The Washington times., 1919-02-03
HENEY USES NOTE
FOUNDAT HEARING

A memoranda, alleged to have been
written by Louis F. Swift while ne
was testifying before the senate Ag-
riculture Committee and accidentally
left on the table, was introduced into
the committee record as evidence TO-
day by Francis J. Heney. The mem
oranda is on a small card, written In
ink lengthwise by al. A. C." referring
TO W. F. Priebe, Food Administrator
dollar-a-year man. and charged py
Heney with having Swift connections:
crisscrosslng the writing by L. A. =.
Is penciled note signed IL +. D
which says:
'PFiebe matter shows US up rotten.
am ashamed It got this way and
sorry we cannot change over to swift
& Co. or sell out. Think we must
The note written in ink by IA A.
c." says:
IL. f.. s.e-It is embarrassing the
whole poultry business whether
would be less so changing name TO
Swift & Co. is matter 1 have men
TONED to you and the others and IL
without conclusion. Ia A. G.
Heney introduced the memoranda
when the committee convened this
morning over the objection Of Senator
Carroll S. Page Of Vermont, who said
that he did not think IL ian honorable
thing to do In introducing as evidence,
private memoranda left by mistake"
Chairman Gore ioverruled the OBJ
lection stating that "in this case IL is \
a matter affecting millions Of pro-
ducers and is a public, not. private,
matter"
Chairman Gore was supported by
Senator Norris Of Nebraska
Heney Found Il In Book.
'In going over my papers" said
Francis ]. Heney, who cross-examiuadi
Swift, "I came across this copy Of
the Federal Trade Commissions re-
port on the packers. which had besn
used by Mr. Swift while was cross-4
examining him. Il was marked NJ 1
leaves in several places and about IN |
the center was this memoranda. It
had evidently been left in the book /
which was also left on the table at
the conclusion Of the cHpssexamina- |
tion and whoever gathered up the |
things on the table thought il be-
longed to me. That is how happen |
ed to have II among my papers. 1 |
W. F. Priebe, OF the poultry division !
Of the Food Administration, a dollar
a-year man, was charged by Heney /
with having Swift & Co. connections
and using his position to favor Swift |
& Co., through Priebe & Co, a poul-
try firm in which Heney claims Swift /
has a majority OF the stock.
Heney stated to the committee Sat
urday while w. A. Glasgow. jr., Food
chief counsel was on
the stand and defended Priebe, that
had been filed by him against
Priebe for his alleged misconduct
with the Food Administration. This
Glasgow denied, saying that the let
ters presented him by one Of the Fed
eral Trade Commission as evidence
against Priebe, did not warrant ''the
tanning of Mr.. Priebe's character"
Legislation for the regulation of
The packers kalong the lines laid
down in the Kendrick bill was de-
cIared to be impossible" by l. d.
Fl. Weld. manager of the CONNER
ciaI Research Department. of Swifta
G; Company today, who appeared be-
fore the Senate Committee: on Agri-
culture. He said the proposed
bills are merely a sop to a misin-
formed public which Is ignorant of
the necessities of the packing in
dustry, and to radical agitators-"
The witness charged that the
Federal Trade Commission had sup
pressed documents taken from the
private files Of Swift & Company
which proved the exact opposite Of
the Federal Trade Commissions
On the matter Of privately owned
refrigerator cars It was declared that
the packers had built them as an
necessity.
IAN attempt has been made he
said, "to show. favoritsim from the
railroads because Of the fact that
the privately owned refrigerator car
has a greater mileage than the rail-
-oad-owned car. That is absud. Our
department keeps a
close check on our cars; il sees that
they are loaded promptly and that on
arrival at destination they are
promptly unloaded and returned"
Order Against Prices Paets.
Mr.. Weld also read instructions
rom Swift & Co. managers
% their assistants in which orders
we're given that there was to be no
agreement, either written or verbal,
With any competitor relative to prices
paid for cream at country buying
stations. He charged that tAs Fad
,ral Trade Commission had access to
hese instructions, but 1t failed to
Ise them in its report.
He denied specifically thai there
vas any division of trade or terri
.ory between the packers, and said
hat the commission bases its case
IN an alleged agreed division OF live
stock receipts. In summing up his
estimony the witness charged that
he Kendrick bill would tend in the
ong run to increase costs to tire cOu-
umer.