Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — CONTRADICTION FOR HASKELL [ARTICLE]

CONTRADICTION FOR HASKELL

Interior Department’s Reply to the Governor'* Charge. Washington, Oct. 9. —Acting Secretary of the Interior Pierce has given out a statement characterizing as “absolutely false” charges of favoritism by the secretary of the interior in the granting of a permit to the Prairie Oil and Gas company. The statement adds: “The records of the departmentshowthatthe application of the Wichita company was for an absolutely new pipe line, and was refused, as all other new applications from any person or company whatsoever would be refused under similar circumstances, because the company would not comply with the regulations of the department. “The application of the Prairie company. on the contrary, was not for a new pipe line, but for an enlargement of the facilities of a pipe line company already permitted and in operation. The Prairie company bad obtained Its permit in strict accordance with the law and the rules. The practice of the department has been u”’formly to allow any pipe line company which had already constructed a line to enlarge or extend that line if the public interest so demanded. • • • In fact the regulations require pipe line companies to extend their lines If the public interest demands and the secretary directs.”