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Show P Add Nil PEOPLE ACTIVE Resort to Burning Papers j When Told They Would Be Investigated Chicago, Jan. 22. The Record-Herald today prints the following news article: Thousands of documents, some ot which, it is said, would prove packing concerns guilty of rebating, havo been burned by companies In the stockyards stock-yards district, since tho government started Us invesl igatlon Into tho affairs af-fairs of Morris & Co., according to word received by the United Statea , I district attorney. J There was quick action on the part of the authorities. Secrot service men were hurried to the stockyards to learn what employes had sorted the claims and burned the documents found in the files. It Is proposed to subpoenae them before the grand jury. The packers got word less than a week ago that the government's Investigation Investiga-tion was not to end with Morris &. Co.. and that there was to be an Inquiry In-quiry concerning supposed rebates in other concerns. Almost immediately, the office forces of certain concerns which the government contemplated investigating, got busy with old books and papers and there were several small bonfires. In spite of this attempt to block the investigation, the federal authorities are planning to proceed with the Inquiry. In-quiry. There still remain tho Hies of the railroad companies which are available for the use of the federal grand jury and which contain duplicates dupli-cates of much of the correspondence on the matter of damage claims. There is no fear that the railroad companies will burn their records, for such action ac-tion is forbidden by the law. J. Ogderv Armour ridiculed the id"a that any . packing house of standing would resort to destroying Its records because-' of -a--feaT - of prosecution, though he admitted he has heard a rumor ru-mor to the effect that there had been a few "fires" at the stockyards. |