The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-31

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'''r on.ouIation-Story of Beefsteak
' 10 congressman Mann-His
p' Service for Packers-Trust's
I'p p, Hidden By Juggled Books
TT'p'I ,ntroduces Important Educa-
SA piIl-Peace Conference Takes
~ s,ri on Russia
.,;noton. D. C.,-Francis J.
was testifying before the SEN
''r .s,roroittee on agriculture. The
4 dor consideration was the Ken
lii drafted IN the department
\ 'rjculture for the innocent use OF
nsmOcratic senator from Wyom-
~ the supposed purpose of Sc
4, government control of stock
p' stock cars, refrigerator cars
nd storage warehouses "to
Mate the production, sale and dis
ZION of livestock and livestock
.,,trcts." The Kendrick bill was q
',spss thing, because it proposed
sing" Heney knew it. He dill
want to say so at the start, so
h ..Ikpd about the big packers and
r. The government must smash
4. monopoly of the food business
l ibis country
SrstOr Norris, Senator Kenyon
4, Senator Gronna, by turns, drew
H. Heney the story of the fight he
~ as counsel for the federal trade
emission, to get into the private
a. vaults of Henry Veeder, coun-
|. tr Swift & Co., to secure papers
In he believed would prove that
h five big packers were operating a
In in handling" public officials.
|Ider denied their authority TO
arch. Hugh McIsaac, an examiner
h the commission, persuaded Veeder
TO through the papers in the vault
Inlet McIsaac read such ones as
/ Hier chose to give him. Veeder
r.ys salary of $1,000 a year for
|rcevemeSs in seeing that the pack
/ d secrets are guarded.
MANN'S BEEFSTEAK
'NcISaac reported to me-" said
|Eaey, "that he saw one letter which
Iadpr wrote to Louis Swift, during
b time the Borland resolution de-
Ishdng an investigation of the
Ekers, was pending in committee in
! house. In that letter Veeder told
! ih that he had had a good many
j Ks with James R. Mann, who now
he Republican leader in the house,
] ID that as he was going away the
! b time Mann remarked to him that
4 J lad not had a good beefsteak in a
" time. Veeder sent him a $3.50
Eak and he asked Louis Swift
neaer it should be charged to the
aagO house or the Washington
Na Of the firm. Swift wrote back.
appeared, that the steak could be
aged to the Chicago office, but that
Lam ought not to be given more
~ SIX or seven steaks in a year"
mere was laughter at this revela-
MOf the methods and the ittleness
packer and politician. Senator
ns remarked that Swift had not
aRfstOod congressional appetities
y we'll, to limit the steaks to seven
year! Senator Hendricks, Demo.
Y all the time smiled cheerfully
50 did his Republican friends
5ns, Kenyon and Gronna. They
aoWn to bits the political future
ne leading old guard candidates
we speakerShip of the next con,
p@ The only member of the com.
le who looked sad was Jimmie
'3Vorth of New York, who is 9
lose henchman and a stockholdel
ssslt & Co. Ed Ward, organizer o.
ives post truck routes, whispere,
a0her grinning spectator tina
saa had sold his speakership for :
TAeak, which was one more argu
= lor reducing the high cost o
aANN'S 1O-YEAR SERVICE
~sAey told of another letter re
~elg jim Mann, which was discov
Oy one of his assistants, Docto
= adams. 1t was dated 1907 o
The period when the horribl
anO cruelty to employees in tn
ag plants was told to the coun
" Upton Sinclair's book, 9Th
and congress was passing
establishing federal inspection G
~ packing. The packers wer
against the government IL
avn OF their products.
nus letter it was shown tn:
mad presented a horse to Coz
nan Mann, and the delighte
s''sSman had written him a PR
"''ef OF thanks, saying that tt
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