| Show OIL WITNESS WArs i 1 To All Questions G M Mayer AI Al Alt t ways Answered I I Dont f Know f COCKRELL GOT AFTER HIM HIMl HIMA A l Told Him lie II Wa Sid hick kI f And Tired Ired of lr Ir lug In to Kansas Kana Jan as City Starch 13 Fronds M II Cockrell co of ot the Interstate commerce severely leO reb reprimanded 0 O OV I Iv AV V Mayer Ma I er CI Kansas City CIt manager ot of the Oil company today loda during the Investigation Into alleged methods ot of railroads railroad and the Standard Oil com corn company pany In discriminating against nl Inde Independent pendent oil oilmen men hereabouts The lawyers for tor or tho the commission J r T 1 and Charles hones Munn a ml tile the lawyers for the Independent oil pro producers duc Frank Krank H Monnett Monnell Clifford Thorne Thome and 3 S W hULl had been beell trying hart hard to g J gt t from Mayer Iner an tin ad 1111 admission mission ml loli that tIIt theio theto was wall any connection between tho the rd Oil 01 I company tho I Union Tank Line company com pliny tho Republic lie lic Oil company the tho Oil company and other companies To all nil questions Mr answered I J do not know although ho hi has hns been hecl n a 1 manager cr of ot the tho Standard Oil company for tor 2 JS years At tim thA close clo e of ot IlK his hi testimony te Mr Cornell asked him Tell this commission arc the lie Re public Oil company nil II the Waters Il Oil company part of ot the Stand Standard ard Oil all company fIr I do not know sir Ir What Is b your our best Impression about fIr I havn ha o none Dolt Dont you ou feel and know In III your our heart that thY are arc all part and parcels of at tho the same arne company fIr I do 10 not know Dont you feel In your our heart It Is toT toTI I t dont know sir Then the veteran senator pounded tho the desk with his hI list and said severely I r am nm tired and sick of ot thin effort made mado by Oil people to con conceal Conceal ceal this fact when every ver moan man woman and alii child knows know It Is Ii so mo Now everybody wants the told here und and why shy wh dont you lull tull It Every nr tub ought to stand upon Us Its it own bottom and you ou folks ought not to tu dodge dOlKe this Mutation further I 8 veral witnesses ses I entitled today to tn discrimination II by hy railroad against Independent In Independent dependent producer Noll Uter H 1 U Ii formerly nn on agent nt fil Topeka Kan Ian for tor tho Oil but now lO an nn Independent deal deni dealer denier er was WOM ns placed on Oil tho the stand In iii reply to questions Mr Nr Ir salt HId that white while agent for tor the tho Standard at t Topeka I he was wa Instructed to watch nil all ship shipments shIpment meats ments of at oil to 10 that point nod a III I to 10 ascer ascertain thIn tain the time name namo ot of the shipper and the tha th point of nf destination How lIow would you get Information i from railroads as lIS to your competitors shipments I j never went to railroad officials MM said tho the witness I r always got Kot my Information from trum of the tall tail road raid I was allowed IS 8 n Il month to spend with railroad In buying drinks nn making myself n u good fel fellow tt low nid I was WM as permitted to tn Rive give away oil gasoline to railroad and nud report such gifts Kittl as ns It donations The St 3 S a II month was avas sent mo mc In III a 1 personal check cheek by K I P 1 Pratt man manager ager oger for the Standard In Kansas City and later Inter by b J 3 W S Mayer who sue suc succeeded him as ns manager My 1 Instructions how to upend spend tho the check chec never nover came caine by letter They were always given In person I f was also uio In Instructed to promise prom Iso railroad good with tim the Oil company I 1 was Instructed to tell them that a n nan man could get gel I a U salary Minn with tho time Standard greater gr ater than thuu the tho president lent of the United received This Itom of ot bribery was WaR Inaugurated by bythe bythe bythe the Standard Oil company and hus been In III vogue for years cars |
