Show REPORT TO SUIT StilT PACKERS Touchy About Use of Word Combination In Any Way GARFIELD HUMORED THEM Dura ml tid Slum in ins of t to Government GO Agents Not i Satisfactory Chicago o M arch 1 James I.-James James R. R Garfield Oar Gar field neill United Slates States commissioner I oC or corporations changed e his hl report on the beef hebr Inquiry at the thc request of ot the Chicago packers ers E n. Dana Dura Durand ml I testified ed to this fact today at time the hearing o or of time the packers lI before rore Ju Judge ge humphrey Dura Durand ml said he and Commissioner Garfield came to Chicago February 28 25 1905 and met mot some sortie of or the packers at atthe atthe atthe the office onice of or the lie National Packing company compan This part of the testimony hail had to do 10 with the submission of the Garfield report in the time rough to the packers for their theil approval The rho next tIn day tifty Durand Duran said another meeting was held when the figures In iii the tho report on profits profits' were vere verified by the books At this time he sal said Mr 11 Carfield Garfield Car Car- field was vas requested not to publish the thc facts concerning the amount of or stock tock held by E Edward Eard ard Morris In Jn Swift Co This was eliminated Want Xo So Reference to Combine Another protest against the report was that no reference should be made to a combination The report cited died a hypothetical case If IC there were a combination the prices would woul be etc which E Edward Morris ask asked d be he cut out otti because e tho thu packers did not want ant even cn an intimation or reference of an alleged allege com combine lne to appear in inthe I the lie report 1 G irl reviewed his recital of or an Interview with Arthur Meeker of or Armour Armour Ar Ar- mour incur Co Cu February 7 7 1901 i. He to said balance sheets for lot oleo beef beer and hides ero produced and Mr 11 Robertson a special a agent ent had remarked at the time There nu must t tbt be bt other profits than thc these He said he then requested the tho packers hackers to show the thc profits from from other othel departments In Inthe Inthe Inthe the beef hee department than those ut at hand S Nothing Hut lImit Averages rhe They told me It was Impossible to distinguish from Crom the tho profits of or theother tho the other department ment said the wl witness nes did not take taice awa an anything thI but We Yc away on the t 1 Jle tho S I r nr flom the ho I 0 ej elaborate i l m ma Hs s of 1 that ha hat had been shown sho None of 0 the detail figures was vas gin given gi en Sn to tho the bureau A memorandum was then read Uthe tc U the jury by E. E M M. r. r for the government showing the tho results of or th the interview lew mentioned rime Tho witness said a freight rate was IlS wasI I arrived d at by ly computing computing- the various f commodities an and prices but but the actual rate and co cost t prices were elC never ne sent to Washington The llie profit on Cattle J per ier I head the witness s said ald h he tol told old Mr r. Meeker I would not b be published except at nl an average elace At the be conclusion of or the time examination of the books the witness ss sti said stid Mr Meeker I sll suggested g tell that the no the several Olal O lal agents us might want to look 1001 the at-the other othor balance sheets sheet These c were ere shown II ho hut but the witness declared the they dill did not show tho figures on fin the car eRr lines of the Armour rino r fertilizer works Xo XI Car Cm Line Profits ts Mr rr paid the thc books bools C of the Uw lie Armour car car- carlines lines hues were not examined anti and if any of f the time profits In of or that business business busi busi- ness were to tp be he figured ii in the beef beet business B it was a never 11 done lone Did you II hear Arthur Meeker 1 ker testify testify f fy that Mr Mt Garfield had ex examined lh iho books ool s of at dl he departments as asked Mr Mi- la Cc S 5 I I 1 did Is that the Ule fact I r did not examine nil the books TIme The witness s also testified that in inference Terence ference with John Armour the tite latter ll r ion toward the contemplated con con- grull grand jury examInatIon Mr Mm lr directly tl contradicted the testimony given by Edward Swift and F. F S. S B Haywood laywood Ha office manager and J. J M. M Chaplin chief accountant for Swift Co 0 on the the points of having ha threatened threat threat- ened to use the die bureaus bureau's compulsive t powers Ct'S OW Ij Jn Sn obtaining th the Information desired Jl lie lee doc lared that he did not say ay that he would woul resort to legal proc process ss iff uy that tl tho ho o law gives 5 yon yoi 0 protection on in u-i anything to which you yot may testify t 5 |