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Show I MUSES MCES f Packers First, an Be Broken by Law. GE SECOND, BE REMEDIED He Third, and This ad Must Be erised. ION 0. ADAMS, to lUe Tribune. Mav 7. Prosecutor of P. Garvon. Republican, c N. J-. who conducted investigation before tho cl, resulted In the Jn-,ty-onc beef packers ns x companies as corporals corpora-ls cold storage methods rts and increase prices, nit of my Investigation e thcro arc three prime present high prices of sd products, poly whch con be bro-ous bro-ous and strict enforce-r. enforce-r. Second, the present cold storage to control tho market at the will ns meats, poultry ana bo remedied by proper w of the uses of cold the tariff, with a duty half a pound on cattle, ,P to about 515 a head, of the markets of this t supply of cattle from lubllc. Canada and Moxl-othenviso Moxl-othenviso bo nvallahlc. ds in holding and maln-prophot, maln-prophot, btit 1 venture c men who created and ie meat monopoly were and sentenced to im-if im-if cold storage houses plated by law and the as to make possible the it beef supply, the presold pres-old fall to such an cx-ild cx-ild not be a burden to If and family upon the as It is today." red Than Hurt, uslon here Is that the : by the recent April cat and south has been ia.ted. "While it is ad-fruit ad-fruit may have been ly sections, it is not be-irable be-irable damase has been id cotton, though these ave been cut down and per cotton crop which e present shortage has is feared the losses rtlzzard, though not as estimated, will be suf-bad suf-bad effect on business. ; Marfced Path, irrls. K. C. M. G.f proof pro-of of Newfoundland and progressive officials ever 0 slopped in New York The Hague. "Is there Newfoundland over the ;'" he was asked. "No. it lay any blame at the Ie of the United States, are merely following the their government. Now, ind is going to ask The s to- give an inlerpreta-y, inlerpreta-y, not according to our cording to the reading by the British govern-s govern-s of the crown in Eng-tlie Eng-tlie treaty nearly 100 ons will last from .Tune I the tribunal will have iich to consider and reu-It reu-It la a matter for con-two con-two great countries like s and England should he J arbitration largo ques-ils. ques-ils. Fifty years ago. or l dispute probably would war, but we are getting Eeciprocity. wild like to seo recl-thc recl-thc United Slates and nd said that the treaties had been killed In the ttate through the influ-uceater influ-uceater fisheries owners. Bh coming from New-)l New-)l interfere with their , They were mistaken. d to kgII in the same I are millions of people states today beyond the wester fishery trudo who .T a fresh codfish who Mi vcry day for 4 and I If we bad reciprocity." 10 Newfoundland's mln-W'P. mln-W'P. for which it Is also K ln the United States. In nes" WaS for'rcci" Cotton Market. hw,r Play' a,ld dated Weji speaks right out in Sam"1?.1 ,nv-'Htigatlon IJJBfeffiy; t0 a ct of boar sW& em.er l, ,nalj,J 'turn rJBi fflC; ,?,lhe most uut- SBSwbJf.WrBlslcd in will 3ZM8$ ralS 5evion- and. if itifiW To ihr. boBln In tho pEClMUi writer's positive JMta b, t,,'' cotton to -irtV!(W,laIiiE ?.erea n May oon-)&?,en? oon-)&?,en? tl,lfl wouldbe Mfit being a Sp: 33 "t would rtKtmcisn,' t0 r'!liuy July lav" m Z M?B .new for Jfe. Such , LIT dol"B and InG'KJW hv Thorefoix-. being flrfRtusC""23 an(1 have vt IEJ iiitJi li lh1 banks of , SlS'm?1 into r onerto. rf ST"" money ' ',co"niracy fllt P world, as the I Cotton. on such clothes to the consumer, jb .lnnt per cent of our wearing apparel toda s retallinp at the same, prices as when col-ton col-ton was five cents less; the great cost comes In tho manufactuie-muklns up Into tho ready-made carnu-nla and then the jobber's and retailers profits. An.-ld-vanco or ono-hulf cent a pound on b itter, it-ter, meat and sugar or two cents c bushel on wheat would be a much B enter burden for the consumer lo be: r limn an advance of five cents a pound 011 raw cot- t0"' Looks like a Combine Wnllaci W. Atterbury, vico president of the Pennsylvania In chiiiK'J of operations, oper-ations, and T- Do Witt Cuylor, adJnictor of both the Pennsylvania and the- banta Fe aro on a tour over tho lattci tern. This fact bar, caused much speculative specula-tive sosslp as to the future relations of these two big systems. d rcvlv the old story or their bolner f"1?el,?1 fotV" a continuous "no of nillrond from th Atlantic to the Pnclfir. lavy lime U has been brought out, It has boon met with the "statement that tho is not nmbltlous to o west boyoi" Its present termini and would neve do p. Thopfl who aro reminded of thiit poUo say that tho situation now Is afolall chnnKcd by prospective oKlHlatlon at WaBhlnEto,u Foclliral regulation might hereafter lntcrforo w Hh any Biioh ar-rangoment ar-rangoment and It Is therefore cab er and probably wiser to consummato it now than when anything llko a morger or consolidation con-solidation would bo subject In ovory particular par-ticular to close sonitiny by a federal t.om- mlThlininlornatlonal Hnrvcstor company. In Its report, for the Usual year ended December 31. 1000. ohows l'11S In business and profitu In all t01-both t01-both domeat c and foreign. Gross salos amounted to f86.G14.550 an Increase over the previous year of J.0?3'7' ?uD: profits available for, dividends of 892.740. a gain of f6.007.0M. 8n los of agricultural Implements fell Hllghtly behind be-hind those of tho banner year. 1907. I ut tho loss was made up in sales of wwoiw, bugglet. and mlBcellaneoUfl Produots, so that tho total sales ant year exnoeiloo there of 1907 by S. 107.659. and wero far In cjl-cohh of all previous roconls. |