The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-02
BEEF PACKERS
ARE INDICTED
Seventeen True Bills Returned by
Federal Grand Jury.
TEN COUNTS IN EACH ONE
VIOLATION OF ANTITRUST LAW
ALLEGED.

- HICAGO, July 1.-The federal grand
jury today handed in a report in
dieting seventeen men prominent
in the packing industries of the country
for violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, and four officials of the Schwarz-
child & Sulzberger company for alleged
rebating to the railroads. Besides these
individual indictments. bills were voted
against five corporations. Armour &
Co.. Swift & Co. Nelson Morris & Co,
the Cudahy Packing company and the
Fairbanks Canning company.
The men indicted tor alleged con-
Spiracy in restraint of trade. which
constitute violations of the Sherman
act, are;
Names of Indicted Men.
j. Ogden Armour, president of Ar
moUr & Co
Charles Armour of Armour & Co.
Arthur Meeker, general manager for
Armour & co.
P. A. Valentine, treasurer of Armour
G. Co.
samuel McROberts. assistant treas
urer of Armour & co.
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift &
Co.
Charles Swift of Swift & Co.
Lawrence a. Carton, treasurer Of
Swift & Co.
Arthur F. Evans, attorney for Swift
&, Co.
r. c. McManus, attorney for Swift
&, Co.
a. H. veeder. general counsel for
Swift & Co
Edward Cudahy OF Cudahy & Co.
D E Hartwell. secretary of Swift &
Edward Swift, vice president of Swift
& CO.
Edward Morris. secretary of Nelson
Norris & Co.
Ira w Morris of Nelson Morris &
Co.
The four employees of SchwarzchiId &
Sulzberger, who were indicted for al
legged rebating with the railroads. are
all connected with the traffic depart
ment of the corporation. Their names
are Samuel We'll. B. s Cusey, c. E.
Todd and V. D. SkipwOrth.
Contains Ten Counts.
The indictments voted for alleged vio-
lation of the antitrust law were iden-
teal in each instance The indictments
contained each ten counts.
The first and second counts of the
indictments pertained only to beef sold
in domestic trade The third count
charges a conspiracy in restraint of
trade and commerce among the states
and with foreign nations in fresh.
dried, smoked, cured, canned and pic
kled meats, and in certain by-productS
of the canning industry, viz: Sausage
casing, sausage containers. oleo stock
stearine and oils. and also in butter.
eggs and poultry. This count charges
that the trade which the defendants
We're carrying on in the above-nanred
commodities was to be restrained in
several ways.
First, competition in the buying of
cattle at the stock yards in different
cities was TO be prevented and des-
trOyed by the defendants. who required
their purchasing agents to refrain from
teStifying against each other
Second, competition to the sale
of the above commodities in foreign
and domestic markets was to be pre-
vented and destroyed by the defendants
fixing nOn-cOmpetitiVe and unreason-
able prices for such commodities. and
requiring their representatives of the
different markets to fix prices by agree
ment from day to day according to
what the market would stand.
Third, the supply of the above COM
modities was to be curtailed and res
tricted whenever necessary to main
tain the prices so fixed.
Divided Up the Territory.
Fourth, the United States was di-
vided up into territories between the
defendants. and each was to keep its
own territory without Interference by
the others.
Fifth there was a division as to the
volume of trade allowed to each de-
PENDANT in a given market; if one
packer sold more than his per centage
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