The Iola register., 1902-05-09
TO BRING ACTION
INC Beet rrust is TO be Prosecuted

The Beef Trust is to be Prosecuted
ny scripps-McRae Press Assn.
Jefferson City, May morris
Crandle, a former St. Louis butcher
was the first witness in the beef trust
inquiry today, He testified that when
he tried to buy car load of cattle to
slaughter, an agent representing
Nelson Morris, the packer, told the
farmer that if he sold to the butcher,
he could not sell cattle to the packers
The farmer called off the deal.
Morris said the packers recently be-
gan selling direct to the large retail
customers. w. l.. Tame formerly
salesman for Swift ~ Co testified
that the.packers drove the st. Louisiana
Mound City packing company out of
business by having their city sales.
men followed by men who offered
lower prices. Tame said one hundred
to three hundred butchers we're driven
out of business in St. Louis since
January.
Both Morris and Tame gave cumu-
lative testimony regarding the fixing
OF prices for the coming week, rebates,
and the packers black list. Both said
beef in St. Louis would be cheaper if
the city ordinance did not forbid
driving Texas cattle through the
streets, and Morris thought the
packers made a dollar and half to
two dollars profit per hundred pounds
at the present.prices.
WILL PROSECUTE.
Jefferson City, May Elm the
opinion of Attorney General Crow the
evidence disclosed today in the inquiry
before Chief Justice Burgess in the
supreme court into the alleged beef
trust is sufficient to justify proceed
ing through the courts onlbehalf of the
state against the beef packers OF Mis-
souri, on theI charge Of violating the
Missouri antitrust law. That Attor-
ney General Grow will ask for a writ
OF custer from the Supreme court in
few days to prevent the packers, said
to be in the combine to fix prices, from
doing business in Missouri so long as
they meet to regulate prices to the re-
tailers, there is little doubt Attor-
ney General Grow believed before he
gave the packers.opportunity to testify
in a preliminary hearing that he had
facts sufficient to bring action on,
but sought rather to have hearing
prior to any prosecution being insti-
tuted.
The packers saw ht, on advice of
their counsel, not to appear here to-
day, and there made a mistake of their
lives, as, with II packer present and
refusing to testify, he could have been
held in contempt and habeas corpus
proceeding to secure his release might
have been brought and the validity of
the antitrust law thus would have
been presented regularly before the
court en- banc OF the supreme court and
the inquiry avoided. Now it seems
that the matter will be brought into
court on an original proceeding of
the attorney general directed against
the packers. Attorney General Crow
is confident of his case and will push
the matter with all speed.
ACTION IN CHICAGO.
BY scripps-M -McRae Press Assn.
Chicago, May Federal district
attorney Bethea arrived this morning
from Washington. The bill against
the alleged beef trust will be fled
soon. The attorney general approved
it, making only slight changes. The
instrument will allege that six big
packers in Chicago have a combine to
raise prices and unlawfully manipu-
late the markets. Aid from the trans
portation companies enabled the com
bine to squeeze the market at will.
One feature of the bill may be con-
strued to effect the confscation OF all
meat shipped by the trust.
BY scrlpps- McRae Press ASSN
ANOTHER COMBINE
Omaha, May Hugh Kennedy,
proprietor of small packing house
here, received query from an asso-
citation of New Workers asking whether
he cares to join in the establishment
of an antitrust packing company
house. The association has Il million
capital with an increase OF five mil
lionsif the houses are builtat Chicago,
Kansas City and Omaha.
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