Show fiRST i JCK I IN 1 FIGHT i 7 I Application For an Injunction junction Aled led By gy Government Gover Attorneys in Chicago Petition Is Sweeping fa ir It its Is Character Cha acter Attorney Knox K x Approves the litigation n a I CHICAGO May lay li 11 With the e ll Ii l j approval of Sc AU P q n r J Co C Bathe Bethea this evening e g filed with the clerk of the federal fedora I circuit court e rt here a bill for an injunction sweeping sw epIn io I ip character designed to 10 destroy th the al nI alleged d giant conspiracy con to Illegally eon con control trot the meat trade if It the United States Stales e eThe The original of the bill was waS recorded the moment it was filed flied and was at once placed in the official files of the court clerks cl rk office At the thet same me time District Attorney Bethea so notice that at 2 p m in May 20 he be win wilt appear appeal before Federal Judge Gro eup and ask uk for a temporary the packers and their representatives under the Sherman law When the case cane shall come com up for r hearing bearing May 20 District Attorney Bethea will be present in person to place his arguments in support of a motion for a temporary Injunction He tIl Ia will be assisted ant ted by Attorneys C B D Morrison on and Oliver P from rom his office and probably by Special Council W W Day Plans Flans of f the Defense What the defendants will do now that the government has the proceedings was waa fore tore forecasted canted by one of or theft representatives e eThey They will not make a fight on May 20 according to this authority They will wUl submit to the entry of an order en on enjoining joining them from the acts acta complained of in the bill and nd wilt will promise to re refrain refrain retrain frain train from further alleged violation of the law until vatU the time of the next hear hearing hearIng ing bIg That probably will be about out a June M to Before fore the tile latter date 4 ay will have filed a demurrer in the Ute in insufficiency insufficiency sufficiency 6 of the governments l petition will win be alleged This ThIn demurrer It IL ILls is In said will raise an important point un an d ie e in eo regula regulate te t I the e that hat Use Che Cheto m enic a i ht to In nOt noc i f ithe the th ent that Cht th demurrer ta e shall ball be 0 d tile the packers will win still It have ye yet t I the fee privilege of ef filing an answer which I will a further hearing on t I the merits mer s of ef the governments charges If It on tile the rother other hand band the demurrer shall be sustained the federal attorney I can file an amended bill blU blUr r Plenty of Evidence Offered Copies of the government bill bUI were I received r at Mr Or Beths office omee today through U ugh the mail by y special delivery attorney and his assistants assI tants I then made out a notice to the defend defern defendants defendants ants counsel and after swearing swe to toI toI I the bill Mr tr Bethea flied filed it I I The petition charges conspiracy un an unlawful lawful combination c blacklisting il ii illegal iiI I legal cartage charges an illegal credit agreement creating false market I prices illegally depressing sl the market and accepting railway rallay rebates All of at atI I tha principal packing companies organ 1 t under the laws of New N w Jersey I Michigan New York and nd Illinois are made parties to the defense e and all are residents of Illinois save nave ve Mr Sulzberg er and Mr Noyes of New ew York and B E BC EC BC I C Swift of Boston ton Bo The government recites that their plants and nd yards yarM are UP at Chicago Kan Kansas Kansas I sas sac City OmaRa St Joseph Jo Sioux City East St Louis COda y Win Wis Winand and Ind lad Owing to the numerous communications received by the attorney general from all allover over the country volunteering evidence of the illegal practices practice of the alleged beef Mer trust and because of the limited force of the tile department here and in Chicago the district attorneys throughout the country have been di dl directed directed to examine into the testimony offered and forward the ame to the department |