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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, JUNE 21, IStlO. y I k MISSOURI WOULD OUSTMEATTRUST Proceedings Begun Against Five Big Packing Companies. CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED Attorney-General Asks Court to For feit Licenses of Offending Con cerns, and Exclude Them From State Fine Threatens. JEFFERSON' CITY, Mo.. June 20. Declaring that five big meat-packing companies have violated the anti-trust law and have been guilty of conspir acy to eontrol the prices of their com modities In the States of Missouri. Attorney-General Klllott "W. Major today began ouster proceedings against them by filing quo warranto informations In the Supreme Court. The five companies named in the proceedings are the Ar mour Packing Company, Morris & Com pany, Swift & Company, the Hammond Packing Company and the St. Louis Dressed Beef & Packing Company. The Attorney-General. In two peti tions, asks the court to forfeit the li censes of the offending companies, to exclude them from all corporate rights and to confiscate all of such portions of their property as the court may "deem proper, or In lieu, of that, to Impose a fine. Violations of the anti-trust law and conspiracy are the charges made against the Armour, Swift and Morris companies, while the Hammond and St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision companies are named as subsidiary con cerns of the National Packing Com pany, with conspiracy to control the business In Missouri. Armour, Swift and Morris are charged with having entered Into a conspiracy in 1909 to control the prices to be paid toy dealers In livestock, poultry, butter, eggs, dairy and agricultural products, to 'control the prices to be paid by whole sale and retail dealers for dressed meats and to control prices to be paid by all wholesale and retail dealers for poul try, butter, eggs, dairy and agricul tural products and by-products from the business of slaughtering livestock. Trust Formed, Is Charge. "These companies," the petition says, "entered into a trust to unlawfully regulate, fix and control prices at which dealers should sell and offer to cell to the consumer and others all dressed meats and eggs, poultry and other products and to control the prices to be paid for such articles when so regulated, and unlawfully to limit the trade In all products with a view to lessen, restrict, limit and destroy trade and full competition In the purchase and sale of meat products, poultry, but ter, and eggs. "That in pursuance of an unlawful trust the corporations have met and agreed ipon and fixed from week to week and day to day an agreed price paid and to fee paid by all persons for livestock and products which should be pur chased, sold, or offered for sale in Mis souri; that prices at which the prod ucts were to be sold 'were unlawfully fixed, by means of which competition In the purchase and sale of meat products has been lessened, restricted and de stroyed." The second count of the petition charges that the three packing com panies conspired to restrain trade and destroy competition in the purchase and sale of meat products, livestock, poul try, butter and eggs by fixing a price to be paid by all members of the al leged agreement and conspiring to con trol the business of buying, selling and dealing In packing-house products. Con tinuing the petition says: "Through these agreements, trade, commerce and competition in the pur chase and sale of packing-house prod-' ucts have been restrained and the com panies have obtained control of and monopolized to the exclusion of all oth ers the business of buying, selling and dealing In commodities and products of packing-houses." Unlawful Agreement Made. The alleged absorption of the Ham mond and St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Companies by the National Packing Company is said in the petition of the Attorney-General to have taken place in September, 1902. The Ham mond and the St. Louis companies are charged with having entered Into an unlawful agreement with others en gaged in meat packing for the purpose of restricting competition and prevent ing lawful trade. It is charged in the petition that the Rational Packing. Company obtained control of the Hammond and St. Louis companies, which had previously been . engaged in Missouri as legitimate com petitors, and that the National has ever since voted the stock of the companies, collected the dividends and used the companies in furtherance of the alleged unlawful trust. The Hammond and St. Louis com panies, through the National Pack ing Company, the Attorney-General charges, have become members of the alleged trust and have been guilty of abuse of privileges not granted to them by Missouri. Attorney-General Talks. Attorney-General Major, after he filea the suits, said: ' "The suits were filed as a result of the examination conducted recently before ex-Judge Daniel W. Dillon, who was named by the Supreme Court, to preside at the hearings. The Hammond Packing Company and the St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision Company are owned and controlled In every matter and detail both in the purchase of livestock and In the sale of dressed and finished products by the National Packing Company of New Jersey. "The National Packing Company, the hearing developed, is owned by three big pacKers. swtxi owns seven-nrteenths, Armour six-fifteenths and Morris two- fifteenths. While the National owns the supposedly independent corporations. It has been holding them out to the public as separate concerns and competitors in business. CURBING WRIT PROTESTED (Continued yrom First Page. ) before this controversy is settled, is a sane, practical conservation policy, un der reasonable regulation, permitting the development of our natural re sources in accordance with the natural laws of progress and industrial growth Senator Borah dwelt at considerable length upon the abuses that have been heaped upon homesteaders in recent years by special agents of the land of fice, showing how they had retarded rather than aided development, and how their maliciousness had tended ft drive intending settlers to Canada. He con tinued: ".cross the line in Canada the home stead law requires a. residence of three 1 years. The homesteader is also allowed j an absence of six months each year. If J nts new iarm rails him in crops or u ne is pressed in financial matters, as the settler often Is, he may have a portion of the year to secure himself from other sources. The laws are there administered upon the theory that every man Is inno cent until he is proven guilty. Here the land laws are administered upon the theory that every maifs guilty until he has proved himself Innocent. There are today 25.000,000 acres in the West unap propriated public lands, rich and fertile. It Is better land and in a better clime than across the line In Canada, yet it is known that thousands and thousands of homesteaders and settlers have been "for ih Inst three or four years crossing the line Into Canada seeking homes. Expatriation Is Preferred. "They are willing to suffer expatria tion .rather than try to .get homes under our system. What can you give us in return to compensate for the loss of in dustrious American citizens hungry for homes? In your blind, self-righteous cry, your Indlscriminatlng challenge to the honesty of all you have succeeded In doing what nothing else could do turned the face of the American citizen toward another flag. This exodus is a tribute to the miserable, expensive system of es pionage which was fastened upon us by Ill-formed and prejudiced administrative officers. "Mr. President, the West has her fight to make In the industrial world. She has to take care of Her people and furnish prosperity for those who come among us. Taxes must be raised to sustain county and state governments. With one-third of our state in a forest reserve, with our settlers being driven from our borders into a foreign land, with our power sites tied up, with the resources which belong to those who are willing to take hold of them and develop them taken from us, the outlook is not encouraging. If you say to us that conservation means the holding of those lands and power sites indefinitely with a view of securing per manently the highest possible revenue to the Government, we will oppose the pol icy to the end. If you say that conserva tion means nonuse, no development, as a matter of self-preservation we will have to oppose it. But if it means an honest effort to protect those resources to an economic and safe use by the people, free of extravagance and waste, we will Join you. We do not care how exacting you make the law to prevent extrav agance and waste and monopoly, nor do we care how harsh you make the execu tion of it. If you will distinguish between the guilty and the guiltless. But we senseless outcry against a whole com have grown weary of -this universal and munity." People Able to Care for Matter. "I do not accept the modern doctrine that these matters which Immediately concern the states in their material and local affairs-can be better admin istered by a bureau from Washington than by the people themselves in their respective states. Neither do I ap prove of the schemes so . persistently urged and presented In so many dif ferent, questionable ways to withdraw as far as possible these affairs from the people. It should not be the busi ness of Congress to devise by ques tionable methods, by strained, unnat ural constructions of the Constitution, some way to take from the people in the different states either the use or the administration of those things which are essentials local and which go to make up the wealth and indus trial supremacy of irw state. I do not believe, either, that the employe of the bureau, the offtefvr sent among us from Washington, is any more intelli gent, -any more competent or trustwor thy than the people who are at home in the states trying to make a living and build up prosperous communities. I believe, and I am going to continue to believe, that there is just as much wisdom, just as much public spirit among the mass of the people, and that they are just as capable of devis ing laws to protect the interests of their children and their children's chil dren as are the Federal officeholders. "The power sites are our wealth. We have the means to control them and to dedicate them to the use of the peo ple. They are a part of the state's heritage. It Is a violation of every principle of the Constitution to with hold them from our use. Mr. Presi dent, the development of these re sources, the protection of the interests of this and future generations in these resources, must be Intrusted to the wisdom and patriotism of the people In the states to whom they essentially belong. We have shown far more alertness, far more caution and versa tility in caring for these matters and making them serviceable to all the people than has the Congress of the United States. We have more reasons to .deal with them in great caution and with judgment, and we are doing so. The theory that these natural resources in a state belong to all the people in the United States is all right as a theory, tout in practice it is u.ierly untrue. These natural resources belong to all the people or the united states who come within the state and avail themselves Helpful Hints on Hair Health Scalp and Hair Troubles Gen erally Caused by . Carelessness. Dandruff is a contagious disease caused by a microbe which also pro duces baldness. Never use a comb or brush belonging to some one else. No matter how cleanly the owner may be, these articles may be infected with microbes,, which will infect your scalp. It is far easier to catch hair microbes than it Is to get rid of them, and a sin gle stroke of an infected comb or brush may well lead to baldness. Never try on anybody else's hat. Many a hat band is a resting place for microbes. If you happen to be troubled with dandruff, itching scalp, falling hair or baldness, we have a remedy which we believe will completely relieve these troubles. We are so sure of this that we offer it to you with the under standing that it will cost you nothing for the trial if it does not produce the results we claim. This remedy Is called Rexall "93" Hair Tonic. We honestly believe it to be the most scien tific remedy for scalp and hair troubles, and we know of nothing else that equals It, for effectiveness, because of the results it has produced in thousands of cases. Rexall ."93" Hair Tonic is devised to banish dandruff, restore natural color when its loss has been brought about by disease, and make the hair natur ally silky, soft and glossy. It does this because it stimulates the hair follicles, destroys the germ matter, and brings about a free, healthy circulation of blood, which nourishes the hair roots, causing them to tighten and grow new hair. We want everybody who has any trouble with hair or scalp to know that Rexall "93" Hair Tonic is the best hair tonic and restorative in existence, and no one should scoff at or doubt this statement until they have put our claims to a fair test, with the under standing that they pay us nothing for the remedy if it does not give full and complete satisfaction in every particu lar. Two sizes, 50 cents and $1.00. Re member, you can obtain Rexall Reme dies in Portland only at our store, Th Rexall Store. The Owl Drug Co., Inc Cor. 7th and, Washington Eta. " Cpyrigbt Hart SchaAUT tc Mir f Hart M chaffner Clothes & are all that's best in good wearables; you know what you're getting when you buy them; you pay less than they're really worth and get more value than in any other clothes; high quality, correct style, best of tailoring. $20, $22.50, $25, $27.50, $30, $35, $40 Manhattan Shirts $1.50 to $3.00 John B. Stetson Hats $4 to $10 The "Multnomah $3.00 Hats" "For style and quality lead them all" "Wunderhose" The guaranteed hose for men, women, and children, lT.oi. ? r: . $1.00 Baseball Suits Free With Each Boy's Suit Sam'l Rosenblatt & Go. Northwest Cor. Third and Morrison Sts. of them and to develop and utilize them. Our power Bites do not in any sense of the term belong to the people of New England or New York. They are there to be utilized by those who make them selves citizens of the state and join with others in trying to build up a com monwealth. It has never been the theory of our Government, and is not the true theory today, that these re sources should be utilized as a revenue producing proposition. They are to be utilized by all the people and for the benefit of all the people, but the people must come within the state in order to avail themselves of the use and benefit. "o Universal Rule Works. "Mr. President, conservation in order that it serve the masses of the people and benefit a. nation must have a rea sonable and practical application. You cannot apply a universal rule nor a universal theory to all the conditions which present themselves in the utiliza tion of our natural resources. You cannot apply the same law to our coal il mines as you do to our gold mines. lou cannot apply the same law to ou agricultural lands as you do .to our tim ber lands. You cannot promote con servation by treating our power sites, which to utilize is to conserve, as you do our coal beds, which to utilize Is to consume. ,Slr, as to our undevel oped natural resources, after you have adopted laws which prevent wastes ex travagance, and monopoly, laws which Insure as nearly as human ingenuity can do so, an economic and. bona fide use by. the people of these resources, you have gone about as far as H is the province or as It is practicable for the United States Government to go. I would add to this, however, that as to timber there should always be the encouragement and aid of reforesta tion. This Is something we can reproduce." One-sixth of all the dry wines of Cali fornia are produced by the Italian-Swiss Colony on their Immense vineyard at Astl. Their TIPO. red or white, is America's choicest table wine. MINISTER QUITS KLAMATH Rev. Mr. Vallandigham Resigns When Death Takes Entire Family. KLAMATH FALLS, June 20. (Spe cial.) Rev. William N. Vallandlgbam has resigned the pastorate of the First Christian Church of this city, and leaves today for Portland. There he will meet Major Piexotto, manager of the Columbia Park Club boys, of San Francisco, and may go Into work among the Toys of the country similar Yellowstone Park Excursion Saturday, July 9, 1910' (Leaving Portland at 10 P. M ) via the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. AND W5 Oregon Short Li Special Round Trip $ Rate from Portland 79.75 GOOD FOR RETURN UNTIL OCTOBER 31 Which includes rail transportation to and from Yellowstone Park; stage transportation through the Park; all meals and lodgings at Park hotels during the five days' tour. - - Grandest Scenic Trip in the World Embracing stops at the famous Park Hotels, seeing the Geysers,- Mountains, Lakes, Cataracts, Canyons, Buffalo, Elk, Bear and other animals in their wild state. INTERESTING SIDE TRIPS AT SMALL ElXPENSE Parties desiring to return via Salt Lake through California can do so for $29.00 additional, or $108.75 from Portland. THE FINEST EQUIPPED TRAIN IN THE WEST will be provided for this event, and will include Pulhnan Sleepers, Diner, Parlor Observation Car, and all the latest conveniences that go to make the trip pleasant and comfortable. Full details, with pamphlet descriptive of the trip, map of the Park, etc., can be obtained by writing to our City Ticket Agent, Third and Washington Streets, Portland, Oregon, or to Wm. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent to that which this organization does. Rev. Mr. Vallandigham has made many friend since coming to this city. He has had more than h's share of trouble within the past five months, losing his entire family by death wit h- In two months. Only a week previous to coming here he lost a boy of 3 years and he had not been here more than a week when his wife died. Then his 6-months-old baby was taken to San Francisco for treatment, and died there. Join the Thos. A. EdisonClub Have Music in the Home Pay Only a Dollar a Week Here's the greatest of all club plan offers one that puts within the reach of all one of these cdmplete Edison Phonograph Outfits; consisting of 1 large-size Edison Phonograph -with powerful single spring and improved motor plays both two and four-minute records. Large, new style horn. 6 two-minute and 6 four-minute records, 1 automatic record brush, 1 bottle oil and 1 oil ean. Cost Club Member $41.40 Pay $5.00 when you join and the outfit is sent home at once; then pay $1.00 weekly no interest. The Club Is Now Forming If you cannot visit the store, fill out the blank below and mail name and address to us today. Name... ... - Address GRAVES MUSIC CO. Factory distributors for Oregon. All makes of Talking Ma chines, Phonographs, Records and Supplies. Ill Fourth St., Between Washington and Stark. Important We are organizing a Columbia and Victor Club. Pay $5.00 -when you join and $1.00 per week. Call or write for particulars. To the Traveling Public The Oregon & Washington Railroad desires to announce to the traveling pub lic that its solid steel coaches have ar rived from the East and are now in use on all of its trains running between Taeoma, Portland and all Puget Sound points. . It is not necessary to go into an ex tended explanation of the great value of the solid steel coach; the public is al ready well informed on this important subject. Suffice it to sary that the solid steel coach will not telescope, burn or splinter. It is the acme of comfort and luxury. The Oregon & Washington Local, leav ing Portland at 8:30 A. M., the Shasta Limited, leaving at 3 Pi M. and the Ore gon & Washington Owl, leaving at 11 :45 P. M, all are equipped with solid steel coaches. When You Travel, Travel Right It's the Only Way. C. W. STINGER, City Ticket Agent. W. D. SKINNER, Gen. Passenger Agent.