The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-04
FOUGHT WITH FIRE.
A New Way to Suppress
Competition.
METHODS OF THE TRUST.
Some Evidence That Mr.. Burrows
Committee Can Have Against the
Great Whisky Combine.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Feb 3-At the opening
OF the second days session Of the National
Whisky Dealers and Distllers' convention
this morning the committee on permanent
organization presented the draft of con-
stituton. The instrument provides that
the name of the organization shall be the
American Distilers' and Wholesale Liq-
uor-dealers' Associations"
1t was decided to have printed 5000 copies
Of the resolution denouncing the whisky
trust for distribution among members Of
Congress
j. b. Wathen was unanimously elected
president; j. FL. Holmes of Cleveland. Ohio,
was elected first vice-presdent, and w. L.
Lee Of st. Louis second vice. president.
President Wathen announced at this
afternoons session that the board of con-
troll would meet On March 1, when secre-
tary and treasurer would be chosen.
A resolution was adOuteG looking to the
appointment OF trustee by the whisky
trust to take charge of the rebate fund.
The following letter, charging the
whisky trust with resorting to the most
desperate means for destroying COMPETE
ton, was received by Chairman Poyntz to-
day:
CINCINNATI, Feb 1.-CAarleS p. Poyatz,
ESq.-DEAR SIR: Among the business
methods of the whisky trust now being
investigated at Washington none are more
important than it's methods of suppressing
competition. / was employed by the secre-
tary Of the d. and o. f. Company for large
sum of money to destroy their great Chicago
rival He furnished me the apparatus to
place under a tub and start fire which
would have swept the plant to destruction.
He was arrested and speedily indicted, but
the trust lawyers were always on hand to
see that no hearing was had. and after
much putting off the case was finally
dropped. Myself and others with ndisputa BILE
evidence, were always ready to testify and
have the facts to-day. | have sent strong
recommendation to Burrows of the Con-
gressional Committee VIII you please
have these m ehods Of SURPRISING cOmpe-
titon brought to the notice of the coE-
mittees of both houses of Congress? Very
respectfully, T. S. DEwAR.
Mount Lookout station, Cincinnati"
1t will be remembered that these charges
was made against The trust some time ago,
and was then fully aired in the press. The
dstillery which it IS said it was attempted
to destroy was the great Shuefeldt concern.
w ASHINdION, IGUs o. He
tee Of the House Judiciary Committee ap-
pointed to examine into the whisky trust,
as proposed by the resolution introduced by
Burrows, began the inquiry to-day by hear
ing Burrows His information regarding
the trust was limited to newspaper articles.
The investigation will be continued to-mor-
row.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The Sun prints what
it claims is the true history Of the recent
dealings in the whisky trust shares told the
first time. 1t shows that some keen West
ern men attempted to play jim Keene. man
ager of the pool, false; how Keene detected
them, but professed to accept their denials
of treachery, and how he turned around and
made a million out Of the Western men,
which they had expected to make out of
their own partners. The pool proposed TO
buy 80, 600 shares, and before this was done
Keene became suspicious of the Western
selling clique. despite their protestations of
innocence. He discovered they were SELL
ing and buying on the quiet and began load
ing up the treaeherous members of the pool,
with the result that when the turn was
called they found themselves unwilling
owners of stock they brought here to sell at
profit. Keens and his friends won fully
81, 600. 00O-enough to wipe out The pools
losses in the bull side.