The companies thus favoured by the _Standard_ made their competitors pay double rates. One of these latter produced before the Inter-State Commerce Commission the scandalous tariffs demanded of them: On the _Louisville and Nashville Railroad_, increased rates to competitors of 87 to 333 per cent.; On the _Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific_, from 63 to 267 per cent.; On the _St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern_, from 82 to 257 per cent. Systematic negligence in transport was proved with regard to competitors. The _Union Tank Line Company_, which owns tank-wagons as the _International Sleeping Car Company_ owns restaurant cars, would only put them at the disposal of the _Standard_, and compelled its adversaries to dispatch their oil in barrels, which is much more costly. The Trust alone was entitled to lay its pipe-lines beside the railway-lines or underneath the track. It possessed 35,000 miles of such lines at the end of last century--or rather the _National Transit Line_, which acts as its instrument, owned them. Such abuses could not be allowed to continue. The inquiry by the Hepburn Committee revealed a multitude of crying injustices. For example, it was enough for the _Standard_ or the _South Improvement_ to telegraph "_Wilkinson and Co._ have received a truck which only paid $41.50; screw them up to $57.50," and the order was executed. The Charter of the _South Improvement_, which had even succeeded in acquiring the right of expropriation in order to construct its pipe-lines, was withdrawn under the pressure of indignant oil-producers. But the Federal Government of the United States will never succeed in crushing the _Standard Oil_. Its Two Dissolutions--Roosevelt's Fight against the Standard Oil Twice over, in 1892 and 1911, its constitution was judged illegal, but in vain. In 1892 the system of nine trustees was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Ohio. The trustees voted the dissolution of the Trust, but continued to administer all the corporations in the same way until 1899. The Trust was apparently divided into twenty distinct companies; the nine old trustees distributed the shares in such a way as to possess the majority in each one. Thus they made sure, as before, of unity of direction. Rockefeller had reversed the judgment of the court. Here is the legal formula, which is dignified in its simplicity: "John Rockefeller has placed in the hands of the said attorney 256,854/292,500 of the total shares held by the said trustees on July 1, 1892, in each of the companies whose shares were deposited."