| Show of PACKERS FALSE corporations commissioner garfield makes sweeping denial says the only immunity he H ev promised any of the th chicago firms wf was protection of their condl figures figure chicago commissioner of corpor kitiona marceld took the baad tuesday in the packers packer s case and denia many ot of the statements road made by the th witnesses for the tb packers packer during thit tb hearing of the oase case now BOW in progress caward morris agdward swift ani and arthur meeker ra r ively of the packing firms of 0 nek nal eon don morris co co and armour co all testified that corn iniss loner garfield had told them that kits Is department had bad the power to com 1 I 1 information if they refused to give ti cel t willingly mr air garfield today on the stand de dared that he be had bad never made such a statement ile he also ajao denied that he be tad bad ever promised immunity to the packers baling that the only protection tion that had been promised was protection for the individual packers ox oi their confidential figures this ha said eald had been given them and at al though the average of these theae con confided conn fiden dei pal figures had bad been given la in the re corb of the commissioner on the beet beef inquiry had been respected und and their names had not been given ite he alo denied positively that he ha prorated that all Inform information informant att on be re garled jed an aa confidential confident lal he ha also denied that he had at any time said anything regarding an oath in connection with the mr garfield was tha first witness for the government the packers having rested their case shortly bf biffie foie the noon recess on court commissioner Commis gloner garfield told of bly hi coming to chicago and meeting the packers his account of the tha occur bences and conversations not dlf differing in any essential from those thos given by the witnesses tor for the packers he declared however that nir mr krauth off the tha attorney who had advised mr armur armour to allow the inspection of thel thela books and plants told him that ha would consider an inspection by a fed e era ral officer of the beet beef business rather an advantage than othera otherwise to the packers ile he declared that mr krautzoff Krau Kraut boff asked what would be done with the in formatin for maton matlon gevea by tb abo u packers and mas informed by the witness that it would be given to the president |
