Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-18

But Il appears that men who have
been accused of serious offenses by Il
Federal grand jury are looked upon as
superior citizens and competent Cook
County grand Jurors by the jury com.
mission.
The people will wake up to the sltun.
ton hcrcabouts some day and then
there will he something doing.
The following individuals were in
dlcted by the Federal grand jury In
1905 for conspiracy In conspiring to r..
strain commerce and trade by monopo-
LIKING the meat product and for vio-
latlng the Sherman Antitrust law:
or Armour & Col. Ogden Armour.
president. Chicago; Charles W. Ar.
mour. Kansas City, president of the
Armour Packing Company; Thomas
j. Connors. superintendent. Chicago (:
Samuel \. Mcl,oberts. assistant treas.
urcr. Chicago: Arthur Meekcr. general
manager. Chicago; Patrick A. valen.
tine. treasurer, Chicago.
or Swift 4 Co.--Lnwrcnce 4. Car
ton. treasurer. Chicago; Arthur 4.
Evans. special counsel, Chicago: u. T..
Hartwell, secretary, Chicago: Il. c,
McAianus, special counsel. Chicago
Louis T.. Edward L.. ana Charles II.
Swift. president. vIcc.president. and
director, respectively. Chicago; \. II.
Nccder, general counsel. Chicago.
or the Fairbanks Canning Company
Edward Morris. ylrc.prcsident. Chi.
cago: Ira 4. Morris, secretary, Chi.
caso.
OF tn" Cudahy Packing Company
Edward a. Cudahy. vlce.presidcnt and
general manager, Omaha.
Corporations indicted Armour &
Co.. Of Illinois: Armour Packing Com
pany. organized under the laws Of New
Jersey: Swift Il Co.. Fairbanks Can
ming Company, and the Cudahy Pack
Ing Company.
Armour. Mecker and others iIdictcd
with them all escaped trial and proba-
BILE conviction by the ruling of II 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 to immunity ana must stand
trial.
But the opinion of the people with
regard to these men has never changed,
and the Indignation OF the American
public from President Roosevelt down
has been frequently voiced, ana the
feeling Is growing stronger and strong,
or in the matter,
And the Supreme Court of the United
States decided March IL, 1909, thar
trusts and officers of trusts could no
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 Older TO I'LL mp Cook County
grand juries with Heading citizens"
Here ole some facts to bear this
statement out:
Arthur Meeker, manager for Armour
& Company, has been drawn as Il men,
Der of the January body.
Every grand jury for months back
has been well filed mp with representa-
tives of the stock yards interests.
James w. Smthson, purchasing
agent for Armour 4 Company, waS on
the venlre for the October grand jiry.
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
rls & Company, Union Stock Yards.
Armour 4 Company had no men
the July Grand Jury 80 far as can be
ascertained.
Swift & Company, however, were
well represented. y