Show OUST I BEEF TRUST FROM MISSOURI Charged With Conspiracy cy and Violation of AntiTrust Anti Anti- Ant Trust Law FIVE BIG PACKING PACING CONCERNS INVOLVED Story of Subterfuge by Which Supposed Independents dents dent Are Controlled JEFFERSON CITY C Mo Juno Jue 2 Attorney Atre General Elliott W. W Major began be b I gan ga ouster our proceedings against aga five meat mat packing companies today by b filing quo I warranto in 1 the tho te supreme spee I court cr Th The Tho companies attacked an are a Armour Ar Ar- maui mour mo Packing company Morris on a Co C Swift Sf Co Co Hammond Packing company corn com cm- cm pany pay and ad St. St at Louis Ls Dresses Dressed Dd Beef Boef Bt and a Provision company The Armour Swift and Morris Mors companies com corn paies are charged cd with violating the trust anti law Jaw and ad conspiracy and the tho te Hammond and St. St Lu Louis Dressed Beef and Provision c companies subsidiary companies of tho National Packing company with conspiracy to control the tho to business in Missouri Tho five companies are aro named in i two petitions which ask ak that tbt the corpora corporations corporations tons bo ho excluded ed from front all al corporate rights that their licenses be forfeited and that all nU or such portions of o their property as a the court coort may deem proper bo be confiscated or in i lieu le thereof a. a fine be imposed Armour Swift and Morris Mon are are with havin entered red into charged having O a 3 conspiracy in 1909 to control the tho prices priced to t be bo paid id by dealers in live lve stock poultry butter eggs dairy and agricultural tural trI products to control the prices to tobo tobe bo be paid by retail and wholesale dealers s for dressed meats and to t control the prices to bo be paid by all wholesale bolee and aad t b al retail dealers for fo poultry but buttery buttor o. o e eggs egg dairy dar and a agricultural products products from the f b live stock at The Tho National Packing the information Worton To fil f filed d Pan in the tho Q company court court cou today toy ale alleges h was incorporated t in i New Now J Jersey Jer Jer- er- er soy sey in 1902 1903 with a n capital stock of ot tc 15 to en engage in i moat mot packing and nna soiling acHing and to t hold stock of 01 any other corporation I The Te National Packing company the tho petition says was was wa not or organized in good faith say for tor tho the purpose of engaging en on- n- n fo in f tho business authorized in its charter charr bat but as a corporate scheme to affect on an official trust among amon the Hamond Hammond and St. St Louis Lu Dressed Beef and Provision companies and ad numerous other corporations individuals and other partnerships en engaged jd in i tho to same business in Missouri and ana throughout the United Unite States with A a. 8 view vew to t l lessen s n restrict and Id destroy detroy competition in the purchase and sale of all al packing house products in which tho the Hammond Hamond and St. St Lu Louis and other companies were dealing and for fixing the tho to prices and andlor for lor limiting tho the amount and quantity of ot packing house products sold and offered for sale in Missouri and throughout hout the tho United States Not in 1 Good G Faith Fat That tho the and to power purpose pur purchase purchase chase and bold hold shares of any other othor corporation and to exercise the rights and privileges of owners of such BUc stock was not inserted in tho the charter of tho the National faith Packing company in i good Jod It I is char charged d in tho the petition that the National Packing company obtained control of tho to Hammond and St. St Lis Liscom Louis com companies which had previously engaged engaged en en- ed in Missouri Missour as legitimate competitors W torn tors tor and that tho the National has baa ha ever over since voted the stock of tho companies collected tho the dividends and used the companies in furtherance of tho the alleged al al- unlawful trust trust The Hammond and St. St Louis companies com corn panics through tho the National Packing company compan the tho attorney charges s. s have b become como members of tho alleged trust and havo have been ben guilty of ot abuso abuse of pf privileges peso pr not granted to them by Missouri Ms Mis Mis- sour sour-i. soun Attorney General Major Maor after alor ho filed fed the tho suits said nid Tim Tho Tho suits were flIed filed led as a result resul of the tho examination conducted recently before before be fore loro former Judge Daniel W. W Dillon DIlon who ho was wa named by the tho supreme court to preside at nt the tho hearings bearings The Tho Ham Barn mend mond Packing company and tho the St. St St Louis Dressed Beef Boet and Provision Pro company com coin pany are owned and controlled in e every er matter mater an and detail deti both in the purchase of live stock and in the tho to sale salo of ot dressed and finished products product by the tho to National Packing company of ot New Jersey Big Packers Own Ow National The Tho National Packing company the tho te hearing developed is owned by three big bil packers Swift owe owns seven fit Armour six fifteenths and Morris Mor Mar ris rig two While Whilo the to National owns tho the supposedly independent corporations cot cor it has been holding them out outto outto outto to tho public as to entities and independent corporation ions and ad competitors compel i tors in business In this way these corporations have havo been and aro are used ed in controlling purchase purchase pur put chase and 5 selling prices I have bavo not instituted suit against the tho Packing Packing- company and because tho the examination which I conducted led ll into a field of inquiry which did id not disclose whether they thoy were guilty of at any violations of ot tho the law Th The packers must mako nako a return to tho the suits stilts by bJ Juno 30 If I demurrers demurrer are filed the they will not be passed upon bYthe by bytho wi fed tho the court until the tho October term bt It If f answers are aro filed fled the tho court mn may appoint n Ii i commissioners commissioner to take tako evidence before adjournment for lor the summer |