“Tom Scott, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., was questioned whether we could have, if there was any means by which we could have, the same rate of freight as other shippers got, and he said flatly, ‘No.’
“And we asked him then, if we shipped the same amount of oil as the Standard, and he said, ‘No.’
“We said that ‘if they had not sufficient cars to do the business with we would put on the cars.’
“Mr. Scott said that they would not allow that, and said that ‘the Standard Oil Co. were the only parties that could keep peace among the roads.’”
Cassatt, Vice-President, confirms the above and adds:
“The discrimination would be larger on a high rate of freight than a low rate of freight;” also admits that the “Standard Oil Co. had some 500 cars full here and at Philadelphia and Baltimore; that he had not discovered it until recently.”
Mr. Lombard further testified:
“Refineries were thus shut down for want of cars.
“Cassatt threatened, if the independents built the Equitable Pipe Line or any other lines of pipe [as follows]:
“‘Well, you may lay all the pipe lines you like, and we will buy them up for old iron.’