Show i I Mil MB IH MOODYS OPINION OlINN Regards Outcome of General Attorney f Case n ns of or rii Pit t I Importance Washington June 2 22 Upon Upon belna being a asked ld concerning tho time action acton of or Judge McPherson In iii his decision today Swift Morris and n against the lie 4 Armour moui al Cudahy packing companies the lie Burlington Bur ll lington railroad and amid Hl the tIme Individual de dc de and amI Thomas At At- General torney-General torney-Generl torney Moo Moody ly saul said The rue conspiracy was for Cor obtaining rebates on mm a lar largo o scale making discriminations dis ils- ils criminations to shippers highly In Injurious Injurious In- In jurious to the public welfare The he methods s used In concealing the tho true truo nature maturo of tho time transaction showed clearly clearl that lint the tho defendants ants wilfully knowingly an and deliberately sought to defy cC the law haw and amid were In gross contempt contempt con con- tempt of Its Is prohibitions After giving In lug ing It I careful consideration I concluded concluded con con- that lint tho lie extent of oC time the discriminations nations practiced showed that It i was a n aca ca case e where the lie sentence of Imprisonment Imprison imprison- ment was ns especially d desirable and anti I directed the district attorney ney to urge upon the court In case cae ot of conviction con the desirability of such a sentence I regard the lie outcome of or this ease case as of the first Importance The Time sentence of or Imprisonment Imposed for fOl the lie first time upon per persons ons gui guilty of ot r rebating will Wi In m my judgment have the most potent effect In checking the tho wl wide Ide widespread e- e spread practice of unlawful dl nations N Sentence of It I Is stated that thc tho s sentence n ence Q of Imprisonment Imprisonment Im mi- In these cases was malc made through the tho method put Into effect affect liy by He Go Attorney General Moody Il has always been of oC tho lie opinion that if ifa ifa ifa a person guilty uly of rebating could be lw imprisoned for l It I. I the practice would soon be broken UI up A As AM however the time J ElkIns law contained no provision IHo for for such sueh a sentence It I became necessary for Mr Moody loody In order to put Into effect this theol theory to find some sonic other means for doing so Upon an naton of or the authorities Mr 1 Moody oly requested that under tho the authority of the Supreme court In the he case easo of or Clune versus the United States a conspiracy to to commit crime against a the thc United Uniel States State I itself elf punishable only by fine might al also o be punished b by imprisonment He lie le directed d the thu United States attorney in each district distrct that In the event ent e of or obtaining a conviction con con- upon a charge of conspiracy of this kind to present to the tho court time the desirability of or inflicting the penalty of ot Imprisonment to the end that these unlawful practices which had received almost universal condemnation might be discouraged and prevented as fat far faras as that existing result laws would accomplish |