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Show PACilEME ONCE MORE TUHuED DOWN - - Judge Carpenter Refuses to Hear Oral Arguments in Chicago Cases. CHICAGO, May 17, Judge Oeorga A. Oarpentar in Uia Tnltad Btataa dla-trict dla-trict court today rafnaad to- hear era! argument 'from attorn ey for the tn-dlrted tn-dlrted Chloa meat packer oa tbalr plea for rehearing en tha demurrer. Jadg Oarpeotar ovarrulod May IS. H gave them waek to fil brlaf a. . Th formal ajotioa filed J eeterday wat aot amplified la any . way ia view of Judge Carpenter ' ruling and nothing further ia tb way of outlining their cour. will ba presented by the packers until th brief, ara filed. udge Carpeatar, in fixing a tlra for th filing of brief. Indicate hia poai-tlon poai-tlon an th ruling of tha supreme court of th United Btatee that it la nowite affected tha penalty clauaea of the Sherman astl rrust act, but had to do only with what constituted a violation. Certain aettona Approved. ' "I disposed of that point in ma, opinion opin-ion on the demurrer," aaid' Judge Carpenter.' Car-penter.' " The supreme court must regard re-gard th Shermsa art aa a penal statute and if it does, then, by (riving relief aader the deantntr amotions, font and eevea, it aeeaaaarily enuat have approved ap-proved aaetioaa aae, two and three." "For- certain purpose' interjected Attoraey John 8. Miller, for th .packer, .pack-er, i i . "Thar can ba ao purpose, a I look at it," answered tha eourt, "ta section four or -seven, unless there can ba a 'violation of t hia act' to quota from tha earlier sections. That is the point I think which needs discussion." Claims f Meat Trait Lawyers. . Counsel for th packers, however, are prepared to argue, la their brief., that if it be aeeoesary for aome eourt of equity to determine, in each individual caaa and by tha merits aad peculiar circumstances surrounding each caaa, whether the restraint of trade ha been unreasonable or aot, thea the act doea aot provide the reetrainer with any mean of knowing, beforehand, whether what he ia doing ia unreaeoaable, as viewed by the eourt or not; that hence tha law is void, penal sections and all, not through a euprame eourt decisioa, but as a violation of the fifth and sixth amendmeate to tha federal eoastitutioa aad because it ia aaeertain. |