Show HAVE JOINED HANDS Railroads and PackingHouse Interests Inter-ests Agree to Maintain Prices Chicago Jan 22 Presidents of Western West-ern railroads and all the big packinghouse packing-house Interests west of Chicago to the Missouri river have joined hands with K view to assisting each other to obey the provisions of the Interstate commerce com-merce law The alliance was completed at a meeting held here today at Which were present high officials representing all of the Interests involved and It is expected ex-pected that the action taken will result in an absolute maintenance of freight rates on packinghouse products and dressed beef from the Missouri river to the Atlantic seaboard The following packinghouses signed tho agreement Armour Co Swift Co Nelson Morris Co The G H Lfanunond company the Cudahy Interests Inter-ests Schwarzschlld Sulzbergcr AngloAmerican Provision company Omaha Packing qompany and Ruddy Bros The roads party to the agreement are Santa Fe Rock Island Burlington SL Paul Northwestern Great Western Alton Al-ton Illinois Central Wabash Missouri Pacific Frisco Omaha and St Louis It is understood that the Harriman and Hill people will not come to Chicago Chi-cago for Fridays Investigation Into the effects of the community of Interest upon trame Mr Hill and Mr Harrl man have obtained legal advice that a fcmljudlclal body like the commission cannot compel testimony relative to a matter which IB pending In tho courts The legality of the organization of the Northern Securities company Is at present pres-ent before the United States Supreme court The Interstate Commerce commission com-mission will reach Chicago tomorrow morning What Its programme will be Is a matter of conjecture |