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Show CLOSING ADDRESS IS MADE . IN SUIT AGAINST THE I STANDARD. OIL , Case Has Record for Bigness, the Evidence Containing in All 11,000,000 Words Frank B. Kellogg Reviews Facts as Well as Law in Action Brought Against Trust by Government, Taking Sharp Issue With Arguments of Defense St. Louis, April 10. After a con-, trr.uous argument of five days, special Urited States Attorney General Frank B. Kellogg today made his closing address in behalf of the government in the latter's suit to dissolve the S'andard Oil company of New York, uft violator of the Sherman act. The case has a record for bigness. The evidence is larger by half than ' t fiat ever before taken in a single case, the record containing in all 11.-ki0 11.-ki0 000 words. It is estimated that bv the time the court of last resorts l.'is passed upon the points at Issue the trial will represent an expenditure expendi-ture of $3,000,000 in lawyers' fees and court costs. Mr. Kellogg argued that the twenty companies signing the original "Siandard Trust agreement," were I Just as competitive, if anything more so, than the railways subscribing to th agreement in the Northern Securities Secur-ities company. The government attorney reviewed the facts, as well as the law, aud asserted as-serted that the two cases were identical, iden-tical, and that by no stretch of the imagination or sophistry could Mr. Watt-on's argument be legally or technically tech-nically logical. Mr. Kellogg took sharp issue with the defendants' maps, showing that Ihe price of crude and refined fill had fMlowed the general increase and declines de-clines of prices, of household com j modifies, even to being lower as a rule. He Insisted that the price of I both crude and refined oil had been ! bigher than the proportionate Increase In-crease of general supplies, offering a s new set of tables, prepared by Dr A. Dana Durand of the L'nlted States - bureau of corporations, in support of his contention. . , Mr. Kellogg asserted that the task of the prosecutor is seldom easy. "It was no summer vacation stunt to prepare and try this case." he added. add-ed. "The government," he said, "did not base its case upon the tittle -tattle of meddlers but upon facts. Much has been said about magazine writers and j political demagogues but the govern- inent knew, when it gathered this : evidence, that it would be reviewed by j this honorable court. "You will not find In the record the ! murmurs of the discontented, but a ' rpcord of a monopoly that never has heen, and I hope never again will be equallpd in this country." Coming to the $22.O00,O0n "Traln-or "Traln-or loan," which he said he could never nev-er trace. Mr. Kellogg claimed Ihnt when John D. Archbold testified that ; ho understood that the transaction was a mere matter of book-keeping, that the answer was an evasion. "Mr Rockefeller frank? Mr. Arch-bold Arch-bold frank? Read this record. Obviously, Ob-viously, Mr. Archbold could not answer." an-swer." exclaimed the lawyer. , Mr. Kellogg spoke seml-humorous-'? of the alleged secrecy maintain at t0 Broadway, New York. ! "There you will find a lawyer behind , "very keyhole." he said. "That the Standard Oil has been 1 successful, I do not deny," be con- tlnued "That it was ruled bv gen- j ins, I do not deny, nut this genius has been more of a combination aud monopoly that can pile up millions, if 1 unchecked." I |