The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-01-16
COLvER TELLS Of.
fRAMEUP ON BOARD
CHARGES DEPARTMENT or JUS.
TicE AGENTS IN PLOT AGAINST
FEEDER RAJ COMMISSION
SAYS PACKERS HAD A HAND
Big Five Alleged to Have connived to
Oiscredit Board.-competitio 10
Steadily Icssening in the Meat
Producing Industry

Washington. Jan. i0~-Chnrges that
arrests of federal trade commission
| employees made In the recent depart
meni OF justice campaign against
rcd" have been the result Of frame
ups" designed To build the theory that
the commission sis II l,otbed OF boil
shevism' were made Yesterday by w.
u. Colyer, of that body. before the sen
ate agricultural committee Colver left
the intimniion that the larger Chicago
packing concerns had connived In some
degree to attain the result and involv-
ed Ludwig &. A. X. Martens, self
styled ambassador of the Russian SOW
let repoblic TO the United States, and
y. Nuorteva, Martens secretary, In his
account OF Instances to prove the point
Given II whole day before the COM
mittee, which last night announced it's
hearing ended. colver likewise voiced
a vigorous campaign to regulate the
Industry, need Of which was proved.
he said. by the recent agreement be.
tween the packers and the department
Of Justice In settlement of antitrust
proceedings.
TO this testimony the commissioner
added critical analysis of statements
and motives OF witnesses who have
opposed packer regulations during the
prolonged hearings of the agriculture
committee on the Kenyon nhd Ken
hrick bills last year, concluding with
hs Inn hal ~
try competition ~ continuing to les
sen and monopoly to increase even
though We exhaust the powers OF pres
ent federal laws 10 restrain It, In
the first instance, the commissioner
snid. "the frame-up had resulted i'm
the arrest Of Rafael Mallen, a former
clerk for the trade commission, In
raids directed last week al Chicago
communist centers by the department
OF Justice. Henton y. Clabaugh. head
nf the secret service ut Chicago, and
his assistant, Philip J. Barry, Colver
said, both Of whom have since resign
ed, We're responsible, ana Barry now
Is Il special agent" for Swift, and NAL
len was later released.
Johann Ohsoi. another employe Of
the commission, Colver said, was ar.
rested In n Washington hotel this week
while on II visit to Nuorteva. Read
lng IN alleged claim of Nuorteva and
MarteQs that purchases of large meat
supplies from Chicago packer had
been arranged with the object of get
ting 1t into Russia through the allied
blockade. colver said he considered
this connection between meat packers
and the soviet representatives "signifi-
can't as II concerned Ohsols arrest.
and later since the latter had been
taken into custody when he came In
to see Nuorteva In answer to Il specific
telephone call
Dealing with persons who discussed
regulative legislation before the com.
mlttee since the Kenyon and Kendrick
bills were advanced. Colver said that
out of ISL heard. 144 had opposed any
federal control Of the Industry. many
he said, because they had been In
flnenced by propaganda from packer
institutions.
To show that the consumer was not
getting any benefit from lower live
stock prices, Colver presented n dia-
gram showing that on August |, live
hogs sold nj 23 cents pound, pork
ioins sold In Boston for 34h cents,
while on October ..3. when live hogs
sold NJ l2,s cents. loins sold at 37n
cents In Boston.