Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
ATTORNEY MOODY
SCORES PACKERS
"ESCAPE FROM TRIAL MEANS
CALAMITY
Attorneys for Defense Rebuked for
Attempting to Drag President
Roosevelt Into the
Case

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 20.-Attorney Cen
eral Moody spoke nearly all day in the
hearing of the immunity pleas ad-
vanced by the packers, concluding his
argument just in time to allow him to
take a train for Washington.
He declared that the pleas of the
packers were not we'll founded and that
they could not be entitled to immunity
because they had given their evidence
of their own free will and had not been
placed on oath, nor subjected to COM
pulsion Of any kind.
He at times grew very sarcastic in
his references to the statements of
the attorneys for the defendants who
had claimed that their clients could not
be punished because they had volun-
tarily given evidence to Commissioner
Garfield.
Late in the afternoon Mr.. Moody re-
ferred to the letter written by Pres
ident Roosevelt to the attorney general,
which was placed in the record of the
case by the attorneys for the packers.
He said:
Scores Attorneys
"It has been said here that the pres
ident wrote a letter referring to this
case. l am the last man in the world
to say that these gentlemen should
not give their best to their clients,
but if they felt it their duty to place
that letter in evidence when it touches
upon another subject against the man
in the White House who Is unable to
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feel it their duty to make their attack
upon him, have little more to say"
I'm justice to u.s." said Attorney Mil
Ter, 81 would like the attorney general
to explain how, since the letter was
made a public document by him, it
could be an attack upon the presi-
dent"
81 will allow my statement to stand
unqualified" retorted the attorney gen.
eral.
Guilty Seek Protection
Attorney General Moody then de-
clared that it was only those who had
committed acts without the law and
who feared the law who sought
to be protected by it.
docs the learned attorney general
forget that Mr.. Garfield told these de-
PENDANTS that he was here to investi-
gate violation of the injunctions is
sued against them restraining them
from acting in violation of the law
against restraint of trade?" asked
Attorney Hynes.
81 do not forget replied the attorney
general. 81 do not care. 1t goes to
show that these men were warned that
criminal action might be taken. If
they did not then seek the protection
of the law, having been warned. the
fault is their own, the responsibility
is theirs, and the results fall upon their
own heads"
In concluding his address Attorney
General Moody said:
Would Be a Calamity
eff on these propositions these de-
PENDANTS escape a trial it will be a
calamity to the government and for
these defendants.
Il hold for them that they are inno-
cent until they are proved to be guilty.
You, Judge Humphrey, alone of all the
eighty million people of this land, have
the solution of this question and leave
it with confidence to you"
Attorney Miller who had waived part
of the time allotted for his argument
to allow the attorney general to speak,
made brief reply to some of the ques-
tions asked by the attorney general.
Immediately after the conclusion of
his argument Attorney General Moody
left for Washington.