The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-09
AFTER MELLEN TO TESTIFY IN
 WASHINGTON
Rep. O'Shaunessy Would Vel come New Haven Road at Congressional Probe Railroad President Will Also Have Chance to Lock Horns With Louis D. Brandeis

Washington, Dec. Swallowing a conference, today, of the New England congressional delegation on the O'Shaunessy bill creating a special committee of seven to investigate the
 Grand Trunk-New Haven Railroad
 traffic merger, it was announced that l Louis D. Brande1s, the Boston attor-
 ney, would be employed as counsel for
 tn committee if such an investigation
 were ordered
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island
 members insisted that the hearings of
 the proposed committee be held in
 New York, Boston and Providence, and 1t was agreed that this will be done. If
 the probe is authorized.
 The clause of the bill creating a
 special committee was unanimously
 approved because it would make pos sible immediate action -by the House: Representative O'Shaunessy, of Rhode Island, who introduced the res olution for a probe, declared, today, that President Mel1en would be wei investiga ton which might be ordered, despite the fact that the government
 prosecutors at New York were con the grand jury, if permitted, could grant him immunity.
 New York Dec. 9-Whether PreSi- dent Mellen. of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, will be permitted to appear before the federal
 grand jury and tell what he knows | that system and the Grand Trunk, af- ter he had first waived immunity. must be decided by Attorney General Wickersham himself. When the grand jury continued its probe, today, to de- termine whether the proposed agree ment is in unlawful restraint of trade, Mellen'S- letter demanding that he be
 permitted to explain the deal and of fering to waive immunity, was read. It was then decided that the question was so important that rhe head of the department of justice in person should decide and the letter was forwarded to Washington.
 On the answer will depend Wnetner Mellen shall testify.
 President Chamberlain, of the Grand Trunk, arrived here, today Whether he also is to testify IS known only to himself and the agents of the department. At the Waldorf, he posi- lively refused to say why he was in New York or whether he had follow ed Mellen's example and asked to be permitted to explain the proposed agreement from his point of view.
 @tI am in New York but can make no statement at this time regarding the reason for my visit" was his reply to all questions put to him. It was believed, however that he came here to testify and, like Me1len, had agreed to waive immunity. In Canada, he
 was immune from Subpoena and his mere presence here was construed to mean that he would like to teSt1fy. Most of today's session of the grand jury probe was devoted to examina- tion of directors of the New Haven road.
 Frederick J. Mcleod, chairman of the public utilities commission of Massachusetts and D. E. Campbell.
 vice president and head of the traffic department of the New Haven road,
 were witnesses before the grand jury,
 this afternoon. It was learned that
 Arthur E. Clark, secretary of the New
 Haven road, had been subpoenaed to
 testify tomorrow.