The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-11-14
VANTTO KNOW WHY
GRAND TRUNK
OUT WORK
Attorney General to Start In
curry at Washington
PRESIDENTS STAND PAT
chamberlin says Tight Money and
MeUen says re Has Made No
Deal.

Boston, Nov 14.-New England re
mains much perturbed over the
abandonment of the Grand Trunk eX-
tension and the only reassuring news
from any source came from Washing
ton yesterday, saying that Attorney
General W.ckersham probably would
undertake an vg2iIy into the alleged
competit.CE-kiidns q al between the
New Haven ana tht Grand Trunk.
Coy. Tothier or Rhode island has
proposed that Massachusetts and his
own state-send their railroad commits
sions to Washington for conference
next week with President TAFT and
other officials Including the attorney
general Gov To.hier last night dele
gated AttorneyGenoral Herbert A,
Rice and William c. Bliss, chairman
of the Rhode Island public utilities
board, to so to New York today and
meet President Chcwberlin Of the
Grand Trunk railway The governor
said he desired a definite statement
from Mr. Chamberlin as TO whether
the present stoppage of work on The
Southern New England railway is to
be tempC.~ry or permanent.
The presidents of the two roads
main ta.n their or small positions. and
Charles ). NClloE (. tle New Haven
shifts the responsibility of informing
the public 10 inc shoulders CT L. j.
Chamberlin of the Grand Trs1l.. The
latter does not Iecede from his origi-
go. frs,f
arrangement pending between his
road and the New Haven, and that
New Enr'-nd is not to be discriminat
ed against in any case He admitted
that he did not favor parallel rail
road lines, but said tina, nothing less
than 25-year contract of the most
favorable sort would induce him to
run trains over the New Haven
tracks INTO Providence. u is said in
a dispatch from Washington that the
interstate commerce commission Of
ficials are satisfied that the discon-
tinuance OF the work on the projected
line involves an understanding be-
tween the Grand Trunk and the New
Haven and the department of justice
stands ready to act, If any violation
If the Sherman antitrust law is indi-
Gated. The state board of trade,
meeting In the Hotel Kimbal, passed
a resolution condemning the cessa-
ton of work on the new line and pro
testing against any agreement which
the two roads may have to restrain
railroad competition in the state
All construction work in the state
is being stopped by degrees, and &C
- l.
Probst engineer in ch rye, tonight
viii Sc the last steam shovel dies its
last lead Of dirt and rocks from the
cuts alorC the line 4 he men are
being paid of ON The job by the con
tractors and dism ssed in groups.
The towns along the line which were
planning to take some action against
the stoppage of work, have accom-
plished nothing as yet They have
all conciu "a that they wanted to do
somethin lat they could not decide
what
President Chambe- in yesterday ad-
mi'tcl thai his road contemplated
making some sort OF an arrangement
with the New Haven. He maintains
stoutly, however, that the only rea-
son for the cessation of work on the
G. I. extension could have given.
He said. Il never favor paralleiing
anybody else's lines If satisfactory
traction or trackage arrangements
can be made What negotiations we
have had thus far have not advanced
TO such a stage that | can say whet-
her or not the building of our pro-
posed line will become unnecessary.
IL fc lflra1sr - 8 l..
too much talk about il now il wi.
defeat the whole thing Nothing
short Of a 25-year agreement would
be satisfactory.
There is no truth whatever in the
statements that suspension of con-
struction work was influenced from
London under pressure of the Cana
dian government. II is no more true
that il was brought about or in
fiuenced under pressure Of Morgan or
Mellen Influences. In my opinion IL
the Balan war. which has influenced
the money tightness that has caused
this suspension Of construction. goes
on for the next two months, it will
close up every bit of construction
work in this country and probably in
the United States"
The following statement was is
sued by the New Haven railroad Of
fee at Boston yesterday: Mr..
Mellen has only to say, in connection
with the newspaper stories regarding
the relations Of the New Haven and
Grand Trunk, that he has known Mr..
Chamberlin for many years and does
not believe for one moment he (Mr.
Chamberlin) would make any state
ment regarding this OF any other mat
ter that was not strictly true. What
ever statement therefore, Mr.. Cham