Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-18
SUPREME court DEFIED

But It appears that men who have
been accused OF serious oiicnscs by u
Federal grand jury IRE looked upon rs
superior citizens ana competent Cook
County grand Jurors by the jury COM
mission.
The people will wake up to the situa.
ton herenbouts some day and then
there will he something doing.
The following individuals were In.
dictcd by the Federal grand jury IN
1908 for conspiracy In consplring to re-.
strain commerce and trade by mOnOpO.
LIKING the meat product and for vlo-
iatlng the Sherman Antitrust law:
or Armour 4 Col. Ogden Armour.
president. Chicago: Charles W. Ar
mour. Kansas City, president Of the
Armour Packing Company; Thomas
J. Connors. superintendent. Chicago |;
Samuel \. Mclsobcrts. assistant treas.
urcr. Chicago: Arthur Mceker. general
manager. Chicago; Patrick \. Valen.
tine, treasurer. Chicago.
ton. treasurer. Chicago; Arthur i.
Evans. special counsel. Chicago; ID. T..
Hartwcll. secretary, Chicago; b. e..
McAlanus. special counsel, Chicago !;
Louis T.. Edward r.. and Charles II.
Swift. president. vlcc-president, anl
director. respectively, Chicago; 4. IL.
veetler. general counsel, Chicago.
or the Fairbanks Canning Company
Howard Norris. vlcc.prcsi,icnt. chi.
cago; Ira 4. Morris, secretary, Chi.
caao.
or IN" Cudahy Packing Company
Edward \. Cudahy. vice-presldcnt ami
general manager. Omaha.
Corporations indicted Armour 4
Co.. Of Illinois: Armour Packing Com.
pary. organized under the laws ~ New
Jersey: Swift 4 Co.. Fairbanks Can
ming Company, AMI the Cudahy Pack
Ing Company.
Armour. Meeker and Others i.,,ictctl
with them all escaped trial AMI proba-
ble conviction by the ruling OF a judge
that they were entitled to immunity he.
cause they had furnished evidence
against themselves under cOmpulsiOil
sufficient to convict. although he held
that the corporations indicted were not
entitled TO immunity ana must stand
trial.
But the opinion of the people with
regard to these mep has never changed
ANA the Indignation OF the American
public from President Roosevelt down
has been frequently voiced, ana the
feeling II growing stronger and strOn.
err In the matter
And the supreme Court of the United
States decided March II. 1900, that
trusts and officers of trusts could ~
compelled to furnish evidence against
themselves and could be fined and i'm,
prlsOned on such testimony.
Notwithstanding these facts the jury
commission takes some of these
men In order to I'LL up Cook County
grand juries with leading citizens"
Here are some facts to bear this
statement out:
Arthur Meeker. manager for Arm our
& Company, has been drawn as a mem
Der OF the January body.
Every grand jury for months back
has been well filed up with representa-
tives Of the stock yards interests.
James w. Smithson, purchasing
agent for Armour & Company, was on
the venire for the October grand jury
Among the StOckyards people drawn
upon the September Grand Jury were
Wilbur l.. Irwin, superintendent
Union Stock Yards.
j. ]. Carey, manager for Nelson Nor.
ris 4 Company, Union Stock Yards.
Armour & Company had no men
the July Grand Jury 80 far as can be
ascertalned.
Swift & Company, however, were
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