Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-01-26
TRUSTS MAKE
LAST STAND
Lumber, Beef Money, Steel
and Other Combines on
the Griddie
MAKE PLAUSIBLE DEFENSE
Other Commodities Than Mono.
poly Products Have Gone
Up in Price.
NBy Special Leased Wire to Now MexIcanl

Il CAlcaGO, Ill, Jan. ga ruling in
laV0r OF the government in the prose
cutiOn of the packers was made to-
jGay when United States District
Judge Carpenter allowed the intro
/ duction in evidence of 80 original mar
gin sheets of the National Packing
Company for the first eight months
OF 1910.
| The defense had denied all knowl-
edge Of these original margin sheet,
until they were suddenly produced in
court by District Attorney Wilkerson.
J The government believes the mar
sin sheets to be an important link in
! The chain Of circumstantidl evidence
! by which it expects 10 prove the
packers guilty Of violating the Grim
inal section of the Sherman law.
| When special counsel Pierce But
| Ter, representing the government.
started to read the sheets TO the jury,
the defense made vigorous objection
on the ground tnat the evidence was
inmaterial.
These papers are irrelevant and
should be excluded said Attorney
John S. Miller, representing the Arm
our group of defendants.
If We are not careful We will be
! overwhelmed with immaterial things
III this case
These papers are red-handed things
in the opinion Of the government in
| N+.crp,,y D,Ilo,
Judge Carpenter then overruled the
! objections and Attorney Butler was
permitted to read the disputed docu
ments TO the jury.
People Pay for Breaking Oil Trust.
| IndeDendence, Kans., Jan. 26.-An
advance of cents in the price of mid
continent crude oil to 81 cents a bal
rel was announced today by the
Prairie Oil and Gas Company.
Other Than Trust Articles Cost More.
| Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 26.-Further
Testimony tending to show that the
price Of yellow pine lumber has not
increased more rapidly in the last ten
iyoars than GozeHE OF G4G2r commCdi-
ties was given today by Charles S.
| Keith, at the hearing of the states
custer suit against 26 lumber compa-
Gies charged with violation of the
antitrust law. Mr.. Keith testified
that corn, oats, rye, potatoes. and cat
Tie had increased in price at a far
more rapid rate than lumber.
DO you think that the fact that
jail farm products have shown about
the same fluctuations is a proof that
there is no beef trust?" asked AttOr-
ney Atkinson, in cross examination.
In mentioning farm products, I did
not refer to packing house products
The packers do not sell live hogs or
cattle but finished products concern
ing which | have no special knowl-
edge"
: Then, the evidence you have given
here, about the fuctuation in the
prices OF different products of the
farm does not in fact prove anything?'
only that they, like yellow pine
are governed by the law of supply
land demand
In redirect examination the wit
ness said that of a large number OF
sales Of the same kind of lumber
t on the same day by the defendant
companies, 81 per cent of the sales
showed variation in prices,
Probing Money Trust.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 26,-The
House committee on rules, today re
lsumed it's hearings on the Lindbers
resolution for special inquiry int
The money trust" with Samuel I'm
] termyer of New York as a witness.
Mr.. Untermyer said he did not ap
pear as sponsor or champion Of tia
Lindberg resolution but he was sat
lisfed Congress could not legislate in
telligently with respect to trusts o
to monetary system until the ques
ton of concentration of the none,
r power" was thoroughly understood.
For that reason, he said, he favored
the proposed investigation provide'
it was conducted in a conservative
r systematic, painstaking non-partisa1
spirit with the sole object of expos
ing the weaknesses and abuses Of th'
system and as the basis for construt
tive legislation
e He'll Holes of Steel Trust.
d Washington, D. c., Jan. 26.-Th
s "Hell Holes" of the United State
k Steel Corporation came up for di
S, cussion at hearing today before tn
'e Senate committee on Education an
ID Labor in the House bill which Woul
H. impose an eight hour labor restri
lie ton on all government contract worl
III, Chairman Borah of the committe
said some industries had gone sow
le as to need federal attention.
le From the reports of the Depar
le ment of Commerce and Labor on tt
It. Steel industry" said the Senator, 9
w is shown that the Steel Corporate
is paying millions of dollars in div
We dends and yet has in its Hell Hole
ay men who work twelve hours da
he seven days in the week, and othel
who work Is to "a hours in one shit
ds No man who has taken an oath OF {
on fee can ignore this
as General Counsel James A. Eme
he of the National Association of Man
facturers declared that manufacture
he generally objected to being made Il
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