Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-22

But It appears that men who have
been accused Of serious offenses by n
Federal grand jury are looked upon as
superior citizens and competent Cook
County grand jurors by the jury com.
mission.
The people will wake mp to the situa.
ton hcrcabOuts some day and then
there will he something doing.
The following individuals were In.
dicted by the Federal grand Jury In
1905 for conspiracy In cOnsplring to re.
strain commerce ana trade by mOnOpO.
LIKING the meat product AMI FOR VIC.
latinv 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 4. AIcIsOberts. assistant treas.
urer. Chicago; Arthur Meeker, general
manager. Chicago: Patrick A. valen.
tine. treasurer. Chicago.
or Swift 4 CO.-Lawrence 4. Car
ton. treasurer. Chicago; Arthur +.
Evans. special counsel. Chicago; d. Il.
Hartwell. secretary, Chicago; II. c.
McAianus, special counsel. Chicago
Louis F.. Edward f.. and Charles II.
Swift. president. vlce-presIdent. ana
director, respectively, Chicago; A. II.
veetier, general counsel, Chicago.
or the Fairbanks Canning Company
-Edward Morris. vicc.prcsitlent. Chi.
caso; Ira A. Norris, secretary, Chi.
cagO.
or tho Cuduhy Packing Company
Edward A. Cutlahy, vlce-presldcnt and
general manager. Omaha.
Corporations indicted Armour &
Co.. Of Illinois: Armour Packing Com.
pany. organized under the laws Of New
Jersey; Swift 4 Co., Fairbanks Can.
ming Company, aud the Cudahy Pack.
Ing Company.
Armour. Meeker and others Indicted
with them all escaped trial and prOba.
BILE conviction by the ruling Sf a 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 and 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 II, 1906. that
trusts and officers of trusts could he
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 ill up Cook County
grand juries with 'leading citizens"
Here are some facts to bear this
statement ont:
Arthur Meeker, manager TOT armour
4 Company, has been drawn as a men,
Der Of the January body.
Every grand jury for months back
has been well filled up with representa-
tlyes of the stock yards interests.
James W. Smithson, purchasing
agent for Armour 4 Company, was on
the venire for the October grand Jury,
Among the StOckyards people drawn
upon the September Grand Jury We're
Wilbur l.. Irwin, superintendent,
Union Stock Yards.
j. j. Carey, manager for Nelson Nor
ris & Company, Union Stock Yards.
Armour 4 Company had no men
the July Grand Jury SO far as can be
ascertained.
Swift 4 Company, however, were
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