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Show ANSWER MADETQ WATSON Federal Trade Commis-mission Commis-mission Says Senators Sena-tors for Packers, WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 The fed eral trade commission. In a formal statrment today, asserted that 'he eharges made against the commission by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, Indi-ana, and Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois, were "part and parcel of the warfare of the Chicapo meat packers against the department of justice and the federal trade commission with tho purpose of servting justice." The commission said the good faith of Senator Watson's charges was onen to question when it was remembered that the senator was a "lobbyist" in 1909, and it charged that the smatir's relations with the Chicago pack' rs" were shown by certain cornpi-nd n which the commission had taken from the files of Wilson & Co. Declaring that the cnmralfs'on ;.nd its employes had lon;r been subjec'. to an attack 'that the public has never known about," the commission's statement state-ment said that while it was Invesigat-Ing Invesigat-Ing the meal packers the goverrme.n's representatives were trailed by detectives detec-tives and that the commission's offices were entered "surreptitiously.1 Declaring that the ijiargen of both Senators Watson and Sherman had made In detail, the commission declared de-clared it challenge, the proof. .Mid, with ihe proof their source and the means bv which thej were lo-mu'at ed." Reciting that some of the commit slon's agents had been summoned as witnesses in the case against the pack-eis pack-eis which the department ol jus 'ice soon is to present to. a federal grand Jury at Chicago, the commission askt d if it was a coincidence that the same men were assailed in Senator Watst n eharges that the commission was a hotbed of bolshevlsm, sedition and anarchy. |