The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-21
WICKERSHAM
 MAY ENJ0IN
 NEW HAVEN Abandonment of Grand Jury Proceedings
 Explained Feared Morgan, mellen ct Al. Might Receive immunity
 if Called to Testify
United Press Dispatch.|

Washington, Nov. 2fLTo enjoin con summation of the proposed traffic agreement between the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford, and the Grand Trunk railroads in Massachu- sets was the new plan tentatively formulated today by the Department of Justice to thwart a railroad rnonop- oiy in New England. A special agent of the department was sent today to New York to inspect papers and letter files of the two railroads including 2 len, of the New Haven road, and President Chamberlain, of the Grand Trunk
 If evidence secured by the special it was understood here the injunction suit will be filed instantly. This agreement has been presented by the New Haven road but has not been ac- ceptance, it was believed, would be the signal for the filing of the in- Junction proceedings.
 probe in New York, started by Dis trict Attorney Wise, and at which it was reported J. P Morgan would be pended, was explained today by Jus tice Adkins, special assistant to the attorney general in charge of the in- vestigation.
 
 tify before the Grand Jury we could get all of the facts, no doubt, but those who testify would then be fm- muue from prosecution he said sswe are making the Investigation with all speed and thoroughneSs-propo to get the information without giving Immunity to anyone Of those involved . Atkins rafasssa fiatas to seurlis.e the proposed course of prosecution 2 azhe ts E sxpssss g e,.rs.sss and Hons Houid re cr1nlfnai or sfvsI Eia also declinsll for obvious reasona. to give the names of the departnes1t's pr1vate inFestfgators or the plan of. invest iga ton.
 But it was known that the iniunc- lion suit was the weapon which the depa rtEneHt is holding in reserve.@
 We will have access to all core spondence in the railroad offices,r Ad- kius said. This has been offered by Presidents Mellen. and ss rnberIain and accepted by the departnent.'s
 Vigorous denial was made by de- rartment officials that instructions to stop the Grand Jury proceedings in. phone eutreasties from T. E Pierposat Morgan, William Rockefeller or other Wall street heads slIbpoenaed as wit nesses. Adkins admitted, however that sIbpoenaes for many money bar ons and railroad chieftains in New York had been prepared when the Grand Jury vas halted
 
 1ieved a special investigation by our own agents would give better results and qlIicker-than the slow, tedious process before the Grand Jury with it's possible chance of giving immunity to- those against whom proceedings might be brought said Adkins Il
 Although the Grarli Trunk is a Ca nadian cerporatlsra Adkins said the Sherman law could be invoked against 1t just as if it were an American com pany. By operating in New England the Grand Trunk is made amenab1e to it's. laws 4s:5...z s.sss7s
 Receipts of copy of the traffic agreement exchanged between Mellep and Cham beriain could not be con firnled at the department It. was stated by @ high official. however, that clear case. of conspiracy to Ee- strain trade would be made out pro- vided the agreement includes an offer by the New Haven road to reimburse the Grand Trunk for expenses in be- ginning construed: of it's new lines now abandoned. from White River Junction, Vermont, to Providence, R. I. Conferences were held today be- tween Attorney Adkins and railroad commissioners of Rhode Island and New Hampshire sent1bya Gov. Pothier Of Rhode Island. It was stated that the New England officials, upon be- ing appraised today of the departments plans made no objections and express