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Show WEEPING SETTLEMENT MADE WITH DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE si All Interests Save Thoe Directly Allied With MeaJ;, packing Are to Be ; Gotten Rid Of at Once. I---'' ' Stockyards; Grojery''and Other Enterprises to Be Cut Off; Palmer Credited for Action. VA5-jTINGTOX, IVc l, Tho pov. eruincij I ' an ti-t rust sui against the great-meat packers, tw-jua at J're-.idojtt Wilkin's iHrrctign last summer as JVi of the flftt ou." f ht bi.eV.'Cof Jljf-itui, Jljf-itui, hag been "cVm hrori.u-'tt-'i un.dpr a ifT e e di e n t 1 . h y w h ifh ' r t h 6 i;xc f er s il ojfjn!U tfee in selves , f'rUf jJjp ifo meat and provision business; An injunctioQ decree to which iho packers have acceded, will bo eniercd. in the federal courts lo mako thit fl-.rtL-e-rneut binding. Under its terms the lii? five swift, Armour, Morris, , Wilson nnd Cudahy have agreed to divorce their meat parking Industrie.! froru other -comntor.eial aetivitk-s and to sell Iheir holdings in putdic stockyards Riol their inieresis ni ptockyard railroads, terminals, market newspapers and similar sim-ilar "side lines," Two years are pjiven. to ctimplv with the decree, which afiV-cta eiyhty-iovcii corporations and foriy-am indi vidualf. 'In general,'' said Attorney General Taltner's official announcetnent tti ni'hr, ' ' this decree prevents the dV-feu-dnnts from exercising any further control con-trol over th$ marketing of livfsUK-k. It forever prevents them from any control con-trol over th3 relailin of meat products. IX)SE GUIP ON FOOD T.UJLE IN AMERICA. "It eliminates them from tho field o? meat substitute!, with the exception of etfus, butter, poultry and cheese, which are left for future consideration and action; and hence, the price of meat i? within the control ot the people them-alvcs. them-alvcs. H places the conduct of these 4r.')J itions of capital immediately under un-der the eye of a federal court with reference ref-erence to their business practices. "Jtut, rearer than all, it establishes the principle lhat no group of mm, no matter how powerful, can ever attempt to control the food table of the American Amer-ican people or any one of the neceti-tit.s neceti-tit.s or component parts of it, "Th-' department of justice, having in mind the nrcessirieji arid intorept? i the whole . American Toople in this critical crit-ical reconstruction peritnl, feels that bv insisting UTon thia surrender ou t he part of packing inton.-sts it has accomplished accom-plished more for the American people than could have been hoped for as the result or a long drawn out legal battle." bat-tle." NO ADMISSION OF GUILT, LAWYER SAYS. While Mr. I'alm"T viowj the riaci'Ts' submission to the guv.Tnin.'.lil i-on-t'iiition. as a ''surrender,'' Henry V... der, iiuii-p1 for ,-wift and c.iini.i:iny, :iiinou;u''d that the' step vpa taken at tht ?Uiivr-Kitiou of the department of justice, to Avoid any appearance of rta-t.ignnizJftg rta-t.ignnizJftg Koyernmeat and to re- nmvo cauiie? of friction with livestock producers and ffM.-j distributors. Km-phaiieally Km-phaiieally Mr. Veeder stated that ihii decree was not to ho construed as ru admission that ?wift and company had violated any law. ' Te comjiftny foe.la tjj.-it the sauii' purlt wfeiek aused Ch business men d tt 0QBtr7 to snbmtt to personal mamiReea to win the wary" n salrL 'W jo4 aa esseatW doibe tUr p rlod oil rwonstxustio as lien an4 tk.Ttfor It Ket8 ttt ivqueri of tbt foTernmcnt for ti sacnflr lit w interests. The company has Consented to the entry of a decree for injunction only upon the expressed condition that it should, in so man' words, recite that the decree d-s not adjudicate that the companv has violated any law of the United 'States." OVERTURES BEGUN BY BIG PACKERS. Attorney General Palmer said that overtures for a compromise came first from the packers, after the department of justice had placed its evidence before be-fore a errand jury in Chicaso. The attitude of Morris & Company was expressed by M. V. Borders, general counsel, who said the firm had consented (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) -' V ) IBIG FIVE' IB DISPOSE OF m SIDE LIES i. Stockyards, Grocery and j Other Enterprises to '; Be Cut Off. ! (Continued From Pago One,) f to the decree "In the .spirit of true Amer- ica ni;;m.'' "We gave up certain legal rights ana made certain busiiK-.-'s sncriiices In order io mci;t. the, views of tho government," ho fintli u&J,"arjl to fjrvr net at rest the it it infMinj.iolj' jft ihef. Apicriean table , tii : packers'. Iii this pe, iod of reeon-mi reeon-mi ioii :Vi i ft tflnflHt'.fe ,d. sired to pro-. pro-. .tt: c.'finU, coftt ifou m and stable ndi uAh"' j .eft ':'rV' . Bills pro;inyln, ovJ"anifiit regulation fit tho packing' mdust'ry' now before tho senate agriculture committee will not he abandoned an a result of the decree, Senators Konyon of Jowa a ml Kendrick of Wyoming, authors of the measures, announced an-nounced tonight. MERELY A STEP, M'KENDRICK SAYS. "The attorney general's victory Is merely mere-ly a stop, though a very long one, toward the goal we havo been seeking to attain," paid Mr. Kcndriok. "Tho fruits of his victory may be made permanent only by legislation along the lines of tho measures now pending." Senator Kendrirk said the decree was the "most telling blow" yet delivered niuilnst the high cost of living. Senator Konyon den la red the government should maintain over the packers the control provided by the pending bills, inasmuch us "It Is evident they were building the groa test monopoly the country has ever known." Retirement of the packers from all lines of business except tho meat and produce business ends, a fight of long standing, which has been an Issue In elections and political debates for years, the subject of much attempted legislation, the cause of tho expenditure of thousands of dollars In Investigations and untold bitterness between the packers on the one hand, nnd tho government, livestock producers and small business firms on the other. Started by President. The present settlement is an outgrowth of an investigation started by the federal trail o commission by direction of President Presi-dent Wilson on February 7, 1!17. A letter let-ter reviewing that work and what It accomplished ac-complished was transmitted to the White House tonight by Chairman Murdock and his associates. "The commission thanks you, Mr. President," Presi-dent," the letter said, "for your unswerving un-swerving support in Its labors; acknowledges acknowl-edges the sympathetic co-operation of the department of agriculture and the department de-partment of justice and tho other branches of the government, and of the many good citizens whose aid has made the completion of its task possible; and, lastly, the patience and generosity of the congress and of its committees In both houses.'' Much evidence obtained by the commission com-mission from the private files of the packers pack-ers was inade public, despite determined opposition, in ex-parte hearings in Washington Wash-ington and other cities, which were sensational sen-sational In their revelations of financial manipulation by means of dummy directors, di-rectors, bearer warrants and other devices de-vices to conceal tho persons involved. When the Investigation was transferred to Chicago, a hot legal fight resulted from a raid on the private vault of Henry Vceder, from which Francis J. Heney of San Francisco, special counsel for the commission, took letters and papers alleged al-leged to have related to collusion between tho packers to control the market and prices of livestock.' Veeder stopped Heney irom further examination of his files by obtaining a federal Injunction, pending which both sides maintained guards around tho vault night and day. |