The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-07-06
lNDIC1 EIGHTEEN or .
LEADING PACKERS
Beef Trust Gases Reach Climax
in Federal District Court
at Chicago.
A JURY o
This Marks the Goal Toward Which
Government Secret Service Agents
Agents Have Been Striving
for a Long Time.

Chicago, July 4.-After an investiga,
ton which has lasted something oye
three months, and during which more
than 100 witnesses We're examined, the
federal grand jury last Saturday hand
ed in it's report. Seventeen men prom
inent in the packing industries of the
country Were indicted for violation of
fou
officials OF the Schwafzcaild & Sulz-5
berger Packing company We're indicted
for alleged illegal rebatingt to the rail-
roads. Besides these individual indict-s
ments, bills We're voted against five
corporations, Armour & Co, Swift &
Co, Nelson Morris & Co, the Cudahy
Packing company and the Fairbanks
Canning company. The men indicted
for alleged conspiracy in restraint OF
trade, which constitutes violation of
the Sherman act, are:
j. Ogden Armour, president of Ar
mour & Co.; Charles Armour, of Ar
mour & Co.; Arthur Meeker, general
manager for Armour 81 Co.; I. j.. Con-
ners, director, Armour & CO.; p. "A.
Valentine, treasurer of Armour & Co.;
Samuel McRoberts. assistant treasurer,
of Armour & Co.; Louis +. Swift, presi-i
dent of Swift & Co..; Charles Swift, Of
Swift & Co.; Lawrence A.& Carlton!
treasurer of Swift & Co.; Arthur F..
Evans, attorney for Swift & CO.; r.. c.
McManus, attorney for Swift & Co..;
"A. -. SGeuGI, SelleTdl3 COul1SGl lOF oNllLi
& Co.; Edward Cudally, of Cudahy &
Co.; D. E. Hartwell, secretary of Swift
& Co.; Edward f.. Swift, vice president
of Swift & Co.; Edward Morris, secre-'
tary of Nelson Morris & Co.; Ira w.
Morris, of Nelson Morris & Co.
h four employees of Schwarzchild
& Sulzberger who We're indicted for,
alleged rebating with the railroads are
all connected with the traffic depart
ment of the corporation. Their names
are Samuel Wiel, B. S. Cussey, c.. E.
Todd, V. D. Skipworth.
h indictments voted for alleged
violation of the antitrust law were
Identical in each instance. The indict-i
ments contained each eight counts,
which We're spread over sixty-three
typewriter pages.
The first and second counts of the
indictments pertain only to beef sold in
domestic trade. The ninth and tenth,
trade.
Conspiracy Is Charge.
The third count charges a conspiracy
in restraint of trade and
among the states and with foreign ma
tons in fresh, dried, smoked, cured,
canned and picked meats, and in Ger
tain by-products of the packing in
dustry, viz: Sausage castings, sausage
containers, oleo stock, steraline and
oils, and also in butter, eggs and poul-
try. This count charges that the trade
which the defendants We're carrying
on in the above named commodities
was to be restrained in several ways.
l. Competition in the buying of cattle
at the stock yards in different cities
was to be prevented and destroyed by
the defendants, who required their pur-
chasing agents to refrain from bidding
against each other.
2. Competition as to the sale of the
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mestic markets was to be prevented
and destroyed by the defendants fixing
noncompetitiVe and unreasonable prices
for such commodities and requiring
their representatives in the different
markets to fix prices by agreement
from day to day, according to what the
market would stand.
3. The supply of the above commodi-
ties was to be curtailed and restricted
whenever necessary to maintain the
prices SO fixed.
4. The United States was divided into
territories between the defendants and
each was to keep it's own territory with
out Interference by the others.
5, There was division as to the VOL
ulne of trad allowed to each defendant
in each section. If one packer sold
more than his percentage during a
given week he was obliged to pay an
ANTE" of so much per hundred weight,
according to the territory in which the
matter occurred, into a pool to cover
the expenses Of sales, and this fund
was divided among the packers who
fell short in their sales.
6. Certain corporations, namely, the
Aetna Trading company and the OPP
penheimer Manufacturing
We're to be exclusive agents Of the
agents to handle the sausage castings
II containers, and these companies
were to mak arrangements with the
several concerns which had been hand
ling such merchandise in the markets
of the world for working in harmony
and controlling the output and price Of
the merchandise. This scheme involved
the destruction of thanking of large
quantities of castings whenever the
supply was too great.
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