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Show KtJ FINDS PACKERS CONTROL PRICES lefferson City, Ian 18. Daniel Dillon, commissioner appointed by the supreme court of Missouri to take evidence In the suit filed by the attorney general to oust the alleged packers' combination from the state, I declared In the supreme couri todav that bo found th six companies num. ed In the proceedings q an agreement agree-ment to control prices But I do not think." the report adds, "that the evidence Is sufficient -j specific In regard to the volume of business done by others to warrant the finding that the combination constitutes con-stitutes a mouopoly." The six companies named in the proceedings are Swift, Armour and Morris, the N'atlonal Packing company, com-pany, the Hammond Packing company and the St Louis pressed Beet and Provision company. The commissioner made no recommendation recom-mendation as to whether the packers Bhall be ousted |