The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-14
STOCK YARDS CONTROVERSY.
Mr.. Shells Response to the Statement
Made by Mr.. Rauh.
he indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor Of the indianapolis journal:
In your paper Of the 18th Mr.. Rauh. presi-
dent of the stock yards company, publishes
a part of the agreement which was writ
ten by him in a room selected by him and
his committee. My lips were sealed, and
now that he has published a part OF the
agreement l hope that he will publish the
letter dictated by me, which was handed
to him to submit to his committee as they
were going to the room, and also the part
of the agreement which 1 dictated at my
house and sent to him. / am glad that he
has unsealed my lips.
/ have never denied, and do not now
deny, that there were negotiations for set
Element, and in every case it was solicited
by Rauh,, his traffic manager and vice pres
ident. The 100000 TO stop the building of
the stock yards was not half the amount
claimed by my company, and would not pay
us for the damage done US and our custom
erS. This will be settled in court hereafter.
Mr.. Rauh well knew at the time why he
and his associates cut out a small part of
the agreement, and did not publish IL all.
ing of corn in place of measuring Ii in a
basket. The $4,000 was largely going to
my Eastern customers that l had bought
for for fifteen or twenty years. They were
all damaged when the resolution was
passed against us by the exchange, OF
which Rauh is a member. There were a
bAiiD VI Tia "StC
with me and wanted stock in the new stock
yards company. The way Ii leaked out
that there was to be a new stock yards
built was that one of my customers came
here and Rauh got hold of him and the
customer told it. Rauh had him two hours
in his office and then had him in the Bates
House twice and made propositions to him
to give his orders to others instead of TO
me. He took the proposition home. had II
submitted to his house; the house turned
it down, and he came back here and still
wanted to get in the stock yards which l
had in contemplation. I promised him $40.
600 stock and that per cent. of interest In
not let him have it. So Rauh saw him again,
ard he has now quit doing business with US.
1t is a well known fact that Mr.. Rauh and
Squire's buyer, Mr.. Parsons. when he came
here TO take our place, that IL he did any
business with US the other commission
to ask Mr.. Rauh If 1t is not a fact that he
had $4,000 of the N.Oc0,0W water common
stock. bed In eser1g; and went to New
and showed that this stock yards paid a
dividend on a million bonds. $4,000 pre-
ferred and a million common water?
/ want to state emphatically that Mr..
Erwin's name or anyone else's was not men
toned during our negotiations with Mr..
Rauh. The fact Is no one now interested
In the Interstate Stockyards Company. so
far as 1 know. was interested in the other
mpa that 1 propose to settle for, with
one or two exceptions. Rauh is largely re-
pOlioAD " 6CAlAlC3ACs tAttO1l hliik III
this enterprise, while there are a number OF
them that are our friends and did not want
to see us crushed by the combination
against us. There was one Of our Eastern
customers that complained so much about
their treatment here and censured US for
standing the wrong done them and US as
long as We had without exposing IT. / said
that ! was afraid OF them. and II was not
an easy matter to fight such a combination.
The reason they are SO provoked about the
Interstate Stockyards Company is that the
gentlemen associated with II are strong
financially and are all hrst-caass business
men.
A settlement was made a few years ago
by this stock yards company. / negotiated
partly the deal. and at that time there was
something like 1890 0 or $4,000 paid. and
we have never heard much about IL in the
newspapers. These new stock yards will be
built and operated. and win furnish every
thing at prices returning a reasonable profit
on the Investment 1t Is silly to talk about
stock yards having any special right over
any other business. r. r SHIEL.
IndianapoliA June u