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Show -00 . A MARGIN CLERK TESTIFIES IN CASE CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Dlvergent views of the use of the system of flB-uring flB-uring margins was brought out today in tho packers' trial by tho fifth dav'3 examination of Steinor O. Lauchor margin clerk in the Hammond & company plant of tho National packing pack-ing company at Chicago. The government attorneys presented present-ed figure in an effort to show that tho margin system played an mi)ort-ant mi)ort-ant 7arL In transactions of tbo alleged packers' combine. '"6 Counsel for tho defense interpreted I H the figures in Bupport of their con- tendon that tho margin had no con- H pectlon with tbo selling prlco. mM John Barton Payne, couneel for Ed- M ward Tllden, president of the National WM Packing company, rend voluminous M entries for tho company's sales ac- M count books ror 1907, 1908, 1909 and H 1910 in proof of the assertion that the M action of tho packers In not credit- , jng tho dressed beef account with tho H value of tho hides for a year nnd u H half In figuring tho test cost had not jM increased the cost of fresh meat In that period. jH |