The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-09
r. r. Shiel & Co.
Antitrust Live stock Market.


Union Stock Yards. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind
We had good receipts last week. but nothing
like enough TO MI our orders. We have butchers
and packers all over the East that we have
lieye we have rendered them honest service. We
have bought stock on the market and given IL 20
y ; = sna we ccnt p - ;" shin The Trust which
Is a combine Of all the commission firms here.
passed a resolution declaring they would not sell
TO US and putting us out OF business Inis We
passed on the grounds that we would not weigh
Of ali the scales. When they sent a COMMITTEES
to w.. IN rs. we asked them TO submit their
grievances in writing. and we would answer In
writing: but this they refused 10 do. az they were
afraid OF our answer. The fact f. the scales were
not the real cause. 1t was because we would nos
join their Trust and let them regulate our bu4-
ness. The scales we refused TO weigh ON were
not correct and we knew A. They were taken
out the week after we were put out OF business
and repaired. and were still Incorrect. and were
taken out a week later and new ones put in We
had always weighed about all our hogs on the
scale next to our asserting pens. and that wcald
give US the hogs much faster than we could astort
them. At times We would buy 3.co TO 4.oo hogs
early. and IL they were weighed on all the scales
our pens would not hold them We often told
them we would give sc n hundred more for hoEs
weighed on the correct scale. and give US the hoEs
as fast as we could assert them They wanted
to weigh hogs TO US at : a. m. ana we eou,o nos
assert them until 2 p. m. They wanted 70 get up
TO the bucket shops at the opening OF the chicago
market. In fact many OF the statesmen had mose
interest in the bucket shops than In the sale OF
the stock. One bucket shop here at the yards has
shut down since they began the fight against us,
ana the OlAcT Is TcICflcu dbo2t a W <A@<
down. The large commission they charged en-
sbled them TO speculate heavily In Chicago. We
do no outside speculation. but confne ourselves
strictly TO the stock business. We charge only
half the commission the Trust does. and we have
always bought double decks for s. and we now
sell them for IS. IL is more work TO buy one
double deck than to sell two. Twenty years ago
a deck of hogs was sold for from 81 TO =. Every
thing else has gone down since then. but since
the Trust was organized they put the commissions
up. They want the buyer TO do all the work and
stand the bad scales and slop hogs put In. ana
sold as car hogs. We bought a deck OF hogs one
day, and when they were weighed we got 500
pounds and the same day we bought 10000 pounds.
and when they were weighed We got 5000 pounds.
A salesman sold a string of hogs. and when the
tickets came in for collection there would be one
ticket marked up and the other down. III the
Trust was honest, why didn't they regulate the
wrongs they knew they were doing every week.
We challenge them 10 point TO a corrupt act or
ours in twenty years. Hereafter we Will call a
pick a pick and a spade a spade There have
been many things changed and wrongs rfghted.
and there will be more wrongs righted before they
get through with us. We had just one-third OF
all here to-day, and strong market. and &c highef.
We could have used all here IL the Trust would
have sold us. and then not had half enough 20 MI
our orders. We quote: 80 to $50 at S.@ 70 H.W.
and 200 to go at 1890 to 1896. and 100 TO 80 az
s.. S2is 10 $3.50. Pigs and light Workers, 0o 10
$3.50. Cattle market reported lower In Chicago
to-day.