Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-20
PACKERS F|I[DD[[F
PR|;[SBY TELEGRAPH
GOVERNMENT WITNESS aNNGARs
ARMOUR coMPANvzp,cTArEp
QUOTATIONS ~ CODE.
WESTERN MANAGER PRopucEs
TEST sALEs MEMoRAnoA

Data considsrsd Valuable by Gov
srnm.nt Preseeutors-clsr,< From
Kansas City Has Poer IN emory.
Chicago, Jan. 20.-Whensthe packers
trial was resumed today Edward J..
McAdam, office manager for Armour q:
Co at South Omaha. continued his tes-
timony regarding the business methods
used at that plant. j
Assistant District Attorney Elwood
Goldman read number OF specimen
memorandum beef cost sheets" show
Ing tho credits allowed the defendants
for by-products in making the COM
pilations.
The sheets were for cattle killed at
the South Omaha plant in March.
April. May, june July and August.
1910. They showed the killing charge
to be $40 a head, the esallowance for
offal 35 cents q head. and the credit
for hides varied from 4, 60 cents a
pound.
The government contends that these
allowances given for bysproducts were
below the actual market value. and
that they played an important part in
fixing the selling price Of meats by the
alleged packers combins.tA
James McLeese, clerk,sin charge of
figuring the test cost Of beef at the
kansas City plant of Armour s. Co. for
seven years, was the next government
witness called. no
Have you any Of the memorandum
beef cost sheets which you used be-
tween March and September. 1907
"No."
where are they g.
Destroyed. We never keep them
over thirty days" aa
Can you give me the names Of any
of the men under you who helped hg-
ure those test costsT
mo. / can not
.tknys Of those i1isn sttA in the COM
pany.s employ i'sss y.
"No. they are all gone. and can not
remember their names. ~. .ss IS 81 .4 z
Are changes In your clerical force
frequently nader
| Yes, quite frequently
Government Presently Documents.
Several hundred "memorandum cost
sheets complied at Armour & Co.'s
South Omaha plant between March l
and Aug. -, 1910. were uncovered by
the government yesterday and entered
as evidence in the prosecution Of the
ten packers. These are the first im-
portant dated documents to be adj
mitted. -
40 snNV
at South Omaha, subpoenaed recently,
uments. He was forced to produce
them when called to the stand yester-
day afternoon. The packers protested
they should not be read, and the gov
ernment promptly introduced the whole
series as exhibits.
McAdam testified to- the regular re-
ceipts Of instructions from the Chicaxo
office of Armour & CO., containing fis-
ures used In making out the memoir
anduna, cost Of beef at the South O,na-
ha yards. He said these Instructions
came from H. F. Meyer. head of the
Chicago test cost department. an im-
portant witness for the government
last week.
Two Eastern Manassrs Testify.
Other witnesses were Everett b. Dill
and Perry NJ. Waterhouse Of Boston,
both former office managers IN the
east for the National Packing Com
pany. which. the government charges,
IL the central pillar Of the "beef trust"
They admitted frequent meetings With
representatives Of the. Armour, Swift
and Norris interests. the other three OF
the pool: the comparison Of figures
regarding all local business for each
day and each week. andsthe forwarding
Of information 50 acquired to the Chi
cago offices.
This information was ltelegraphed on
Saturday. sometimes in the code names
of the several concerns. but always In
certain order-hrst. Armour; second,
National; third. Morris: fourth. Swift
so there could be no mistake. 81
The government declares these tele-
graphed communicative were used at
the Tuesday meetings of the following
week. l. B. Pattersons general man
ager of the National Packing Company,
is said to have received the informa-
tioE. 500. (,
Will Expose Chicago Agreement. 4
The evidence given by the Boston
men indicates the cfose relationship
between the selling Representatives %
the four companies. in the big csnters
to the east. Pending evidence 10 sx-
pected to show the agreSments existing
in Chicago. Dill testified regarding tho
comparison Of prices and margins cf
profit among the eastern managers. Il /.
After we got the rnSrsin.' he said;
ut was wired At neon every day to
Chicago-to. Mr.. Pattsfsonl-and every
Saturday the total for the week was
Wired" ~ SsS y .a.S i
did you send any other information
except this margin = = asked senator
Kenyon. who conducted the examine
tion. a /.
1--WE used to send ~ sales ana the
margins Of the other Apuses. swift, Ar.
mour. and Morris. Tlet covered the
entire period Of my Ssnnectios. sa;..ssh ssh
Armour. We rot theae mAttins and
the selling prices of TT othsfs tk6slsSe
by telephone = 81 .:ss -. I.
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