The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-14
MASS Of FIGURES
READ INTO RECORD
Prosecution Endeavoring to
Prove Packers By-Product
Allowance Inadequate.
ACCOUNTANT ON STAND
H. A. Timmins Questioned at
Length in Effort to
Trace Items.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Surrounded by
piles of books and records, II. A. Tim.
Minis. chief accountant for Morris 6;
Co.. resumed the witness stand at the
opening OF court today in the trial of
the packers charged with maintaining
= combination in restraint Of trade.
Timmins continued his testimony re-
garding tho details Of the accounting
system used. The witness described
each book and enumerated the accounts
kept In It.
Special Counsel James II. Sheean
questioned Timmins at length in an ef-
fort TO trace the items covering the
sale OF byproducts through the different
books.
An expert accountant worked until
nearly midnight last night gong
through the books Of Morris e. Co. and
Timmins was asked to explain many Of
the items selected by the prosecution.
Many Vouchers Read.
Volnminous vouchers were read show
ing the transfer of byproduct credits
iron, one department to another: One
& Co. for September. 1907. shovel
that 81. .037 cattle had been purchased
Mt cost of S1,o99. 1868. The princi"
pal credits wcro S67.7s7.35 for hides
and 81 .5s624 for fertilizer.
"Where are the memoranda from
which these journal and ledger entries
are mndef" asked Attorney Shcean.
"Thev are destroyed as soon as
these final entries are made, because
we have no further use for them after
that. replied the witness.
1'Were there any department reports
made for regular pcriods7'
'Yes. We made monthly reports Tor
the different departments.
The monthly reports were also lie.
rtroyed after few months and no sum.
mary Of them was kept, Timmins testi'
6ed
In an effort to show that the allow
snces made BY the packers for byprod.
ucts was inadequate. the government
counsel read into the record a mass of
figures selected from the monthly
vouchers Of Morris & Co. for the period
between 1905 and 1910.
Objections Overruled.
District Attorney wilkcrson er,
pressed tho opinion that probably it
would take three weeks to complete
this line Of statistical evidence De
spite the objections of the defense,
Judge Carpenter has ruled that the gov"
crnmcnt is entitled to this information
and tho present plan is to read INTO
the record a large part OF the books Of
the packing companies.
Attorney Sheean, reading from the
books Of Morris & Co. for October,
1907. showed that 40,919 cattle were
purchased at cost of 81, ,743, ,1SI 02, and
that the allowance made for the sale
Of hides was s99,7l03o. In November
OF the same year 23,173 cattle were
purchased for $l,0il,726.17 AMI $29,-
s05.25 was allowed for hides.
The government contends the allow
ance for hides was discontinued about
the middle of the month. In Decem-
Der. 1907. an even greater slump in al
lowances for hides was shown. In that
month 1882 cattle We're bought at 4
cost of 81 $50, ,754,O6, and the hide al
lowance was Sl029-33.
In January, 1908, 26.339 cattle were
purchased for $1.ls2. .050.l0. AMI tho al
lowanee for hides WAS only sl29.50.
Timmins was unable TO explain the
practical discontinuance of making an
allowance for hides during this period.