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Show BEEF TRUST TRIALS Government Is Ready, but Packers May Seek Delay. CHICAGO, Sept. -i. Packing firms and individuals connected with them were arraigned ar-raigned before Judge Otis Humphrey of Springfield in the United States District court here this morning on the charge of breaking the anti-trust lawe. Five corporations corpo-rations and nineteen Individuals are to plead to Indictments. Attorney-General Moody Is anxious to have the hearings taken up as promptly as possible, while tjic indications are that tho defense will make every effort to secure se-cure delay. "The Government is ready for trial," declared de-clared tho Attorney-General today, "and we will do everything possible to expedite the hearings. We have not been advised what action the packers Intend to take when arraigned, but we are prepared to meet them on any lysuo they may raise." Attorney John S. Miller, after a conference confer-ence of severnl hours with other attorneys attor-neys for the packing Interests, declared that nothing definite had been decided. |