Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-08
SUPREME COURT DEF|ED

But It appears that men who have
been accused Of serious oircnses by u
Federal grand jury are looked upon rs
superior citizens ana competent Cook
County grand Jurors by the Jury com.
mission.
The people will wake M to the sItua.
ton hercabOuts some day and then
there will be something doing.
The following individuals were In.
dicted by the Federal grand jury IN
1905 for conspiracy In copspiring to re-.
strain commerce and trade by monopo.
LIKING the meat product and for vlo.
lating the Sherman Antitrust law:
or Armour 4 Col. Ogden Armour.
president. Chicago: Charles W. Ar
mOur. Kansas City. president Of tho
Armour Packing Company; Thomas
J. COnnOrs. superintendent. Chicago;
Samuel A. McltObcrts. assistant treas
urcr. Chicago: Arthur Mceker. general
manager. Chicago: Patrick 4. Valen.
tine. treasurer. Chicago.
or Swift 4 Co.-Lnwrcncc 4. Car.
ton. treasurer. Chicago: Arthur T..
Evans, special counsel. Chicago; u. T..
iIartwcll. secretary, Chicago: H. e.
McAlanus, special counsel. Chicago;
Louis T.. Edward T.. and Charles II.
Swift. president. vice-presidcnt. AMI
director. respectively, Chicago; 4. u.
Veetler. general counsel, Chicago.
or the Fairbanks Canning Company
-Elwarl Norris. virc.prrsident. Chi.
cago; Ira A. Morris. secretary. Chi.
cagO.
or III" cudahy Packing Company
Edward \. Cu,lnhy. vlcc-prcsllcnt AM.
general manager. Omaha.
Corporations indicted Armour 4
CO., Of Illinois; Armour Packing Com
pany, organized under the laws Of New
Jersey Swift 4 Co.. Fairbanks Can.
ming Company. and the Cudahy Pack.
Ing Company.
Armour, Alecker and others iadIctc,l
with them all escaped trial ana proba.
BILE conviction by the ruling Of u judge
that they were entitled to immunity be.
cause they had furnished evidence
against themselves under cOmpulsion
sufficient to convict although he held
that the corporations indicted were not
entitled 10 immunity and must stand
trial.
hut the opinion of the people with
r.u,rl o., thn,. man has navar .hn n,nI
and the Indignation of the American
public from President Roosevelt down
has been frequently voiced. and the
feeling IL growing stronger ana strong
er In the matter.
And the supreme Court of the United
States decided March IL, 1905. that
trusts and officers Of trusts could no
compelled To furnish evidence against
themselves ami could he fined and I'M
prlsOned ON such testimony.
Notwithstanding these facts the Jury
commission takes some of these
men In order To ill M Cook County
grand jurics with "lcading citizens"
Here are some facts to bear this
statement out:
Arthur Meeker. manager for Armour
4 Company. has been drawn ms mem
Der of the January body.
Every grand Jury for months back
has been well filed M with representa-
tiyes of the stock yards interests.
James W. Smlthson, purchasing
agent for Armour 4 Company, was on
the venlre for the October grand jury
Among the Stockyards people drawn
upon the September Grand Jury were
Wilbur l.. Irwin, superintendent
Union Stock Yards.
J. J. Carey, manager for Nelson Nor.
ris & Company, Union Stock Yards.
Armour & Company had no men
the July Grand Jury 30 far as can bt
ascertained.
Swift & Company, however. were
well represented.