Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-18
wORRALL WILL PUBLISH BOOK
After Suing Grain Dealers He VIII
Publish His Grievances.

After Suing Grain Dealers He VIII
Publish His Grievances.
A book dealing in the workings Of the
Nebraska Grain Dealers association is
to be written by Thomas D. worrall of
Lincoln. He made the announcement after
he closed his deposition yesterday after
noon. Conviction of the members for
violation of the antitrust laws and Sl2s0OO
damages is not all the vengeance that Mr..
Worrall desires. He says his lawyers would
not permit him to tell, on the stand, the
worst practices Of the so-called grain trust
and to reveal these to the public he in
tends to write his book
Mr. WorralI showed a new and ex-
pressive term over the typewriter and
into common usage Monday morning, when
he resumed his deposition in his suit to re-
cover damages from and break up the Ne
braska Grain trust. The word is tat
tooed" and in the vocabulary of the grain
dealer it means "boycotted by the organi-
Eations"
Mr.. Worrall cheerfully admitted he had
been so styled and 1t is one OF the reasons
why he is trying to get his hands on $12S,-
900 he didn't make because he was tat
tooed. He told more about how the lines
closed in him and how they reached
wv bSyplu the OIldnd TO OIneT
cities and tripped him up there; how the
markets were practically closed against
him and his Arm forced into dealing in
futures" and detailed the refusal OF a
st. Louis commission firm to do business
with him, preferring TO take this course
rather than 'jeopardize all the other bust
ness they got out of Nebraska" Part of
the morning was taken up showing the ex-
pense and trouble he had been put to COM
batting the so-called trust.
In the afternoon Mr.. worralI remarked
that the members of the association op-
posed grain market in Omaha and
openly preferred no cash market nearer
than New York City, as a matter Of profts
was involved He also gave a great deal
Of other testimony and finished his deposit
ton after taking several days to do it, His
partner, Charles T. Peavey, will start on
his deposition this morning.
Barred from Larger Business.
Had there been no bars against you in
the purchasing OF grain from dealers In
Nebraska and from the selling of grain to
the receivers In the market of the United
States. what is the fact as to whether or
not you could have purchased. paid for and
disposed of more grain than you did7"
asked Attorney F. s. Howell
I'VE would have purchased and disposed
Of great deal more than we did," was
the reply.
why didn't you purchase more grain
than you did?'
LAS stated before, we couldn't sell it for
as good price as others, therefore We
didn't want to take the chances on loss"
DO you know why you couldn't get as
good prices as others for grain that you
were deprived from buying?"
that was set against u.s. Secretary Miller
Of the Nebraska Grain Dealers assocla-
ton told some members of the association
that Tom (meaning Worral) had been tat
tooed a long time ago. Mr.. Ewert told me
in his own office at Lincoln that this was
the language that Mr. Miller used in talk
Ing TO him about the matter and further
made the statement that the word had
been passed along the line not to do busl-
ness with us. We wanted to. sell to ex-
porters on Omaha inspection, but they did
not bid us. All these receiving dealers were
regulars"
what other overtures did you have in
Omaha and on the Omaha market to dis
pose Of your grain, so far these individ-
ual parties were concerned?'
None whatever"
III during that time you had grain on
hand to dispose OF. what method did you
resort to and were you compelled 10 resort
to to dispose OF it?"
Cash Market Closed 20 Him.
I'VE had to sell the future and consign to
some commission firms that didn't bid, but
would handle It as a consignment when It
got there. The cash market was practi-
cally closed to us. This caused us TO lose
money as we could not get as much out OF
our corn by handling it that way as we
would If we had been able 10 have sold il
spot, here"
The witness said T. S. Cowgirl Of the
Transmississippi Grain company, E. s.
WestbroOke of the Westbrooke-G Gibbons
company, n. B. Updike Of the Updike
Grain company, f. P. Peck and Mr.. Hall
hof the Hall-Baker Grain company OF Kan
sas City Joined 20 plug up" a deal against
the Worrall company with Chicago firms;
that Halls firm is a regular one. but Hall
is not a member OF the Nebraska Grain
Dealers association, according 70 his own
statement. That the Kansas City Grain ex-
change has a rule against any member OF
| II belonging to any grain dealers associa-
ton, yet they always affiliated and worked
with" the association, though they could
not be members OF any grain organization.
Letters from Association.
Regarding the Brinson-Wagner company
| OF St. Louis. who solicited shipments in
Nebraska through p. A. Bryant witness
said:
Il received complaint from them con-
/ corning our business and in September.
] 1904. went down 70 see them. l was told
the Arm had received letters from some
one In connection with the Nebraska asso-