Ogden Sun | 1905-09-26 | Page 3 | Heavy Fines for Taking Rebates

packing company found guilty chicago sept 21 four official ot alio sch packing company of chicago fined an aggregate of by judge humphrey in the united states district court here today the fines followed a plea of guilty to indictments charging conspiracy to accept railroad bates rebates re the defendants were samuel weil ol 01 new york vice president 0 the company B S cusey traffic manager vance D and E todd assist ant traffic manager the fines carried with them a provision tha that t alio defendants be confined in jail until the fines were paid tha fines however were paid immediately mr max giving his check tor the total amount tho check after auly certified vas accepted as payment of tho fines and tho defendants then left the oun coun c room district attorney morrison Morr lson discussing the case after adjournment ot court said 1 am perfectly d with the matter as it stands the defendant came into court pleaded guilty and the court showed in its sentence th fine Is heavy but the im provision Is there the mot mo t important part of the law I 1 think it was a very fair consideration of the mattes it ans proven conclusively bv the government that after alio issuance the injunction by judge grosscup Groa scup the S company from the they were independent but in order to carry on their business in so strenuous a competition against ao other packers it seems it was necessary for them to accept rebates the results today only go to show that ali s government has now lodged an opening wedge into the question of reba tesi we have found a vay to proceed and it seems the proper one it seems to mo that the government is in a fair way 0 breaking up tha entire rebate evil in country from the books of ithe government it is shown asiat to take evidence against the four defendants and bring about their indictment the government spent the cases against armour co and others were continued until next wednesday