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Show SMINIS OF PUCKFJS FALSE Corporations Commissioner Garfield Makes Sweeping Sweep-ing Denial. Oayt the Only Immunity He Evti Promised Any of the Chicago Firms Wae Protection of Their Confl-Uentlal Confl-Uentlal Figures. Chicago. Commissioners of Corporations Corpor-ations Garfield took tho stand Tuesday Tues-day In tho packer's enro nnd denied many of tho statements made by the witnesses fur tho packers during the hearing of the case now In progress. Edward Morris, Edward Swift nnd Arthur Meeker, representatives respectively re-spectively of tho packing firms of Nel son Morris & Co., Swlfth & Co., and Armour & Co., all testified that Com tnlssloner Garfield had told them thnt his department had the power to com-hoi com-hoi Information If they refused to give' lit willingly. Mr. Oarfleld today on the stand declared de-clared that he hnd never mado such a statement. Ho also denied that ho had over promised Immunity to tho packers, saying that the only protection protec-tion that had been promised waa protection pro-tection for tho individual packers ox their confidential figures. This, h said, had been given them, and at though tho avorago of these confldon. Mai flguros had been given in tho report re-port of4tho commissioner on the beef inquiry, Individuals had been rospected. nnd their namos had" not beon glvon. Ho also denied positively that ho promised that all Information would bo regarded as confidential. Ho also denied that ho had at nny tlmo said anything regarding an oath In connection connec-tion with tho Inquiry. Mr. Garfield was the first witness for tho government, govern-ment, tho packers having rested their cbbo shortly beforo the noon recess ou court. Commissioner Garfield told of his coming to Chicago and mooting tho packers, his account of tho occurrences occur-rences and conversations not differing! in any ossontlal from those given by tho witnesses for tho packers. Ho declared, however, that Mr. Krauth-' off, tho attornoy who had advised Mr. Armour to allow tho Inspection of thelf1 books and plants, told' him that hd would consider an Inspection by a fed-' oral offlcer of the boof business rather an advantago than otherwise to tho packers. He doclarod that Mr. Krauthoff asked what would bo dono with the Information In-formation glvon by tho packers, and was Informed by tho witness that it would bo glvon to tho president. |