Show I COMPELLED TO DENY HIS MASTER Attorney General Moody Called Upon to Admit Authority of the Roosevelt letter D c POINT OIN MADE BY PACKERS PRESIDENT AGAIN LEFT IN A AHOLE AHOLE AHOLE HOLE a Chicago Feb Fel 6 Attorney General Moody was today called upon by the attorneys for the packers to admit the authenticity of a letter written to him by President Roosevelt in which it is plainly stated that the department of justice and the department of com commerce commerce commerce merce were working together in the packers cases and with the permission of the president or to produce the original original original inal of the document The attorney general declared that he would admit the authenticity of the letter subject to its verification by J A Kratz his private secretary The let letter letter letter ter as produced in court by the attorneys attorneys attorneys for the packers was a copy of ot the original document as it appeared in a published account of the proceedings in inthe inthe inthe the United States senate The attorney general read the letter and end then rose to his feet Roosevelt Was Mistaken If it please the court he said I Iteal teal feel it my duty upon reading this let letter letter letter ter to say in regard to this sentence which it contains with my permission the department of justice and ana the department de department of commerce and labor is not correct All AIl the lawyers rose to their feet at atthe atthe atthe the words of the attorney general several sev several several eral of them addressing the court excitedly ex excitedly excitedly I 1 would like to finish said the at attorney attorney attorney torney general generalI I understand that the attorney gen general general general eral merely assented to the authenticity of nf the document said Judge Humph Humphrey rey Attorney Miller for the packers who made the request of the attorney gen general general general eral to admit the accuracy of the docu document document ment m nt did not introduce it in evidence but had it marked for identification The of C M r M Me Farlane was then resumed by District 4 Attorney Morrison orrison l The questioning was directed toward the subsidiary companies which It Is claimed by the government were the medium through which the control of prices on all by byproducts byproducts byproducts products was effected Mr McFarlane said that he had been present at a meeting of the directors of the Oppen Oppenheimer Oppenheimer f heimer company as a representative of one of the casing men of the Fairbank Canning company Did that man represent the Mor MorrI rises rI ses I dont know I been there for twenty years but I dont know l ow any anything anything anything thing about it The witness and th government agents examined the books of the Aetna Trading company and the Kenwood Renwood company but said that he knew very little about the operations of the sub subsidiary subs subsIdiary diary s companies At the conclusion of the cross examination the attorneys for the packers attempted to prove the accuracy of the books by McFarlane but met objections objections objections from the district attorney Darius E Knight chief clerk of the figuring department of the Fairbanks Canning anning company was vas called caned The greater part of his testimony was sim similar simBar similar ilar Bar to that of the preceding witness Mr McFarlane |