Arizona republican., 1918-01-31
ATTORNEY OF PACKERS HIT BYPROBINCS
Henry Veeder AS Disclose Contents or His Vault; Investigation
 Is Delayed for a Time
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90.-Reading of letters and documents from the con- fidential files of the Chicago packers into the records of the federal trade commissions meat packing hearing, came to a sudden halt late today to permit Francis J. Hency, special coun- sel, to return to Chicago and direct the search for further material.
 Henry Veeder's vault, containing the correspondence of the lawyer who was characterized by MT. Heney as the clearing house" for the joint opera tions of the packers, has been sealed by Hugh McIsaac, the commissions examiner, who obtained most of the documentary evidence already intro duced. Unless Veeder reconsiders his refusal to permit the examination of 1 his papers to continue, court action will be taken by the commission.
 Before Veeder decided the examiners could not continue their search, they obtained documents which MT. Heney said were so important as to justify termination of the hearings here and his leaving for Chicago tomorrow to di- rect the investigators, who are digging into the files of others of the packers counsel as well.
 Drive Out Small Dealers
 Methods pursued by the big packers in competing with smaller firms, which MT. Heney declared virtually had driv- en many of the latter out Cf business, and the activities of Colin H. Living stone Washington representative of Armour & Co, were described in docu- ments put into the records today.
 Mir. Heney made this statement to the commission:
 Before I left Chicago I left Hugh McIsaac in charge of our investigators there, and I directed them to examine the corresponce files of Henry Veeder who is shown to be the clearing house of the packers of the expenses which they incurred jointly and which they divided, in the purchase of cattle, sheep hogs and calves thro,sghout the coun- | try. l have written evidence on that
 MT. Commissioners, which is already partly in, but we have little more yet 1 directed MT. McIsaac at the same
 time to put another examiner on thu correspondence files of MT. Bordens attorney for both Morris and Wilson : &s Co.,, and also on the files of the at 2 torney for Armour & Co.
 Combination Attorney
 Now, Needer is not only attorne, ' TOT S"ltt x CO, but is, as 1 say clear
 ing house agent for them in man things, particularly cottonseed oi ! mills, which they owned jointly dow to last year, when after a judgmen ' had been obtained in the state of Texa l. where they pleaded guilty in suit fo
 penalties for combination in restrain
 of trade. They finally paid s40,00O i Il penalties, and then divided up thes oil plants among themselves. Veede T was the clearing house for them. Ina V l have evidence of. So it was import ,. :. ant to examine those records.
 MT. Isaac wired me last night an . l got the telegram this morning, ths ' after he had gone part of the way wit
 the examination of the records ther
 which are in a vault in MT. Veeder
 office. MT. Veeder changed his mind O v the matter. 1 do not know whethe
 that was due to the character of Whf
 was being found or not, but I appre v hend It was from my knowledge (
 some of the things found. MT. McIsaa U tContinued on Page Two)