Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-20
UNITED STATES
Us NEAT trust
The Legal Battle Between Uncle
Sam and the So.Called Com-
bine Now On.
District Attorney Bethea Pre-.
sents the Peoples Side
to the Court.
Attorneys for the Packers Offer
No Objections to Tempor-
ary Injunction.

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ment in the open between the United
States government and the packers
known as the big Six" began at
o'clock today, when United States
District Attorney Bethea, before Judge
Grosscup in the United States circuit
court, made a motion for temporary
restraining order. All that has gone
before has been but light skirmishing
in laying out the lines of attack and
defense. Attorney Bethea had with
him Assistant Attorney General w. A.
Day, Solicitor General j. K. Richards
United States District Attorney Worth
ington, of Springfield H., and United
States District Attorney Joseph Keal-
ing, of Indianapolis.
| On the other side were arrayed the
attorneys for the packers, headed by
John S. Miller, comprising Thomas
A. Moran, Louis c. Grauthoff. James
F. Meagher, A. H. Veeder and Henry
NJ. Wolf.
| AS soon as the court reconvened the
afternoon recess Attorney Bethea Sc
cured recognition. He asked the priv
! ilege of calling the attention of the
court to the case OF the United States
versus Swift and Company and others
for such is the legal title of the now
famous suit, involving the existence
Of the alleged beef trust. He read
the bill praying for a temporary re-
strainfng order, and to sustain the
| petition read from great bundle of
affidavits. All these alleged the same
conditions in the meat trade, which
| has been set forth in the bill already
published, each taking UP some par
| ticular phase of the allegations. The
general purpose of their presentation
was to make out before the court
prirna facie case of disobedience and
defiance of the so-called Sherman
anti-trust laws.
| Bethea read only few of the affi-
dav1ts i'll his possession, which he
said covered the allegations, substan-
TALLY in the case. Bethea then gave
way to Attorney Day who made q
brief argument in favor OF granting
the temporary order.
| The restraining order asked for is
substantially as follows: The govern
ment asked that a temporary order is
sue from this court restraining until a
final hearing or until the further order
OF this court the defendants, Cudahy
Packing Company. Armour & Co., Ar
mour Packing Company, G. H. Ham
mond Company, Schwartzchild & Sulz-
berger Company. Nelson Morris, Ed
ward Morris and Ira Morris, j. Ogden
Armour, Patrick A. Valentine. Calvin
NJ. F'avite, Arthur Meeler. Thomas j.
Corners, Charles F. Langdon. Michael
Cudahy, Edward a. Cudahy, Patrick
Cudahy, Albert F. Borchert, Gustavus
+. Swift, Louis r. Swift, Lawrence A.
Corton, D. Edwin Hartwell. Jesse p.
Lyman, Frank E. vogel. Louis Pfael-
zer, William Russell, Albert H. veeder,
Henry Veeder. Edward c. Swift, Fer
dinand Sulzberger and w. H. Noyes,
citizens of Illinois, Massachusetts and
New York, their agents and
attorneys and all other persons acting
or claiming to act for them, from vio-
lating the provisions Of the act OF
congress entitled an ACT to Protect
Trade and Commerce Against Unlaw-
full Restraints and Monopolies" and tG
restrain packers from engaging or
continuing in any combination or con-
spiracy as to the trade IN fresh
meats The order then goes on tc
ask that the packer be restrained from
various overt acts as charged in the
bill filed and says: "At several stock
yards and open and competitive mar
kets in Chicago. Omaha, Sioux City, st.
Joseph, Mo-, Kansas City, East ST.
Louis, st. Paul or any other place in
the United States where they GUS
tomarily purchase livestock coming
from these markets"
The attorneys for the packers offered
no objection to the fling OF the petition
for temporary injunction.