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Show I DEFENSE CLOSED I IN U. S. STEEL I DISSOLUTION CASE I Jacob M. Dickinson Begin, Closing B Argument for the H Government H Philadelphia, Oct. 2S The defense today closed Its' side of tho case in tlio federal suit to dismember the 1 United Statu Steel corporation on H the ground that, it Is nn Illegal trust H and tho government began its Until H attack against tho big organization. V John U. Johnson of-1'Iilladclphia sum-H sum-H mcil up for the dotenso in a two hour LS speech that hold tho closo attention of tho court room and Jacob M . DJck-V DJck-V lnson, chief counsel for tho govern-HJ govern-HJ ment in tho case, began his urgu-H urgu-H ment In rebuttal. Ho hopes tp con; H elude by tomorrow evening. LB Mr. Johnson opened with tho gen H eral statement that tho weight of LB the evldenco In tho suit was all against tho government; that tho LV things complained of rested upon lm-H lm-H perfect statements and that when 1 tho government saw that its allogu- tlons had not been substantiated by LV tho ovldenco it. should havo withal with-al drawn the action. No one had been B harmed by tho organization of tho H steel corporation, ho said, bo far as B tho record showed, nor had any ono, M be be consumer or competitor, been H unfairly dealt with by the parent company or any of its subsidiaries. m In his peroration, Mr. Johnson said H the court is asked to cut up the H great organization into "miserable H fragments." He predicted another B war after tho present Huropenn con-B con-B diet is over, a war in which Qormauy H will battle for the commerce of the LVJ world and in which war tho steel H companies in the United States will H be as pigmies it tho United States H Steel corporation is disintegrated by H the courts. M Mr. Dickinson, before proceeding 1 to the Issues in tho case said tlicro VJ never was a great corporation H brought Into court for some violation H of the law that did not bide its head H in the claim that to strike it down H would be detrimental to the best In- H terests of the public. He disagreed H with Mr. Jobnson that the govern- S ment had not substantiated Its case Am and proceeded to point out what ho I VJ uei-laied lo bo tonclusUo proofs of I H instances ot the violation of the-antt H trust law. With infinite detail ho H produced testimony ot witnesses in H tho case tending to show that by tho H merging of competttivo companies LVJ tho steel corporation, lind unduly ie- H strained trado and competition. In H reply to a question of tho court, Mr. H Dickinson said that it tho steel cor- H poratton had done nothing unlawful H after tho organization tho govern- M ment still would havo prayed for the H dissolution of tho corporation on the H ground that its formation was 111c- |