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Show HUGHES ATTACKS FEDERAL LAW USED AGAINST NEWBERR WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. The broad construction placed upon the corrupt practices aci by the federal court in Michigan in which Senator Truman H Newberry New-berry was convicted "Makes n a trap which would lake in every senator and representative In 'ingress todn." Charles D. Hughes, of counsel for Newberry declared today In opening at junient before the supreme court in tlie senator's appeal from hi. conviction on a charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to violate the corrupt practices act The construction lven by the presiding Judite was a "gross perversion of the statute" Mi Hughes declared, and he prom Ised to give the coui-t examples j "in abundance" to show the "eiioruiitv of this conviction" |