The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-24
MEN HIGHER UP ID
 DE PROSECUTED Government Will Attack Those
 Back ot Beef Trust No BATHS OF IMMUNITY Assistant Attorney General Wade Ellis Will Go to Chicago to Begin Ac- tive Work on Case Against
 Meat Packers.
No BATHS OF IMMUNITY

Washington. January 2s-(special.) .)-The department of justice is going after the men higher up in the beef trust. It is learned today that Attorney General Wickersham has instructed Wade Ellis. his assistant, to give his undivided at tention to the case and within a short time Mir. Ellis will go to Chicago to take up the active work Of preparing the case for the grand jury. Later the Attor- ney General himself will get actively into the case. The aim Is to send offending trust magnates to Jail.
 President Taft is in full sympathy with the movement and has been kept fully informed.
 Care has been exercised throughout not to give any immunity baths or offer any loophoies of escape for the trust mag mates under suspicion. It is only a par tial report of the results of the investi- gation of the operators of the National Packing company that is in hand yet, The facts contained therein, however. have been found to be sufficient to war rant the interpretation of the federal grand jury. The full report win be received on Monday and as soon as the Attorney General and MT. Ellis have analysed MT. Ellis will leave for Chicago, Indict- ments may be expected within a few weeks thereafter.
 It is learned that the investigation of the department of agriculture into the increased cost of living IS about to bear fruit in the shape of partial report to be issued next Tuesday. which will deal with the situation with regard to meat production in the United States. Cattle Shortage Claimed. One of the reasons given by the beef packers Is that there is a shortage in the vest While the agricultural department officials declined to anticipate their re- port there are good reasons to believe that the statistics will show the exist ence of ample supplies of cattle to meet all demands.
 One of the most remarkable manifesto tlons of aroused public sentiment over the increased cost of living is the man. ner in which the wives of high officials are cooperating in militant measures of retaliation against the trusts. And the spirit of '76 is to the rore in the angry protests of members of the Daughters of the Revolution, who in emulation of their forebears declined under somewhat simi- lar circumstances to drink tea, and are now determined that they will not eat meat.
 A number of these prominent women from the social and official set Of the national capital and the Daughters Of the Revolution gave interesting inter views today of the national antitrust leagues work. It is subject that is close to the heart of every housewife and the high prices of foodsruffs worry the society leader as well as the working mans wife
 Mrs. oliver's Views.
 Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver, wife of the assistant secretary of war, said
 ..Something has to be done to reduce the priee of food If something is not done to remedy this evil we will have an enor- nous, impoverished and starving popula- ton on our hands. Our poor people will become as miserable as the peasantry of Europe. I am thinking the matter over carefully, and if decide that the idea of the National Antitrust league enters into it fully enough, which believe 1t does, I will throw my whole energy into the work"
 Mrs. Mary s. Lockwood a founder of the ID. A. R. and president of the Wash ington Federation of Women's Clubs. be- lieves thoroughly in the proposed boycott against high prices for foods.
 '.rhe move of the Antitrust league Is a right one" said Mrs. Lockwood, 'and the D. A R. will go without meat or any thing else to support 1t. It is the chance they had been looking for to be patriotic. There is something rotten in Denmark, and we have to find out what it Is. l don't see how the poor people. let along the well-salaried ones. are going to live. I think that the moral example of ab- stinence from meat and other foods through principle would be a good one. It would show the trusts or those respon- sible for it that this kind of thing must stop, and that people are not going to stand for 1t any longer"
 Mrs. Brewer Speaks.
 Mrs. David J. Brewer. wife of the as- sociats justice of the United States supreme court, and a prominent member of the Housekeepers alliance, said:
 .'This good work will be followed all over the country. am in thorough sym pathy with the work of the National Anti Trust league, and will cooperate with it to the full extent of my powers"
 Mrs. Thomas Gore. wife of the blind sentaor from Oklahoma, expressed her self as being in hearty accord with the work of the National Antitrust league.
 q am willing to join any movement sthat will lower the price of foodstuffs." she said. '1Ths lowering of the price of food is our most vital national neces- sity just now"
 Mrs J. F. Deliver, wife of Senator Dol liver of Iowa, said:
 My sympathy and support and best wishes and all my efforts are with the movement to force down the price of food. Like my revolutionary ancestors. who refused to drink tea when the tax on it was oppressive. would be willing to go without meat or other food rather than pay the tax of avarica and trust rapac- ity."
 Boycott Approved.
 Miss Mary Temple, vice regent of the Daughters of the American Revolu- ton in Tennessee. and president of the Tennessee Women's clubs, said:
 'T believe the idea of a boycott pro- posed by the National Antitrust league Is an excellent one. shall be pleased to oo,~,s,1v vuyltf v,v stata 'rba on1.,