| Show STANDARD OIL GO COI COIAS WAS AS IN COLLUSION t With the St Louis and Iron Moun Mountain I tain tam Railroad so it is Charged j LATTER AGENT FOR FORMER t 1 t S Told TI Ir of the Methods Used U III IIII 4 i ro h I 1 i n May 11 Direct cluing or of collusion between the tho Oil L company and RII tho St Lents R k irona Iron a Mountain tn 11 II IIO rondo during the tho I seCOnd cl Onys R hearing nf it the tI of t tho Iii 0 ola II II I III between tho the theall oil all n Y and tho CI IIII al CO 4 C of oC the l country Co tho tint Nearly 1011 running snafu north til rt mid west tram It Cli ICHIRO I win was rop resented today hinny boo tho the t commerce to when HIP InvestigatIon d Into tho limn if of the tho Stand Oil Olt company with filth tin the lI win Willi resumed Ic Atty Lu La Forgo 1110 t Oil all company of ot Kentucky I opened tho by hy u n cro wc of nt of ot Illi 1111 Illinois I III t tn n nois n ls who was ho Iho hut last witness fit at the thu hearing yesterday The Tho rend 1111 n 1 of ot lot Int 10 1 tern written writ ton by I In In III which ho to make trouble for the tho they y Oil company o ho lie had halt hadI I boon hren eon refused u n Yours of ot nb nee One Olio or of the tho letters rend 1 I mean to maw make nil the tho for tor tho till company compass I 1 ran Your oUI attorney Mr 1011 attacked my bo hr 1 fore foro t c l laturo nt at HI and I will rot trel ot oven v n I am rim through Zd admitted being tho limo wilier of tho limn letters Is I It not true truo that you have about i 1500 1000 loiters letters mad in ha your g possession belonging to 10 tho the Oil company ully of Kentucky naked asked Mr h hLa La Foi Fargo go goI I I have havo a II large lano number of It letters and papers parelI addressed to or of tho the company lid letters written by hy them to their witness replied now How dill did you K get t l In tho the Bamo samo way WilY that tor for years I f 1 grit gat rit information for tor the tho Standard Oil company a Atty A tty IA 11 Forge FOlgo then read a n letter r written by U i Maxon f to tl 0 C M ill Pratt It r nn mi officer of ot the tho Standard Oil company ili K In III New KII York YOI In which ho he said that lie ho hail obtained letters loiters from one of tho the agents In Ohio and had allowed Commissioner to lo copy 1 l them fur for use uso In prosecuting tho the corn com company pany t In answer tg questions of ot the attorney I soy ney pushes passes pu e Maxon said MiLl that n ho Ito had passes on nearly every rail rall rallI I load In Ills hili territory and used them thom In traveling on tho the company business bu lie Ile tho the Passes lIel he said saki from Crom Cromi rum i and other officers of tho the Standard OH Oil company A J Davidson l president of tho the St Sti i Louis R Han lIon Francisco road followed Mr Air Maxon on tho the stand He 14 I sold said tint that I there thero arc no lines on tho the right of ot ofay otway why Ids way ay of or his company for rOl any considerable idle ble distance nail and that the tho road run ha has hall no j contract to Install In Ia toll tull n pipe line Ho Ile ll said that the th Cudahy company hind had made nuda ma e application to Install a 0 line lino front from tho the Kansas oil Holds tu to St ot And that Hint the proposition do da dined by the executive X I committee of th tho o railroad Tho T Ito n tine said alit that ho hI 1 does not nn t hellove believe that tho tilt Cudahy com cn company o i pany y la ie with n the Standard in Iu interests y crests Do you yon know of ot any Ien on why the t t Cudahy people should not he given the tho right tight to construct a n 1 pipe line and und the should bo ho given Iven such a n aright aright right asked olner Prouty I r can cau think of ot no reason hull uld Mr r Davidson J F p Tucker chairman of ot tho UtA Central Freight 1 followed and was wan IU ut at some garni length regarding the manner In which the mural Triune as association I att conducted lie He was sue HUI on the stand by II II IL J Colin Calm of Kt St rouls who was tens connected with the Oil and the Standard Oil company com 11 II for rol or the sale Bale of or nil iii Tin rho hr nc of ot the tho former fort n company c ant are he ho null checked up liy hy auditors of fit tilt tho Standard Oil company The wit Wil witness ness neN I II declared than on nn the published l tariff of the Missouri MIs lurl road a re to reduction of It IV l rents cents per pm hundred on oils IH III Ii 1 for to I If the tho lino Ilse tinder tIc the Mississippi MIsI river The Tho Wa l Oil company up to tn three throe years y uso ugo he sad Hold owned two lines passing under the lIw river Than Tho lion IlOn Mountain the witness said hail had noted acted as an ml agent in t securing bust bull bustness ness fur for or th the Standard Oil company from all small towns In hr southern Mis Missour MIssouri sour receiving n a compensation for Cor or all nil allwork work Worl done Agents of ot the road ho he Bald noted acted I also Aiso as us agents for tor the oil com coin puny PUll For Kor their net vices they tho a paid a u commission of 1 t cent a n gallon The witness said that he as ns nn un agent of ot th the Standard Oil had op pointed now nol railroad agents n In where vacancies existed The test luat witness of or the day was SI S SI SI I Hibbs of or Peoria III who gave evi evl evidence evidente dence dente tho methods of ot crush log InJo ng Independent dealers similar to that given chen by II previous witnesses During his testimony Atty tty Miller representing the Standard Oil all compan co objected to tn the evidence claiming that It II had hilll no bearing upon the relations of ot the lite company wit the railroads and anal saying that Hint It simply was w ns a lot of or ofIn muckraking In Will Well replied Commissioner Horn Clem eats if It the Standard 1 Oil company Is I In tt Inthe Inthe the muck bock I 1 see el no ho reason why a rake should nut not bo hI used use I IThe The hearing will be he 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