The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-20
Attorney General Ac-
 cuses the Packers.
ARGUMENT FOR GOVERNMENT
Says His Appearance Before a JurY
 is Unusual.
Al the same Time, He Dseare. sss Earnesfness of the Government Is Such ms to Name His
 Presence Necessary.

Chicago, March f9.---Attorney Gen eral William IT. Moody commenced the closing arguments for the government today in the hearing of the immunity pleas advanced by the packers
 The court room was crowded to the doors with local attorneys anxious to hear the argument of the attorney general.
 In opening his argument he declared that the eyes of the whole people of the United States were directed to this court room in which the present. hearing is being held and asserted that the government of the United States is far too much in earnest In the pres ent case to pursue, as the attorneys for the packers have intimated it is pursuing, q senseless constructions of the law.
 He declared that if wrong had been committed the government WAS seek in gthe punishment not of a corpora ton. but Of the, living. breathing hu- man beings who committed tho wrong Tie government and people Of ths United States he declared, will be sat- ssefed with nothing less than that.
 He declared that his appearance at the bar of the court was unusual and almost unpredecented, but the law gave him the right to appear and after such deliberaticn he believed it 10 be his duty to appear.
 The justification for his action. he said, would be found not only In the importance of the present case. but tn the fact that if immunity be conferred upon tho defendants on the ground upon which it has been claimed, IT would overthrow the legal interpreta- tions of tie government for almost twenty years and would especially crip- pde the government in its attempts to enforce the laws of the land.
 Mir. Haynes for the packers couclud- ed his argument early in the afternoon session of the court and Attorney Gen erai Moody. commenced his address which is to be the fInai argument in
 The attorney general rose to mak, his argument shortly after Attcrues Miller, who represent Armour aElf l Company had concluded a brief arKu-
 ment on the import of two recant de- 1 cisions by the supreme court of the l United States
 subject touched by my learned brothers said the attorney general. | will say little because I care less, Taking up the subject matter Of hiB don It Is the claim of each one of those T speak under a deep sense of per- sonat feeling because of those prosecti- l tfons all over the country. Not I0nR
  ] furnished data concerning the ofter- l ing of rebates in the sugar refining business out of this charges have grown against the railroads and some others They are now being heard by I a grand jury and so l am not at liberty to say whether they are true or not.
 "Rebatea. it is charged, amounting to hundreds Of thousands of dollars, were given. The sugar men went to tho railroads and got a club with which they dubbed the farmer of this coun try into submission. so that the sugar | trust may take their property If the l contentious in this case are true, .AeEe railroads are then immune.
 These defendants seem to have a | strange aversion to the hearing of any
 evidence or any testimony on their | guilt. They plead that they are not | guilty, in answer to tho indictment l They do not say here that they are not guilty, but they do say, guilty or | not each of them has received a par 1 don. It s,the claim each one of these
 defendants separately that he is to
 have a pardon and upon each one Of
 them rests the burden of proof They cannot dump all of the evidence and all
 of their names Into a basket and then claim immunity for every one"