n a ager er of the Standard Oil on company was was- th tho first witness called to the tho he stand and will bo be the principal wit witness cs t to b ba bs examined in Chica Chicago Chic o. o Th The contention of the govern government government ment o on othe the s. s which are to be considered in the tho etam examination Dation of tho the railroad witnesses are arc that the Standard Oil company was wa was was' given gi r rebates bates by rail rail- road that secret concessions were made to it that preferential rates I w were were established established re for its ad advantageS advantage and that that that-in in addition in many ninny cases the railroads railroads rail rail- railroads roads so 50 the tile open rates rate that tho tho bi big oi oil company had a decided advantage over it its its' competitors On the tho the tho government contention contention con con- is that high rates were made thade by bO railroads from points POI Where independent companies had bad oil refineries in proximity to the tho Standard refineries and that low rates were made from JY points pinta inu where the bi big oil company had bad no DO com corn petition petition- r V r The defendant company seeks Becks to prove provo b by Mr Jr Felton au an and other witnesses wit wit- nesses that the allegations of preferential rates and favors aro arc not true and that the oil company has uniformly p paid id tho the same rates ask asked d' d dof of other ther com corn panics Frequent cross examination of tb the witnesses at the conclusion of different parts of tb their ir testimony is is' expected to enliven the the hearing hearin hearing ForI Ferriss For Far I riss riss who who was appointed as 8 a special I commissioner by bv the federal jud judges es of the St. St Louis district to take evidence iden e in the suit Evidence on o other her points in inthe inthe in inthe I the suit h has s been taken in in a number of or cities and land tho the government presented in inthe inthe inthe the preferential rate and railroad phases phase of the ca case e in Washington on Tho The suit was begun berun last fall faU and all the testimony tes tes- timo y w-il w willbo presented by January 1 1909 1009 T Th i present hearing is expected to continue three weeks week |