Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-26
BEEF TRUST IN Peril
Motion to NulIify Charter Next
Move in Crusade.
PACKERS TO STAND TRIAL
Defendants Promise to Appear to
Answer Conspiracy Charge.
PROSECUTOR MEANS BUSINESS
Says Indicted Men Will Find Pro-
ceedings No Joke-Ready to
Order Arrest.
PACKERS TO STAND TRIAL
MEANS BUSINESS

| NEW YORK. February ga motion
| to nullify the charter OF the National
Packing Company, one Of the corpora
tons indicted yesterday for conspiracy
to raise the price of meat by the Hudson
county, N. ]. grand jury. will be made
! next week by Prosecutor Garven Of Jer-
sey City.
Prosecutor Garven will appear before
Supreme Court Justice Swayze in Tren-
ton, N. j.. during next week and ask that
the National Packing Company's charter
be nullified on the ground that it has vio-
| lated the states law.
officials of Prosecutor Garven's Office
said later In the day that they had re-
| ceived assurances from counsel Of the in
dicted corporations and individuals that
the defendants would appear when
wanted for trial.
Packers Ready to Face Music.
The first Of the indicted meat packers to
be heard from directly was James f..
Bathgate. jr.. who. through his counsel.
Judge Robert E Hudspeth Of Jersey City.
notified the prosecutors office this after
noon that he was ready to appear when
ever Prosecutor Garven wanted him.
1t Is probably that Mr.. Bathgate, who
lives in Orange, n. J.. will be notified to
appear before Justice Blair Monday to
plead to the Indictment and give bail Tor
his appearance at trial.
Dot 10 a nhor NJ a nf
Bimbler, Van Wagenen & Co. Of Newark
Of the subsidiary companies Of the Ma
tional Packing Company.
The curious fact developed today that
the meat investigation and the indict-
ment which followed yesterday had SO
far cost the New Jersey county Of Hud-
son, where the proceedings have been
conducted. the net sum Of only 40 cents.
This is approximately the value Of the
stationery used by the district attor-
ney's Office and the grand jury.
Garven Means Business.
Prosecutor Garyen said: IT will wait a
week or ten days before issuing any ca
phases. and give the men under in
dictment q chance to put in a voluntary
appearance. II they fail to come into
the state and answer the charges within
than time I will have capiases issued
and give them into the hands Of sher-
IFS. who will hunt up the indicted indi-
viduals in Chicago or wherever they
will likely be found.
'The laws machinery will be put in
motion to bring them to New Jersey"
Il see that according to dispatches from
Chicago. the packers there regard this
prosecution as joke" said Prosecutor
Garven. abiding to the indictments Of
the companies and individuals in the al
legged beef trust. found by the grand jury
in Jersey City yesterday.
WELL they will find out before we get
through that this is a pretty serious mat
ter The laugh will be on the beef barons
and not on me-" continued the prosecutor.
Mr.. Garven declared there would be
further evidence ready for submission to
the grand jury when 1t meets Wednesday
next.
Beef Trust Indictment.
The beef trust Of the United States.
embracing six great packing companies
and twenty-one packers. several Of them
multi-millionaires, socially and Industrial
ly prominent, as named In the indictment
returned by the grand jury In Hudson
n. d.,
conspiracy in limiting the supply Of meat
and poultry, are:
Corporations.
The National Packing Company.
Hammond Packing Company.
Armour & Co.
Morris & Co.
Swift e. Co.
G. H. Hammond & Co.
individuals.
]. Ogden Armour Thomas f. Wilson
A. Watson Armour. Thomas j. Connors
Louis r. Swift r. A. Fowler
Edward +. Swift L. III. Heyman
Charles II. Swift j. f. Bathgate, jr.
Edward Morris George j. Edwards
Ira N. Morris Frederick b, Cooper
Arthur Meeker u. r. HartWell
Edward Tilden II. b. Darlington
L. A. Carton A. A. Fuller
Lemuel C. Patterson.
This list of names, 1t will be seen, rep
resents the very backbone of the great
hacking industry of this country, con-
tanning as 1t does two Armours. three
Swifts and two Morrises, all for the most
part residents of Chicago. together with
less important figures in the packing
world
Their Indictment brings to a climax the
! first concerted effort In the east to fix re-
sponsfbility for the prevailing abnormal
| high price OF commodities.
The Indictment Is drawn under the law
| of New Jersey. which provides upon con-
vietion a maximum penalty of three years
in the penitentiary or one-thouSand-
dollar fine, or both. The OffenSe Is extra
ditable which means that practically all
the meat barons Of this country must
either successfully resist exuadition or
come to Jersey City for trial.
The Grill Of the Law.
| The indictment places the culprits on
| the grill Of the law, turns them over and
| lambastes them for the sins of two years
back in a way that leaves no kind Of de-
| nunciation untried.
| That Pierre p. Garven, the county