"And to all others?"
"$1.44½."
"But there were no other outside shippers," he pleaded—how could there be?
There was only one important member in Pennsylvania of the oil combination who could be caught with a subpœna. At his first appearance in court, on the witness stand, he took lofty ground.
"I decline to answer."[154]
Put on the stand again, he was asked:
"Were you allowed a rebate amounting to 64½ cents per barrel?"
"No, sir; not to my knowledge."[155]
Put on the third time and compelled to produce his books, he had to read aloud in court the entries showing the payment he had thus denied under oath.
"There was a total allowance of 64½ cents per barrel."[156]