The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-20
COIL
 ABOUT TRUST
GOV EMINENT NIT UENETS PRO- pUcE SEVERAL THOUSAND
 TEST COST SHEETS
Witness Testifies That Companies Ex- changed Memoranda of Daily susi. ness to Keep Other Packers
 Posted on Cost.

Chicago. Jan l9.-segera! thousand original memorandum cost sheets for beef used by Armnnr ana Company at ts south Omaha plant, between Ma4e4 and September 1910. were introduced in evidence by thc government ia the packers trial today They are the first original datH uuEarrugd in the trial dealing w!th the actual figuring of the beef cost within ihe period GOV cred by the indictment and show the allowances made for by-nrodnets ny the test cost system This system. the government declares. was used by the packers as the basis Of fixing prices.
 The sheets were produced by Ed. ward w MeAdams, office manager al he South Omaha plant of Armour and Company
 Earlier in the day, Everett B Dn and Perry \. waterhouse. formerly managers for the National Packing l Company at Boston, from 1908 to 1906. testified that it was the practice for the representatives. of Armour and Company, Swift and Company. and Morris and compaly to exchange memoranda of the daily shipments. margins and selling prices
 They said that in this way the rep resentative of each company Knew what the other was dons Sometimes this information was obtained by tel epbone and at other times, the branch maaagers made the rounds Of the oth- CT offices to get the figures
 Waterhodse testified that when he was in charge of the National Pack
 ing company's business in Boston. 1 the managers met every Saturday to exchange this information He said they made daily and weekly reports to the main offices in Chicago regard ,lg the price obtained on sales.
 Mr> Dill said there were ten inde, pendent packers selling meat in Bos. ton in 1905 and 1906 He described the AA AttteAeI4ia++44 44ff cattle fer the Jew ish trade and said Swift and Company and the National Packing Company had special departments to supply this trade, receiving ? cents pound more for the meat than for that from beeves slaughtered in the regular way
 Dill said that in 1908 the four big Chicago hackers sold five million pounds of beef week in New Yors City, divided as follows
 Armour and company 1,2oo,0o0 pounds
 Swift and Company. l.ooa-aao pounds
 rounds
 National Packing Company. g.O0o.- GOO pounds.
 Dill estimated that so per cent of the fresh meat aa4lff.4ii-llaA4.# aa4lff.4ii-laA4.# Il New York City was shipped by Armour anu Com ptny, Swift and Company, Morris and Company. the National Packing Com pany. Cudahy and Company and scswarschild and sulzberger Counsel for the defense attempted to < w that schwarzschlId aud suIz- berger sold three times as much beet in New York in 1905 and 1906 as Ar. mour, Swift, Morris or the National i Packing Company a.ld that the ship. ments of Cudahy and Company exceed. ed those of Morris and Company
 The witness doubted the accuracy of these comparisons
 l Edward | MeAdam. office manager for Armour and Company at South { Omaha since 1905. Identified letter from the Chicago offices Of Armour and Company, dated July II. 1910. giv- ing list of allowances to be made for by-prodnets in figuring the memo. randum test cost Of beet. It allowed i g -ss99.75 75 8 head for Killing. g cents q head for the offal cents pound for fat and cents a pound Tor hides.
 The witness produced several spec imen beef test coat sheets for lsia which were offered In evidence. Me Adam was on the stand when tts court adjourned
 United States Senator N E. he's 1 yon. one of the spsciai counsei tof tsle government. departed in the alIsf l noon for Washington.