Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-02-01
SUPREME court DEFIED

nut II appears that men who have
been accused OF serious ofrenses by a
Federal grand jury are looked upon rs
superior citizens ana competent Cook
County grand jurors by the jury COM
mission.
The people will wake up to the sltua.
ton hereabouts some dny and then
there will Ike something doing.
The following individuals were In.
dlcted BY the Federal grand jury In
1905 for conspiracy In conspirIng to re-.
strain commerce and trade by monopo.
liking the meat product and for vio.
latlng the Sherman Antitrust law:
OF 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. McltOberts. assistant treas
urer. Chicago; Arthur Meeker, general
manager. Chicago: Patrick A. valen.
tine, treasurer. Chicago.
or Swift 4 CO.-Lawrence A. Car
ton, treasurer. Chicago; Arthur +.
Evans. special counsel. Chicago: ID. l..
Iiartwell. secretary, Chicago; Il. &.
McAlanus, special counsel, Chicago ;
Louis f.. Edward T.. and Charles II.
Swift. president. vicc-presldent. and
director, respectively. Chicago: 4. II.
Veetler. general counsel, Chicago.
or the Fairbanks Canning Company
-l.dwnrl Norris. vlre.presltlent. Chi
cage; Ira a. Morris, secretary, Chi
cagO.
or tn" cudahy Packing Company
Edward \. Cudahy. vlce-presldcnt and
general manager. Omaha.
Corporations indicted Armour 4
Co., Of Illinois: Armour Packing Com
piny. organized under the laws Of New
Jersey; Swift Il Co., Fairbanks Can
ming Company, aud the Cudahy Pack
Ing Company.
Armour. Meeker and others indlctcd
with them all escaped trial ana prOb,,-
ble conviction by the ruling OF Il 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. 1905. that
trusts ana officers of trusts could ne
compelled to furnish evidence against
themselves and could he fined and I'M
prlsOned on such testimony.
Notwithstanding these facts the jury
commission takes some of these
men In order to fill up Cook County
grand juries with "leading citizens"
Here are some facts to bear this
StNsSH'Nut wv
Arthur Mceker, manager for Armour
& Company, has been drawn as men,
her of the January body.
Every grand jury for months bach;
has been well filed up with representa-
tlVes Of the stock yards interests.
James w. SmlthsOn, 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 & Company, Union Stock Yards.
Armour & Company had no men
the July Grand Jury 20 far as can be
ascertained.
Swift 4 Company, however, were
well represented.