Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-23
WATSON CHARGES
AGAINST FEDE RAL
TRADE BOARD ARE
BRANDED UNTRUE.
They Are Merely Part of the
Packers Warfare Against
Certain Government b..
reauS, Says Commission,
CHALLENGES PROOF,
ALSO THEIR SOURCE
Patriotism and Loyalty Of En-
pIoyeS ASSaiIed By Indiana
Senator, Defended Sher-
mans Charges Are Denied,


Washington, Oct 22.-The federal
trade commission, in a formal state
ment today asserted that the charges
made against the commission by sem
ator Wason, republican, Indiana, and
Senator Sherman. republican. Illinois,
were part and parcel OF the warfare
of the Chicago meat packers against
the department of justice and the fed
eral trade commission with the pur-
pose of subverting Justice
The commission said the good faith
of Senator Watsons charges was open
to question when it was remembered
that the senator was lobbyist IN
1909, and ii charged that the senator s
relations with the Chicago packers
were shown by cerlatn correspondence
which the commission had taken from
the files of Wilson d Company,
Declaring the commission and its
employees had long been subject TO an
attack" that the public has never
known about 1.-THE commissions state
ment said that while it was investi-
eating the meat packers the govern
ments S representatives were trailed by
detectives and that the commission S
offices were entered "surreptitiously,"
IHttdilitS ttlal lllS ZIG $40 VI potft
Senators Watson and sherman had
been made in detail, the commission
declared 1t challenges the proof, and
wfth tfie proof rnSr' sosr9Ue dsu tiFs
means by which they were formu-
lated
Agents Summoned as Witnesses.
Reciting that some of the eom-
missions agents had been summoned
as witnesses in the case against the
packers which the department of jus
tice soon is to present federal grand
jury at Chicago, the commission asked
if it was a coincidence that these men
were the men assailed in Senator Wat
sons charges that the commission was
a hotbed of Bolshevism, sedition and
anarchy.
When the commission made public
it's statement Senator Watson s
charges were being discussed on the
floor of the senate. The Indiana SEN
ator said the information on which
they were based came from inside the
commission itself" and had not been
furnished by the packers.
Senator Kenyon. republican, Iowa,
said the commission never was attack"
ed until it had nerve enough to tell
the people something about the pack
ers" while Senator Harris democrat,
Georgia, vigorously defended the COM
mission He said there might be a.
few exceptions, but that as whole
there are no more efficient or hon
orable employees in this government
than those of the federal trade COM
mission
The trade commissions reply toI
Senator Watsons charges follows In
part:
The charges made against the fed
eral trade commission by United
States Senator James f Watson of
Indiana, coupled with other and serl-
Gus charges made against the commis-
sion by senate resolution by Senator
sherman of Illinois, require answer
These things are part and parcel
of the warfare of the Chicago meat
packers against the department of JUS
tice and the federal trade commission
with the purpose of subverting JUS
tlce.
sherman Offers No Proof.
"The sherman charges were answer
cd fully bv the commission in July and
since that time the author OF the
charges has not offered one word oil
the proof which he claimed to have.
Instead of making good the fllst
charges new ones are brought, The
commission challenges proof OF thei
Sherman charges it challenges proof
of the Watson charges: the bonafldes
of these charges is open to question
when it is remembered that Senator
Watson was a lobbyist in 1909 as was
shown in the report of the house OF
representatives committee December
1918. His relations with the chicago
packers are shown by certain corfe-t |
spondence which Is here quoted;
John c. Eyersman, in February
1918, was in the employ of Wilson d
Company as special representative
in Weshjngton Associated with MN
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