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The Outlook

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W YORK, JANUARY 4, 1908

: Company, 287 Fourth Ave., New York. Chicago Office, Marquette Building. esident. William B. Howland, Treasurer. Karl V. S. Howland, Secretary. 1-Chief. H. W. Mabie, Associate Editor. R. D. Townsend, Managing Editor.

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had no motive for shipping over the Alton at an illegal rate.

4. Other products were carried between the same points during the same period at rates ranging from five to ten cents a hundred pounds. Therefore the six-cent rate was a reasonable one.

When the Standird Oil Company of Indiana was ined twenty-nine violation of the appealed to pubustice of the conappeal was made ames A. Moffett, diana Company, n The Outlook nce. The Comns, whose Bureau on which the inis now issued a he allegations of be remembered ch the Standard at of having ac› and Alton Railhundred pounds iting, Indiana, to s, when the only ind filed with the Commission, and 1 rate, was eightions of the Standmmarized as fol

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5. The Standard was advised by the rate clerk of the Alton that the six-cent rate had been filed with the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and it therefore had no reason to suppose that the rate was illegal.

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1. Mr. Moffett's contention seems to be that there was no rebate because the Standard did not actually pay the higher rate and have the difference of twelve cents a hundred pounds actually returned to it in money. This is merely an evasion; the rate constituted a rebate in essence, if not in form. He seems to hold that there was no discrimination because no one else is known to have paid the eighteen-cent rate. On the contrary, this very situation proves that not only was there discrimination, but that this discrimination had worked out its logical result by producing a complete state of monopoly in the vicinity of Chicago.

years covered by cago and Eastern lawful published and filed .. Whiting and East St. Louis of six. quarter cents, and the Standard shipped over two thousand cars of oil a year over that road at that rate. Therefore the Standard could have

2. The application sheet merely stated that the rates from Chicago should apply also from Whiting, enumerated the tariffs to which it referred, and named specifically the tariff containing the eighteencent rate; but it made no mention of the unfiled "Special Billing Order" containing the six-cent rate. "Of course this sort of thing was absolutely no notice to any one of the unpublished six-cent rate, nor was it intended to be."

3. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois

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Vol. 88 No. 1

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The Outlook

NEW YORK, JANUARY 4, 1908

Published by the Outlook Company, 287 Fourth Ave., New York. Chicago Office, Marquette Building. Lawrence F. Abbott, President. William B. Howland, Treasurer. Karl V. S. Howland, Secretary. Lyman Abbott, Editor-in-Chief. H. W. Mabie, Associate Editor. R. D. Townsend, Managing Editor.

When the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was fined twenty-nine million dollars for the violation of the Elkins Law, its officials appealed to public opinion against the justice of the conviction. The principal appeal was made in a statement by Mr. James A. Moffett, the President of the Indiana Company, which was reported in The Outlook shortly after its appearance. The Commissioner of Corporations, whose Bureau collected the material on which the indictment was based, has now issued a statement in reply to the allegations of Mr. Moffett. It will be remembered that the charge on which the Standard was convicted was that of having accepted from the Chicago and Alton Railway a rate of six cents a hundred pounds on oil shipped from Whiting, Indiana, to East St. Louis, Illinois, when the only rate openly published and filed with the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and therefore the only legal rate, was eighteen cents. The allegations of the Standard may be briefly summarized as follows:

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1. There was no question of rebate or discrimination in the case; it was merely a question whether the six-cent rate was legal.

2. Six cents was an open, legal rate on oil from Chicago to East St. Louis, and an "application sheet" extending this rate to Whiting had actually been filed with the Inter-State Commerce Commission.

3. During the two years covered by the indictment the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad had a lawful published and filed rate between Whiting and East St. Louis of six and a quarter cents, and the Standard shipped over two thousand cars of oil a year over that road at that rate. Therefore the Standard could have

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had no motive for shipping over the Alton at an illegal rate.

4. Other products were carried between the same points during the same period at rates ranging from five to ten cents a hundred pounds. Therefore the six-cent rate was a reasonable one.

5. The Standard was advised by the rate clerk of the Alton that the six-cent rate had been filed with the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and it therefore had no reason to suppose that the rate was illegal.

The Commissioner's Reply

Commissioner Smith replies to these arguments in a statement which may be summarized as follows:

1. Mr. Moffett's contention seems to be that there was no rebate because the Standard did not actually pay the higher rate and have the difference of twelve cents a hundred pounds actually returned to it in money. This is merely an evasion; the rate constituted a rebate in essence, if not in form. He seems to hold that there was no discrimination because no one else is known to have paid the eighteen-cent rate. On the contrary, this very situation proves that not only was there discrimination, but that this discrimination had worked out its logical result by producing a complete state of monopoly in the vicinity of Chicago.

2. The application sheet merely stated that the rates from Chicago should apply also from Whiting, enumerated the tariffs to which it referred, and named specifically the tariff containing the eighteencent rate; but it made no mention of the unfiled "Special Billing Order " containing the six-cent rate. "Of course this sort of thing was absolutely no notice to any one of the unpublished six-cent rate, nor was it intended to be."

3. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois

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