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Show MOODY DENIES COPY , Of LETTER IN CASE CHICAGO, Feb; . Attorney-General Moody was today called upon by the attorneys at-torneys for the packers to admit the authenticity au-thenticity of a letter written to him by President Roosevelt In which It Is plainly stated that the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce were working work-ing together in the packers' cases, and with the permission of the President, or to produce the original of the document. The Attorney-General declared that he would admit the authenticity of the letter let-ter subject to Us verification by J. A. Krats, his private secretary. The Attorney-General read the letter, and then rose to his feet. "If it please the court." he said. "I feel it my duty upon reading this letter to say in regard to this sentence which It contains, con-tains, 'with my permission, the Department Depart-ment of Justice and the Department of Commerce and Labor,' is not correct." |