OCR Text |
Show WANTED FIGURES S KEPT A SECRET , . r l for Pear the Information Would fall Into Un-welcome Un-welcome Hands. CHICAGO, Feb. 14. John M. . Shaplln was on the stand When the hearing In the packers case was resumed today. He wa: ,,xamined by Attorney Hynes for the "packers n reference to a meeting of the board Of directors of Swift A Co., which was hold for the purpose of deciding what information would be given out to the aponts of Commissioner Garfield. The witness asserted that ' Mr. 8wlft - told Mr. Durand, -who represented the Government at the plant of Swift A Co., that he desired all information to be held secret, as under a conference of administration, adminis-tration, the figures relating to the busi-h4h busi-h4h might fall into unwelcome hands. Avir. Durand replied that Commissioner rfrfle(i would ' decide what information ,ruld be given out. ' . |