Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-23

was already established there. Thst
vas WIS indicated to the witness the
existence OF combine. The witness
said 70 PER cent. Of TIE butchers At Chi
cago hsd been
CRUSHED OUT OF THE KILLING BQsINKsS
by the Chicsgo dressed beef men and
compelled to take dressed beef
Senator Henderson and the witness
here INDUCED In c lengthy colloqu7 as 10
the mathods for preventing the "5ig
four" IF, m rolling up more millions Ct
money and allowing the profits to go &c
the small dealers and for the'
benefit Ct consumers. The witness
thought state inspection would &C.
c 1mplish the purpose. Continuing the
witness ssid that whenever the butchers
were crushed out dressed meats were
sold st 8 higher price than 1t had been
when supplied by the butchers. About
GO to 20 per cent CT cattle sold for can
ming purposes went to the people for
beef. Simply the very poorest cuts went
Into Cans. Beef ran from to Is cents
per pound retail ct Detroit.
Warren Buck wss 3 retail
butcher o; Asron, Ohio. He tesd-
fed that in 1887 the labor
upiors OF Akron passed s resolution to
not buy NESTS Of Armour & Co. The
butchers Of Akron were happy, but II
few dsy5 Armour seat down carload Of
meat and undersold them sn. The Ar
mour concern had two stores in the hesrs
Of Akron and actually gave away
TIE BEST MEATIN THE LAND.
The result was the signing Of an agree
ment by the butchers association TO give
preference TO ths house Of Armour s Co.,
the latter agreeing to close their
retail establishments. Armour & Co.
teen placed local scent in Akron
bu. instead OF closing their two stores,
! they sold them to local butchers to be run
to the great detrimeDt OF the trade. Prior
to this forced arrangement, ca tile slaugh-
tered for consumption in Akron were
purchased in the country surrounding the
city, where the farmers raised very fine
cattle. The witness Dough. now from
Armour, and thought the consumers got
their meat much cheaper thsn before Ar
mour & Co. came in. Different parts OF
tne same city had different prices for the
same N est.
Senator Cullom-are syou In corre-
srondence with Armour's agent at Akr on
r0H?
WitDess-Yss, wrote him telling him
|
committee.
Senator Cullom-why did you think i.
necessary to DO that?
WItness-He wrote to me asking ne
about II. l am no. here in A?moul's
| Interest.
John D1f CT Detroit, butcher Ct
twenty two yetrs experience testified tha.
he was met 81 Sheboygan six years ego
| by Armo urls meat and closed out Of tbs
market there. At twenty~siX places il
Mich an outside OF Detroit Armour mas:
was cent per pound higher than in De
troit. In those towns butchers who BIZ
years ago were well to do are now bank
rupt. c. F. Mcdonald Of Chesoygau,
Mich. who buys lots Of meat daily told the
witness they would not sell him pound
Of meat unless he belonged to the butch
ers' union. The witness thought America
WAS not free country so far as the meat
supply was concerned.
The committee then adjourned until s
p. m
| THE NIGHT SESSION.
! Only one witness was examined at the
night SESSION, A. G. Cassidy, an Est s.!
LOUIS commission man. Mr.. Cassidy
explained the difference between Chicago
and 81. Louis as cattle markets on purely
business principles, and Claimed
that II St. Louis did the right
thing the cattle question would come out
all right. Il WAS all nonsense to call the
"big four" OF Chicago robbers. They
were business msr, and their mission in
life YVES to make their capital Invested
earn from 6 to pr Can't, and they
we're succeeding IN doing so. TIE
talk Cf combines WIS ridiculous.
I. was purely bas!ness proposition
Mr.. CASSIDY gave the CONF !Ltee some II.
formation IS to how the markets are
made. Far tostscce 3 stock man will
fad the psls full. becomes alarmed aud
sells qucsiY alta low figure, 'hus estab
fishing the price for the osy. NJ. Cassidy
mace very free with the digaifed se1aA
tors ana his examination ofeced much
tru5emeht for the spectators.
Tae committee will resume work st IL
O'clock to-ucrrow morning.
DBNIAL FROM FL rAso.
Special to the Gazette.
Ell PAso, TEX, NV. 22-In tia
Associated Press report OF t, simon;
given yesterday st S.. Louis before the
senate committee investigating the Cstls
e1estion J. G. Beatty CT this city ID re-
ported as saying firm vi which he WAS
connected hsd built $4,000 refrigerator
here and had 20 shut down On sccount OF
G refusal by tie railroad companies TO
furnish cars, this refusal caused by Ar
moIr's irAuenca. This stateme.t Is
without foundation The only refrigerator
company ever established here is the e!
Paao Ice xud Refrigerator Company
OF which Z. S. Newman is president and
msrsger In "a interview today Mi.
Newman ssys Bar. BesttJ's cattle CON-
plny il nc: here Low nor hays they ever
been interested IN the refrigerator here.
The railroads here did all they pc sibly
could to help Us make success OF the
business, and we are now arranging for
our own cars. he further stated that
mos. all of their beef Was sold for
cents.