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Show 1 00 MEET PACKERS AREIH016HAHT CHICAGO, Dec 2S. Attorneys for the indicted meal packers, who aro uccused of having formed a trust In restraint of trade, lu tbo name of the National racking company, today appeared ap-peared before Judge Kohldaat In the I'nlted States circuit court and attacked attack-ed the government's dismissal jester-1 jester-1 day ol the dissolution suit in equity against the National. Attorney George T. Uuckingbani 1 tnld the court It wan the packers' position po-sition that the equity suit really was a supplemental bill to tin injunctional ! pnK'fdingi of seveiul years ago b- fore Judce Grosfcup and was in the . nature ol a contempt charge. . Assistant United Stut-s District At- torney James II. Wl keron denb d I that n prajer for contempt Judgment j was contained and Insisted on the right of the government to dismiss I the bill, flnce, he declared, no answer thereto bad been filed or Istme Joined. The government, he said, had paid the cots. Arguments will be he-aid by- Judge Kohlsa.it. Friday. lter .TuiK'o Carpenter In the district dis-trict court allowed the postponement ; until January 3 of the plea of the packers before him for a b-r to crlm-' crlm-' Inal proceedings until the suit In equity was disposed of. This will enable en-able "judge Kohlsaat in the court alow to M ttlo the question of the frovcmnient's right to dismiss Its dissolution dis-solution suit in equity. |