Arizona republican., 1905-07-02
Wholesale indictment of
 Chicago Beef Packers
A VARIETY OF CHARGES
Restraint Of Trade, Monopoly of Bus mess, Enforcing Railroad Rebates. Result of Three Months InVestiga- tiOn by the Federal Grand Jary.

ing seventeen men prominent n the packing industries of the country for a violation of the Sherman trust law and four officials of the Schwarzchild
 and Sulzberger company for alleged
 relating to railroads. Beside these in 1 dividual indictments bills were voted
 against five corporations, Armour and company, Swift and company, Nelson
 Morris and company, the Cudahy Packing company and the Fairbanks | Canning company.
 i The men indicted for alleged con- 1 spiracy in restraint of trade which
 constitutes a violation of the Sherman
 act are:
 J. Ogden Armour, president of Ar
 mour and company
 1 Charles Armour Of Armour and company.
 l Arthur MeelSer, general manager for
 Armour and company i T. J. COnnors, director of Armour l and company.
 P A Valentine, treasurer of Armour
 and company.
 i Samuel McRoberts, assistant treas
 urer of Armour and company. Louis F. Swift, president of Swift and company.
 Chas. Swift, of Swift and company. Lawrence A. Carton, treasurer of Swift and company
 Arthur r. Evans, attorney for Swift and company.
 R. c. McManus. attorney for Swift
 and company
 A H. Veeder, general counsel for
 Swift and company.
 Edward Cudahy, of Cudahy Packing company.
 D. E. HatweH, secretary of Swift and company.
 Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift and company
 Edward Morris. secretary Nelson. Morris and Company
 The four employees of Schwarzchild and Sulzberger who were indicted for alleged relating with the railroads. are all connected with the traffic de- partment of the corporation. Their names are Samuel Well. B. s. Cusey. (. k. Todd, V. D. Skipworth.
 The indictments for the alleged vfo- latIon of the antitrust law were iden- ical in each instance The fndict- ments contained each ten counts.
 The first and second counts of the indictments pertained only to beef sold in domestic trade. The third count charges conspiracy in restraint Of | trade and commerce among the states i and with foreign nations in fresh. :. dried, smoked, cured, canned and pick ! led meats, and in certain by-products 1 of the packing industry, viz: Sausage ! casing, sausage containers. stearine ! and oils, and also in butter. eggs and 1 poultry. This count charges that the | trade which the defendants were car rylng on in the above named condi- | tions was to be restrained in several 1 ways.
 First, competition in the buying of | cattle at the stock yards in different cities was to be prevented and de- stroyed by the defendants who reuuir- ed their purchasing agents to refrain rom bidding against each other Sec ond, competition as to the sale of the above commodities in foreign and do- mestic markets was to be prevented ! and destroyed by the defendants fixing non-competftive and unreasonable prices for such commodities and re- quiring their representative in differ ent markets to fix prices by agreement from day to day according to what the market would stand.
 Third, the supply Of the above com modities was to be curtaiIed and re stricted whenever uecessary to main tam the prices so fixed. Fourth. the United States was divided up into ter rItories between he defendants. and each was to keep it's own territory without interference by the others.
 Fifth, there was a division as to the volume of trade allowed to each de- fendant in a given market; if one packer sold more than his percentage during 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 -o cover the excess of sales. and tbis sund was divided among the packers who fell short in their sales |
 Sixth, certain corporations. namely i he Aetna Trading company and the ( Oppenhefmer Manufacturing company were to be appointed exclusive agents 'f the defendants to handle sausage ,asing and containers and these com 'ahles were to make arran gemen1s with the several concerns which had { ,een handling such merchandise 1T { he markets of the world for Zyor.Iz:ns S harmony and controlling the output 2 nd price of the merchandise This ' involved the destruction or "tankirt.'' f f large quantities of castings whenav- r the supply was loo great.
 The Kenwood company, another cor 'oration, was to handle oIeo. oils and roducts on substantially the same F mes, excepting that there was no de- a truction of these commodities These gents of the packers were also to lake contracts with small packing oncerns throughout the country for T aking their output of castings and 1ese castings were either to be de- troyed or handled in connection with ne goods of the packers. or The fourth count charges that the m anne matters mentioned in the third q, punt as being in restraint of trade st nd commerce constituted an offense " n the part of the packers to monopo- m ze such trade and commerce. The il