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Show EM SET SD2WE CLAUSE IS- CHALLENGED Validity of Law Questioned by Attorney, Stopping Keney's Effort to Obtain Packers' Papers. FEDERAL COURT TO PASS ON LEGALITY Lawyers Clash at Hearing Before Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in Chicago. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. Further search for letters and documents in the vault of Henry Veoder, general counsel for Swift & Co., for use as evidence in the federal trade commission's investigation of the meat-packing industry was suspended today to-day while a legal battle was waged before be-fore Judas K. M. Landis in the United States district court to. determine the constitutionality of the search and seizure seiz-ure clause of the government espionage act, on which rests the future course of the government's inquiry. Attorney John J. Healy, representing Henry Veeder, forced an immediate hearing hear-ing on the validity of the search warrant issued under the espionage law by filing a formal motion to quash the writ and compel the government to return the letters let-ters and papers already taken from the Veeder vault. Under authority of the same clause in the espionage act, the government recently raided the various headquarters of the I. W. W. throughout the country. Thirteen legal objections to the validity of the search warrant were raised. Validity Is Attacked. The constitutionaJity of the clause was attacked on the ground that it violates the fourth and fifth sections of the constitution con-stitution of the United States; that the search warrant was issued without sufficient suf-ficient showing of probable cause that a felony had been committed, and that the papers and documents sought in the warrant war-rant were not particularly described as the law requires. The warnnt was further attacked on the ground that the search may result in the seizure of private, confidential and privileged communications between client and counsel which may compel the defendant de-fendant to be a witness against himEelf in a subsequent criminal proceeding, in violation of Ihe constitution of the United States, and that there is not pending in any court any charge of a crime against the defendant. Mr. Heney's Statement. Attorney Healy concluded his argument argu-ment before the adjournment of court. District Attorney Charles F. Clyne will present the gov ernment's side of the case tomorrow, after which it is expected Judge Landis will give his decision. Francis J. Heney, counsel for the federal fed-eral trade commission, in commenting on the legal points raised by Mr. Vecuer's attorney, said: "If this search warrant is not valid then every I. W. TV raid made by the government was illegal. The warrants in each case were practically Identical and issued under the same section of the federal espionage act. The attorneys for the government contend that the search warrant is valid, that the searches and reizures made under it were legal in every ev-ery way and that the section of the federal fed-eral espionage act attacked is constitutional." consti-tutional." "M" - -"M |