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Show ASKS FOR HIS J ACQUITTAL I Johnson's Attorney Ar- M gues Congress Has V Exceeded Powers. Washington Dec. 17. On the tM ground that the white slave act was M designed to prohibit trafficking in M women and not to forbid Immoral acts, 'M Benjamin C. Bachrach, attorney for M Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, to. ! day filed in the supreme court .i !l statement declaring that Johnson jIH should, be acquitted of the charge of H having violated the law. ' H The attorney further argued that ' H congress exceeded its powers in pass- t H ing the act as a regulation of Inter- ,vA state commerce becauso "a woman has j no market value"' and therefore docs H not come under the jurisdiction of tho H Interstate commerce regulations. H |