The leader., 1905-07-05
THE BEEF TRUST
MACNATES INDICTED.
ARMOUR, SWIFT. cUDAHAY AND 9TH.
ERS CALLED TO ANSWER.
The indictments Apply to Individual.
as Well as Corporations.

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thing over three months, and
during which more than one huns
dred witnesses were examined,
the Federal grand jury this after
noon handed down it's report.
Seventeen men prominent in the
packing industries of the country,
we're indicted for violation Of the
4 Sherman ANTITRUST law, and four
officials of the SchwarschiId e.
| lSulzberger Company were indict-
ed for alleged illegal rebating to
the railroads. Besides these indi-
[vidual indictments bills were
/ voted against FIVE corporations,
4 Armour e Co., Swift e Co., Nell
Eson Morris & Co., the Cudahy.
Packing Company and the Fair
banks Canning Company.
4 Those Indicted.
The men indicted for alleged
conspiracy in restraint Of trade,
which constitutes violation of the
fisherman act, are:
| J. Ogden Armour, president
Armour & Co.; Charles Armour.
of Armour 8 Coz; Arthur Meek
Ter, general manager for Armour
& Co.; T. j. Connor, director
i Armour & Co.; P. A. Valentine,
treasurer of Armour & Co.; L. f.
lSwift, president of Swift & Co. !.
i Charles Swift, Of Swift & Co;
Lawrence A. Kaston, treasurer of
lSwift & Co.; Arthur f. Evans,
attorney for Swift & Co.; r. G.
i McManus, attorney for swift e.
4 Co.; Edward Cudahy, of Cudahy
q Co. S. g. Hartwell, secretary
of Swift & CO.; Edward F. Swift,
Ivice- president of Swift e Co. !;
Edward Morris, secretary of Mel
lson Morris & Co.; and r. A.
4 Morris, OF Nelson Morris & Co.
j The four employees of SchWarss
child e Sulzberger Company who
were indicted for alleged rebating
with the railroads are all connect.
ed With the traffic department of
1.-THE Corporation. Their names
are Samuel We'll, B. s. Cusey, Q.
4. d and NJ p. skipuorth.
indictments Identical.
The indictments voted for al
legged violation of the anti-trust
law we're identical in each case.
4 The indictments contained each
eight counts, which were spread
over sixty three typewriter.
pages.
4 The first and second counts in
the indictments pertained only to
/ beef sold in the domestic trade.
\ The ninth and tenth counts relate
to beef sold in foreign trade. The
| third count charges conspiracy
in restraint of trade and CONE
merce among the States and with
| foreign nations in fresh, dried,
lsmoked, cured, canned and pick
led meats and in certain BY pro-
ducts of the packing industry,
Viz: Sausage castings, sausage
1 containers, cleo stock, stearine
and oils, and also in butter, eggs
and poultry. This count charges
that the trade which defendants
we're carrying on in the above
& commodities was in restraint Of
trade in several ways:
The Specifications.
/. Competition in the buying of
cattle at the stock yards in differ
lent cities was to be prevented and
destroyed by the defendants, who
required their purchasing agents
Ito refrain from bidding against
each other.
2. Competition as to trade in.
the above commodities in foreign
land domestic markets was to be
prevented and destroyed by the
defendants fixing nencompetitiVe
land unreasonable prices for such
commodities, and requiring their
representatives il The different
markets to fix prices By agree
ment from day to day according
Ito what the market would stand.
8. The supply Of the above
commodities was to be curtailed
land restricted whenever necessary
Ito be fixed.
A. The United States was diVid-
ed up into territories between the
defendants, and each was to keep
Its own territory without inferfer-
ence By the others.
B. There was d division as to
1.-THE volume of trade allowed to
leach defendant In q given market.
IF one packer sold more than his
percentage during given week
he was Obliged TO pay an ante
Iof SO much per hundredweight,
according to The territory iii which
the matter occurred, into a pool
TO cover the excess Of sales, and
this fund was divided among the
packers who fell short ID their
sales.
6. Certain corporations, names
lIy, tIle Aetna Trading Company
land the 0ppenheimer Manufacture
ing Company, were to / g appoint
led exclusive agents Of the defend
lants to handle the sausage castings
land containers and these c0lnpa-
lnies were to make arrangements
with the several concerns which
had been handling such merchan4
diee is the markets 81 Che world
for work ing ID harmony and con.
trolling the output and price Of
the merchandise This scheme in-
p0lvea the destruction of tank