Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-01-27

of congressman on the Borland resolu-
ton by agents Of the packers in Wash
ington, their reports usually being cac-
tiously devised so that identities were
indicated only by initial or state. Es
pecial attention was given to Represel
tative Gard of Ohio. and Representa-
tive Morgan of Oklahoma from whor,
opposition was feared. Opposition -
the Borland resolution, including e
food of kilograms inspired by thu
packers. was financed, according To
the evidence, by a fund of S15.0G)
raised on q percentage basis anon
the Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy an
SulZberger. or Wilson firms.
This percentage received the clos
attention of the commissioners, who
were told by Mr. Heney that il was .
continuation and extension OF the pos
known as the National Packing CON
peny, ordered dissolved by the federal
courts in 1912.
Heney Charges Trust
I'VE viii show that this understand
ing between the packers has continued
and is now in effect" he said. ~and
that they appOrtion the livestock pur-
chases throughout the United States
on the basis of their property held
ings."
Buying agreements. tending TO elm
mate competition and TO permit the
packers TO control the nations food
supply long have been charged by the
livestock growers in their demands
for governmental inquiry into the bus
mess. z. c. Lasater. of Falfurrias.
Tex, leading figure in the American
National Livestock association, tool.
the stand to tell of conferences request
ed by the packers to promote better
feeling between the producing and pu-
chasing ends Of the business. He said
little was accomplished. as the pack
ers were insistent first of all that the
proposed inquiry should be sidetrack
ed entirely. or confined only to econ
Omic questions with all criminal as
poets eliminated.
I told them that if conditions con
tinued unchanged, my holdings coulU
go 10 any man who would pay the re
naming Indebtedness" he asserted
for I did not want 10 leave my chill
dren heritage from which they cOUlo
obtain only what they were allowed
by FIVE outsiders controlling the mar
ket"
Missing Letter Sought
Colin H Livingstone. representative
at Washington for Armour & Co, IL
handling questions affecting their for
eign trade. and a business associate OF
the late Senator Elkins of West Nir-
ginia. Charles w. Morse. and the Gug-
genheims. was the only other witness
during the day His testimony ended
abruptly when Mr.. Heney produced
evidence of a letter he had written Ar
mOur & Co. and which was not in
cluded in the correspondence Living
stone furnished the commission One
OF the commissions agents accompan-
led by Mr.. Livingstone went to his Of
fee to search for the missing letter.
While on the stand, Livingstone said
he had not been active against the
BOrland resolution. A letter from A
R UriOn. of Armour & Co. TO J. Og
den Armour. said a request for addi-
tiOnal compensation by Livingstone
for work in obtaining settlement for
meat cargoes detained by the British
blockade. surely must refer 10 his ef-
forts on the BOrland resolution. Mr.
UriOn asserted that he knew nothing
VI AAAA-ANiAtCo winch A--fAAe-oNpl-H 0e-A--
he had with Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
and other Canadian ~dignitaTies."
The name of Dana Durand of the
University of Minnesota a former gov
eminent official. appeared in the doc
umentary evidence again in cOnnec-
ton with the preparation of an econO-
mic justification of Swift & Co. Mr.
Durand was asked to undertake the
work Of editing the information com
piled by the Swift firm. He replied he
sympathized with their object but
could not do so until he saw the infOT
nation and was certain il was to be