Show EVIDENCE SHOWS A STRONG COMBINE oi Of CHICAGO PACKERS I IMet Met Once Each V WeeK ek Fixed Prices and Allotted V Territory t s L CHICAGO CAGO Nov 14 14 H. With the thIS trial pt of members the tha of or called Beet Beer trust set for next Monday in the United States State district die dis trl court ourt on the charge of criminal l violation vio lation of or the tha Sherman trust anti-trust act it became known today that since the return re return re- re turn of or the indictments there hall half ha been a complete reorganization of or tho the National Packing comp company ny In the opinion of ot government gov gov- ov- ov of officials this company compan Is tle Central point o of the so called trust Private weekly meetings at which the government charges prices were fixed territories allotted and amounts o of Interstate Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state shipments by each firm decided have lave been discontinued and in their place monthly meetings arc now held by the directors Edward Tilden president of or the thA company company company com com- pany and one of the ten men under indictment in iu 1 remains as president and director tor J. J Ogden Armour Edward Morris 1 the Swifts Swift's and the tho other othor defendants have have havee resigned lesl e Nine men Instead of nineteen now make up the board of directors Meetings 1 Held for Years The Tha grand Jury acting on the testimony testimony testimony mony of or Jerome II It Pratt head of or the tho but beet be f sales s department of Armour S Co regardIng the tho business transacted at these weekly secret meetings meeting found that they had been in vo vogue VORUP ul lone before 1102 1902 when tho the government tU filed Hed d its Us first st bill I of ot injunction and had continued r ular- ular I I Ij ly up to the time of the Indictment Pratt testified that the memorandum showing th the amounts to be shipped b bv by Armour Co were taken by him hm to Thomas G G. G Le L W dressed d beef manager of 01 Armour O C Co each eich Tuesday to tin the up Wrt r tl tf time of his s withdrawal that this rs matlon mation served as 18 Lees Lee's guidance the week he ho also was Informed of the amounts allotted to Swift i. i Co Moi Mm rig rig- Co and the G G II 11 Hammond company company com com- pany that written 1 summaries' summaries were prepared prepared pre pre- pared each vach showing the amount of the weeks week s sales to be used as data for tin next private meeting that he h had d been furnished ni weekly e y printed t tables showing 1 m lri ic the margins margins' t of difference e between cost and selling price al at the other three plants and that lee and amI other officials had habitually referred d to the big bl picking packing companies p lr bj by arbitrary code ie totters e eInA and sIl Il not b by their e corporate c t names s in n speak e ing InA Rn and writing of them in connection with matters matteis of tato |