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Show TO INVESTIGATE STANDARD OIL Final Steps to Be TaKen To-ward To-ward Getting Complete Chain of Evidence on a Charge of Rebating. , CHICAGO, July 30. When the grand, jury convenes in Chiesgo one week from today, final steps wltf be taken toward forging a complete chain of evidence against the Standard Oil company and some of its "high officials which the Government Gov-ernment prosecutors hope will lead to indictments and prosecutions nnder the anti-rebate law. To this end Attorney-General Moody has had some of his best legal talent at work-here for several days analyzing the evidence taken before the grand jury at Cleveland a few weeks ago and Freparing a line of procedure that will ortify the testimony already adduced. The chief task of weaving a net about those alleged to be guilty of law-breaking law-breaking will fall to -the lot ef John J. Sullivan, District Attornev for the northern district of Ohio, wno was in charge of the investigation into the re-: lations of the Standard company and railroads at Cleveland. The proceeding will be based upon deals between the company and railroads rail-roads for the handling of its product and the charges made for the same as compared with the rate fixed for independent inde-pendent concerns. There will also be evidence concerning alleged discriminations discrimi-nations in the - matter of storage charges in favor of the oil company. |