The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-12-25


washington, Dec. 18-The official
outline Of the agreement reached be-
tween the government and the FIVE
biz packers, as made public tonight BY
the Department Of Justice, follows:
attorney General Palmer today
announced that the FIVE big packers
Armour and Company, Morris and
Company, Swift and Company, Viii
son and Company, and the Cu0ahy
Packering Company, the main sub
salaries and principal stockholders
and managers, have submitted to all
the contentious of the government
consented to the entry of an injunc-
ton decree providing for the carry
inq out Of those contentious.
'Under this decree, the defendants
and each Of them, either as corpora
tons or as individuals, are compelled,
in brief, to sell under supervision of
the United States District Court, pre-
ferably to the livestock producers and
the public, all their holdings in pub
lie stockyards.
fTo sell, under the same supervis-
ion and in like manner, all their in
tereSlS ~ stoShyatN Gill VefAo Htiu
terminals.
no sell, under the same super
vision and in like manner, all their
interests in market newspapers.
eTo dispose Of all their interests in
public cold storage warehouses, ex-
cept as necessary for their own meat
products.
eTo dissociate themselves forever
with the retail meat business.
"To dissociate themselves forever
with all unrelated lines, including
wholesale groceries, fresh, canned,
dried and salf fish, dried or canned
vegetables, fresh, crushed, dried, e.
vaporated or canned fruits, confectA
ionaries, syrups, soda water fountain
supplies etc, molasses, honey, jams,
iellies and preserves, ices, sauces,
relishes, etc, coffda, tea, chocolate,
cocoa, nuts, flour, sugar, rice, and
cereals with an exception to be not
ed), bread, waters, crackers, biscuits,
spaghetti, vernicelli, macaroni, Gig
ars, china, furniture, etc.
ITO abandon forever the use Of the
branc houses, route cars, and auto
trucks, comprising their distribution
system, for any other than their own
meat and dairy products.
To submit perpetually TO the jurls-
diction of tho United States District
Courts under an injunction forbidding
oil the defendants from directly or in
directly maintaining any combination
or conspiracy with each other, or any
other personal or persons, or monop-
olizing or attempting to monopolize,
any food products, in the United
States, or ind4lging in any unfair
and unlawful practice.
The decree further provides that
jurisdiction is perpetually retained by
the courts for the purpose of taking
other action, or adding at tn foot of
the decree such other relief. if any,
that may become necessary or appro-
PIRATE for the carrying out and en-
forcement of the decree or for he pur-
pose of entertaining at any time here
after any application which the par
ties may make with respect to this
decree
Immediately upon Mr.. Palmer be
coming attorney general in March.
1918, he personally took up the char
ges against the packers. and special
assistants were asked to studv the
investigation Of the Federal Trade
Commission, all hearings before COM
gfessional committees, and TO conduct
independent Investigations.
After eight months Of exhaustive
work and the placing Of one branch
q the matter before a Chicago grand
jury the results were ready to be
placed before United States grand
jury, sitting in New York for the
months Of November and December.
Before the opening, however, Of the
hearings before that grand jury. Mr..
Palmer was notified that the defend
ants would submit to all proper re-
,glrements Of the government under