The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
Additional Testimony to Be Civ
en- in Beef Trust Case.
Investigators Send East to Get
Evidence Against Packers.
SALES AGENTS CALLED
Chicago Meat Dealers First Wit
nesses of Week.
Slow Progress Made and Many
Witnesses Are Waiting.

Chicago, March 27.=Investigation
of the beef turst'' was resumed today
by the federal grand jury. The grand
jury will have for additional advisers
from now on District Attorney Baxter
of Omaha and Assistant District Attor-
ney Goodman of Chicago. 1t is said
the inquiry is likely to last two months
longer 1t is declared that when the
government has finished its investiga-
ton into the packing industry it plans
to take up railroad and private car
lines.
Chicago, March 27.-Eastern repre-
sentatives of Chicago packing firms and
allied industries are due to arrive in
the city today in response to sub
poenas commanding them to appear
before the federal grand jury, which
is investigating the alleged violations
of the interstate commerce law and
the Sherman antitrust law by the
packers. Some of the eastern con-
tingent reached the city yesterday and
reported to United States Marshal
Ames. The majority of them are sales
agents and branch house managers.
More than twenty of them are ex-
pected to respond to the summonses
during the day.
Before the eastern men are called
to the witness stand it is understood
that District Attorney Morrison Will
call a number of local wholesale and
retail dealers in meats before the jury,
and endeavOr to obtain from them the
facts concerning the alleged combina-
ton in restraint of trade in Chicago
The government experts, who spent
nearly eight months looking into the
books of the packing firms at the
stockyards, have compiled a mass of
figures which is considered evidence
that there have been repeated VIOLA
tions of the Grosscup injunction
A federal official who has been here
ever since the grand jury convened
dropped the significant remark that it,
was unn necessary for the purpose of an
investigation to go outside of Chicago
for witnesses
.sIf the government wished to in
dict the packers" he said, ''it can get
all the evidence it wants right here in
town. I have seen statements coming
from representatives of the packing
firms to the effect that they had moth
ing to fear, because they had warned
all of their employees to observe the
Grosscup injunction But 1t VIII De
shown that the employees have winked
at the warnings and that the injunc-
ton has been diSregarded by nearly
all of the packers. l beleVe L am
right in surmising that the object of
the government in subpoenaing so
many witnesses is to gather evidence
to be used in the actual prosecution.
It's not going to be a whitewash pro-
ceedings."
1t was announced by one of Mar
shall Ames assistants that no more
witnesses would be subpoenaed in
Chicago unless developments should
arise making it necessary The state
ment came after two additional Chi
cago witnesses had been summoned
to appear. One was Fl. M Tanner, q
member of the firm of McCausland,
Hoag & Tanner. commission mer-
chants at the stock yards. The other
was l. NJ Byles advertising man
ager for Morris & Co., former news
paper man. They are to appear be-
fore the grand jury early this week,
The slow process being made by the
grand Jury in the examination is caus-
nesses, and is almost certain to create |
more this week. The district attorney
planned to dispose of ten or fifteen
witnesses each day when the sub
poenas were made out, but has been
unable to examine more than six a
day AS a consequence the out of
town witnesses have accumulated, and
it is estimated that at least thirty are !
now in the city. chafing under the de- |
Law and expense imposed on them by |
the slow going methods of the gov
ernment-
Among the out of town witnesses
who are hoping they will be called to-
day are r. Beedatz. manager for Ar /
mour & Co, Omaha; Edward Welch I
of the Hammond Packing company |
Omaha: Fred Shortey, department !
manager for Swift & Co., Omaha; |
William CaIlan of the Cudahy Packing |
company. Omaha, and J. I. DormalIy, /
a wholesale meat dealer in Boston.