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HOUSE MAY GET TRUST
MEASURE NEXT WEEK
Its Judiciary Committee Has
Practically Finished Work
on Clayton Bill.

wAsHINGroN. April 3o--rnlcss there Is
another change OF plan the Clayton bill,
ombodying the Administrations pro-
gramme OF antitrust legislation. will soon
be reported To the House, probably early
next week.
The House Judiciary Committee has
practically concluded its lahors on the
measure. The committee will give further
consideration to the question on Satur-
day II will probably order the bill re
ported after the regular meeting OF the
committee on Tuesday. just when the
bill will be t-Sen up for debate in the
House has not been determined
The chances are that upon the passage
of the naval bill preference Will be given
TO the bill proposing the creation of an
Interstate trade commission, with that
measure disposed of the House doubtless
will begin discussion of the Clayton bill
The House leaders are anxious To dispose
of these ANTITRUST bills at the earliest
practicable date In order that the Senate
committee ON Interstate Commerce may
begin con sideraton of the measures.
The impression stlll prevails among
House leaders that the antitrust bills
may be put over until tho December SEES
sion However. they intend 10 pass the
bills as requested by the President Mean
time the Senate committee Is considering
antitrust bills of its own
The CLAYTON bill as amended 10y thu
House represents the views az III" Admin
istration. That it viii b" amended lay the
senate committee seems to he taken fol
yrunted Whether or not the AdnnlNtla
tion will consent to changes remains t'
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New French Painters Are tn
represented. hut Pictures by
Germans Attract Attention.

lants rushing out into the starry night.
Decorative. fresh aud lively
''Flock of Goats IN the Alps, by
Jacques Rlch. Well composed. well
drawn and we'll chara ized
THE Building Of the House by Al
fred Withers small unpretending pic
ture. with little color but full OF feeling
and dramatic quality.
"A Modern Melpomene" by George W.
Lambert "A tall panel with n female figure
clad in classic puppies, posed against a
blue SKY. Carefully and interestingly
studied in the manner of Augustus Johns
and Legros.
silver and Green 10y Hilda Fearon.
one Of the houorably mentioned Two
little girls seated at table, whore eXtraor-
binary arrangements have been made for
their entertainment Bottles with straw
colorsd liquid and syphons are part of
II. The stll Nfe is well done In the w
Orpcu manner.
The Maiden 10y George Claus"n. well
drawn in a solid literal way, but the type
chosen 8. 50 attractive the picture be-
comes a success.
After the Meeting" by Cecilia Beaux.
j. distinctly un-Quakerlike. Her young
lady. VINO sits IN the foreground went to
meeting" in the very latest sort Of bon
net and a trock OF broad black aad white
stripes which Miss ii,auN has enjoyed
painting Not even Eold.ni could have
taken those stripes with NOR" noHcha
lance The hands ~ the Young lady are.
unfortunately number Fights
The honor of "A one man show has this
year been rendered To- the marine painter
Paul poughortv 81 New York, who ~.
h'hits tWeuty-sevcu 'anVas.s. He has
varied his walls with number of noun
J tain pictures done in his robust manner
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Richard Jack. Englishman. OBJ
tainS Second Place in
Pittsburg Show.

PIrrssuRG. April 3o.-The prize win
ners in this years International Art Show
at the Carnegie Institute were announced
at the Founders day exercises to-day
The HRS, prize. a gold medal and $500.
was awarded to Edward w Redtield for
his painting entitled The Village III
Winter"
The second prize. silver medal and
81 900. went to Richard Jack. an English
man. for "A picture called The String
Quartet" which he exhibited last year a,
the Royal Academy.
The third prize. a bronze medal and
$500. went to George Bellows for hts
painting. Cliff Dwellers."
The following were honorably men
toned: Hilda Fearon. for "A paintiu :;
entitled Green and Silver: VIII Ash
ton. for his painting ION the Seine"
Charles Rosen. for his ice Bound
Coast" Erich kips, for a landscape called
ITO Wander. to Wander Beatrice How.
for her picture Woman and Child" and
q. Spencer Watson. for painting Hid,
and Maggie
While the majority OF the Pittsbure
prizes go this year to Americans tn
chief honors for distinguished work &
abroad. Among the 3i2 pictures of the
exhibition are many interesting works b,
well known foreigners. such as the tw,
decorative panels by CASTOR La Touche
the large reclining Venus by Henri Caro-
pelvaillc. IA large decorative portrait b,
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G, W, MORSE AFTER
DUMMY DIRECTORS
Asks Receiver for Metropolitan
Steamship Company to Re-
cover Property.
NEW HAVEN DEAL CHARGED
Asserts Railroad Jugglcd Sound
Line Out Of Business TO
Kill Competition.

Activity of John L. Billiard. head Of the
financial transaction by which the control
OF the Metropolitan Steamship Company
OF New Jersey passed into the alleged
control of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford Railroad In 1910 was disclosed
yesterday In testimony taken here in the
suit brought in behalf OF Charles w.
Morse for the appointment of a receiver
for the Metropolitan company.
The suit seeks to compel tho present
dummy owners Of the majority stock of
the Metropolitan to restore to the com
pany property alleged TO have been dis
posed of In order TO remove the Metropolis
tan as a competitor in the passenger
traffic to Boston.
The suit is brought IN New Jersey in
the name OF Miss Jennie II. Morse. sister
of Charles W. Morse. and many witnesses =
/ have been examined here under u com
! mission issued by the Supreme Court Of
| New Jersey. Testimony was taken by
/ Nicholas w. Bindseil as commissioner OF
Tho New Jersey court in the rooms of
the New York County Lawyers Assoc
citation at l65 Broadway. and II has
! revealed that the owners OF all but 600
| Of the $4,000 shares of Metropolitan stock
| IL the Chilmark Company. corporation
! owning stock having a par value of 81
. 437.500. The directors OF the Chilmar'
/ Company have admitted that they We,
dummies. acting in the interest of law
yer alleged to be the New Ravens rep
fesentativc.
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ton is International That is its saving
grace Put even the academies into COM
petition with each other and extra in
tereSt results.
OF the foreign invaders France is not
in the ascendancy. None OF her new men
is represented. The charming panels Of
La Touche. already referred to, and the
paintings of lie Sedanier. Maufra and
Monet date from the past. The Germans
in consequence have an easy time at
tracing our attention.
Heinrich Brune's Picnic in the
Woods IL one OF the most attractive can
vases in the show. II is by no means n
great picture, such a. Manets "Fctc
Champetre" or the stu greater "Fete
Champetre' by Gorgione. but II is ex-
cellent in its own way nevertheless. The
two women and one man who are seated
upon the grass are robust, interesting
types Any one with half an eye for the
human comedy would keep II steadily
glued upon such "A group. were it poss bic
TO chance upon them in real life. The
colors are vivid and unexpected. the cos
tunes pleasing and the composition eff
fortress
In tho same gallery another picnic T.
going on. managed by W. q Won Glenn.
which is not 30 simple. He has painted
all sorts of eatahles into the picture and
clothed some Of the guests and unclothed
others all in the hope OF astonishing Us.
and doesn't succeed
Leo l'utz as painter IL even stronger
than Bruno. or At least more direct and
decorative. He has enjoyed seeing his
model from a new point Of view and has
painted the whole picture with interest
The lady of the picture Is a strong char
acter. strong as our Margaret Fuller say
and she Is clad in a costume of Margaret
Fuller's day. She wears big yellow
: hat and white gown showing against
great water. for the lady has just stepped
/ from "A rowboat
Some of the pictures that also stood on
were.
summer Night nv Franz Won Stuck
a sort OF bacchic revel, or at least an old
| time revel, with nynphs and rustic gal
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Aman-Jean. "A portrait by JACQUES Emile
Blanche. Heinrich Brune's Picnic in the
Woods" Leo Putz's The shore and
Grigori Bobrowsk's Portrait OF a
Woman"
Many of these were not in the competition
for honors. but some Of them We're. ani
II Is surprising that the last three did
not even obtain u mention. Many ot
the best American entries also were
marked "hors concours" by their authors.
such as William VI. Chase's Portrait ot
a Boy Robert Henri's Thomas in HIS
Red Coat and Cecilia BeauX's AFTER
the Meeting" Upon the whole. then.
as the prize winning pictures will not
attract much attention upon their merits
In this international assembly. 1t will be
inferred that they have been awarded
prizes of encouragement.
Mr.. Redfeld's Village In Winter Is a
large canvas. no better and no worse than
many others with which he has WI"
prizes Il is In the same color as usual.
the same brush strokes. and so slight n
variation in the subject that 1t is inn
possible for any but the closest students
of his style to tell whether they have
seen the picture before or not
Tho cliff Dwellers" ny George Bellows
has been seen IN New York and already
reviewed in THE SUN 1t IL "A confused
careless. weak attempt at satire Of
the street life i'm the tenement
section OF New York As bot!
Americans won their prizes easily. IL IS
come comfort To add that the same NAV
h said of the third member Of the trio
! the Englishman. Jack. His STRING
/ Quartette" is feeblv drawn and fcehly
| painted. II has no quality worthy OF
/ dis ,usslon.
} Once away from the prize takers ono
may cheer up, for there e. much to in
terest in this, the greatest internationa
art show OF America. It aims al IN,
academical, for its art juries are th'
same for the most part. as those tina
! sway des,nies IN New York. and even IN
/ foreign members of the jury are con
fessedly in sympathy with the art teach
| ings of a generate ton ago. BIt the exhibi
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MAHONEY HAS PARANOIA.
Mayors AssRiInnt VIII he Declared
Insane TO-dRy.

Michael L. Mahoncy. who shot Cor
poration Council Polk III the Jaw when
trying to Kill Mayor Mitchell. will he de-
clared insane to-day nv commissioners ap-
pointed to inquire into his mental con-
dition.
Dr John y. Crosby. Phoenix In
graham and j. Henry Hageerty. the
commissioners heard more testimony
yesterday. Dr. VI. =. Gregory Of Belle
wi" Hospital said Nahoney was suffering
with parauoi1 and s"uilc dementia Ma
honey probably will b" committed to
Mattpawau.
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vERONAL KILLS PHYSICIAN,
Dir. Nsscn hcimrr Had bcr" III
>cnr md Mas DcspOndrWt.

Dr. Edward Asscnhelmer. "A Years old
died Yesterday AZ the home of his father,
Dr. Augustus Assenhemer a, 323 East
Fifty first street, from Ncronal pulS"nlhe'
detective Barron reported that IN" phN .
stefan had taken the poison with suicidal
intent.
,cnr Cor rheumatism hN his father ANA
Mas dcspondrn, and had often threatened
to kill himself
-Four DAYS age hr received box at
v,ruuu tablets shortly attcrward the
hos WAS missing aud u" lhpstd mt" a
coma from which he did not recover
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architect ForRcts Transaction.

Mr., Folk questio toned him closely con-
cernlng the affairs of the latter COM
pary.
DO You know Of any irregular pay
m'niS made IN connection with New York
piers"
NO, sir replied the witness.
MI Taylor admitted writing the letter
s,snt1 by himself. addressed Ia President
N'llcn, dated January :. 1907, in the
course Of which he said:
Mckay suggests that his expenses
inward getting a pier in New York, $780,
"'" b" charged by ouintard Iron Works
's repairs on steamer"
Nj TAILOR admitted writing tho letter
'ut prof sscd to have forgotten all about
III" transaction and did not recall whethci
inc 'oG,o0U was eventually charged to the
non works as repairs on steamer, lie
s''d also that he did not know what
'h' e"G,uuu was intended for.
MI Folk asked him il he did not thnl,
mat that Mas an irregular payment and
" u AID not involve "A fails" entry. The
wines, said that he had completely for
gotten th' transaction.
You asked Mr. Mollrn il It was adj
SAID" to make . false entry IN yOui
o'lL'. d,d YOU not
To this the witness made no reply
Nr Taylor was president Of the Quin'
mrd Iron Works at the time Of tins trans
ss-'on
VINO is Nh" Mckay YOU refer TO II
tn ltter'' asked Mr. Folk
I"Hu II Mckay" rcpli"d tho w,tnC 81
nuN Nc Nas at that time genera
so 'or Nj Mcllcu."
N~ ra'lor sand he did not recall
f'r Nh M"ll'n ever replied 10 th'
l"'r pr rot II" said he had act,,
'".4JghouI Tor NJ, MeIlcn in connection
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SAYS FREIGHT CARRIERS
NEED MORE REVENUE
l.. ID. BrandciS Declares. How
ever. Horizontal Increase Is
Not Warranted.

V,.,,,.,,.,ro,. ,rru On r,.. a,,.,,o,,
''
" tue "'N""'' r''r cas-" VIII emu TO-
morrow afternoon, when tn" railroad at
torneys will make their final plea for an
i,crc,sc n, : NOR, ,,,,,, a, ,,,i,.n, r,,as
M.
'icF' - sUpnE leeilhs mere mat Inc
commission Will hand down decision by
MAY 10 or shortly thereafter II is sig
nihr,nt thar ,vary ,,,r,ber ~ the com
49,. -, -,
"'S''"' ""H "'''''"'" '"' "'s"'"'"'H '''S
week ana TINS 1t is understood is in order
that no time may be lost in the commits
sion getting together and yotin, nm IN.
-
Louis ~ hrahd'ls' representing TN"
commission. began his closing argument
this afternoon and will finish to-morrow
NJ I,,,,,,oi, h,,,.,,, hi. .,,,,,,,, .,,,
w., ~ '',' ~ -" '''9 ~ u'i'v"' WIZ
t.rcs, Ia, ,hn ,"nr,s,,,,,t,,s 80 ~, ,r
49, =, ~" ~ :, " Wv '"'
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JuggIed Purchase Checks.

Among the witnesses who testified yes
terday were James Mcneil. assistant
ca shier OF the Bank of the Manhattan
Company. and Lewis \. kcidel. assistant
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cashier Of tho National Bank OF Com.
,nerce The purpose of their examination
ny oonoNer rns.'sn VI cou,,se. 10. a',e
tred i'm the purchase OF the control OF
the Metropolitan steamship Company
The checks aggregated x31ss, 900,
McNe,, testified that on March s, 1910
an account was opened in the hank e
Manhattan nv the New England Securities
Comnanv which deposited s3ts6 900. lie
said ,he depositor was introduced by
John I. billiard and Mr.. Hemingway. :,
Ncw Unven banker who has b.,n idcnti.
ard win financial transactions for the
r,iiro,d comnany. The account was
,ai,an nersonnIIv nv Vicc.Jresident .J,v
70 49, ,,,,,L ~ N,nb,,,nn IN Tho same
a., ,h, acco,nt was rIns,d aud ho,b
70. ,,,oro ,,,c.d IN ,hc c,odIt or tina
,,..,..,,,,, s,a,r,s,,i, ro,nn,nv yhich
''''' -. ~.
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NEW HAVEN SECURITY SHRINKs.
Estimntrd Coiini"rW, \ni"" 80 FER
Cent. LESS Tha" C"mpRU,'s CiI"rr.

1t was pointed out yesterday that WIN
one exception. III" securities OF ~" cen.
tral New England Railway, the estimated
value as collateral Of the securities placed
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by the New Haven behind the notes sold
to the banking syndicate is far below the
value OF those securities as carried on the
books of the New Haven or OF the New
England Navigation Company,
The New England Navigation Company
book value for the securities placed as
collateral for the $50. 900, 600 notes of that
company totals $40. $50 600 while the es-
t!mated value OF the securities is $751;,
300. 900. difference of s33.j25,00O or
nearly 80 per cent. The estimated value
OF the collateral for the New Ravens
100000 one year per cent. notes is
S30,63l,0SJ. The estimated value given
TO the most important securities placed
behind these notes totals S1i,"1S.200, as
compared with q value on the New Iia-
ven's books of s2l.1l6,109 for the same
securities.
The following tabuaton shows the es-
tmated value as collateral and the valu-
alton ON New Haven books of the securi-
ties behind the $50, 900, 900 New England
Navigation notes
Connecticut co stock $40, 900 900 1000, coo
n T. inn and see * 5000 900 l35Oc, coo
PROV. 4 panielson x Sea o ooo
Eastern N s. $. corp. sec. 100000 100000
To,nl s97 500 600 S7OS25. O0C
The following tabulation shows the es-
timated value AS collateral of the i'm
purtant securities placed behind the 500
of the same securities on the New Haven
books:
Val
Est. New HAY
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Aldermen Oppose Right.

Mr. Taylor could not recall any of
the details OF how this money had been
used. He was under the impression that
Che expenditure was necessary in order
10 offset opposition by members of the
New York Board of Aldermen. lie re-
called that the late Patrick McCowan.
President OF the Board Of Aldermen. had
attacked the responsibility of the United
states Transportation Company. the New
Haven subsidiary which was seeking to
obtain the pier rights. Mr.. Taylor APP
psrently did not intend to reflect i'm any
way upon President MCGOWAN personally.
Frank :. Fowler. examiner of the COM
mission gave figures to show that while,
during ten years. the New Haven COM
pany had heavy floating Indebtedness
II paid dividends in some of these years
The commission gathered further facts
in regard TO the purchase by the New
Haven OF the Westminster and Port Chester
trolley. In the case of the latter IL was
shown that the New Haven paid to Will
lam c. Gotshan sl,os5,o00 for the sur
render OF his rights. while the assets of
the company amounted to about $1,000
In real estate
James T. Mcdonald. a contractor. testi-
fed he had received $4,000 for the
surrender OF his contract to construct
the Westches,er road. He acknowledged
on the stand that II he had suspected
that the New Haven road was back Of the
negotiations to acquire the Westchester
1t would have cost it Sl,500.o00 for the
contract
Diamond Jim Brady has been sum-
moned a. Il witness by the commission.
Ne listened To all the testimony In to-day :
iear.ue. The commission, 1t is intimated.
homes to be able to develop some interest
Ing Information from Mr.. Brady, possibly
relating To- the New York politicians.
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with the affairs of the United States
Transportation Company.
Mr.. Folk then showed him another let |
ter which he had written to Mr.. Mellen
under date of October 26. 1906. In this
letter Mr. Taylor said In part
Mckay called me on the telephone this
morning and said that he would need
early next week $4,000. which hc says
is about one-third of what will be re-
qured soon. He gave me no further par
ticulars, He asked me IL | would be
ready and offered, If would not be. to
furnish the amount required, but
thought 1t better to raise 1t myself which
I will do. awaiting the placing with you
the note you spoke of Wednesday last. |
think 1t would be well to have something
of some consequence In the bank for
credit"
Mr.. Taylor could not explain why he
had written this letter. He could not re-
call whether he had ever received a reply
to 1t. The only definite thing he knew
about II and the $4,000 matter. he said,
was that the money was necessary to on
set attacks by the Board of Alder
men. He said that the responsibility of
the United states Transportation Com
pany had been attacked as II was not
known that II was owned by the New
Haven.
Mr.. Taylor was asked why he had be-
come identif fled with the affairs of the
United States Transportation Company,
and he said he had done so at the request
of his friend MIR. Mellen.
Describes Fall River Work.
AT the request of Mr., Mellen, them
| you became II dummy In the United
States Transportation Company" asked
/ AIR, Folk.
! II am going to answer this in my own
way or not at ALL" said Mr. Taylor.
IAN right" said Mr.. FOLK, "go ahead"
"Mr. Mellen said to me one day. ex-
planned Mr. TAYLOR, that he had made
up his mind to have II cheap line out OF
Fail River to New York. and that ~ he
could not reduce rates ON his first class
I formed to take care OF this business out
of Fail River. Mr.. Mellen asked ne To
take care of the whole matter, and I'm
the United states Transportation COM
pany. ] had no financial interest in It
None of the officers or directors had any
thing wrong In it, and would do the SAINT
thing tomorrow.
Mr.. TAYLOR said that It took him from
about July ~, 1905, to July 1909, t.
90, IN, line in operation, and that or
account of the panic IN IN" latter Year 'h'
company went out of existence us afiair'
being taken over by Il subsidiary III th'
New Haven,
Mr.. Folk announced ms intention htt'l
the hearing to-day Of going very mucl
d,,p.r into the affairs of tn" mite,
states Transportation COMPANY
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James +. Mcdonald testified that he IL
a railroad contractor and civil engineer
and that he had been paid $4,000 by
the City and County Contract Company.
which took over the Westchester franchise
IN 1904, for the release of "A contract he
had for the construction of the Westches-
ter. This was paid 10 him, he said. some
tine during the summer OF 1906. He
added that he was stockholder In the
City and County Contract Company. He
never had done any actual construction
work.
"You surrendered contract then based
solely on hope for s37500O?" said Mr.,
Folk
NO, sir replied the witness, laughing.
y don't do business on hope"
Mr.. Mcdonald added that he had done
great deal of work to obtain the con-
tract. He said his negotiations were with
the company.
George II. Hanscl. Oakleigh Thornes
oookkceper was put on the stand by Mr..
FOLK and testified as TO receiving money
from J. p. Morgan & Co. In connection
with the Westchester deal. This, he said,
was placed TO Mr., Thornes personal ac-
count and checked out.
He said he had given TO Mr.. Thorne the
BOOKS showing the purpose for which dis
oursements were made, These are the
booHs Mr.. Thorne testified yesterday he
had destroyed
Stevenson Taylor OF New York, who
faid that he is a naval architect and u
marine engineer. testified that he had
acted for Mr.. Mellen in connection with
the affairs OF the Maine Steamship Com
pshy and also in connection with the af-
ialrs OF the United States Transportation
Company.
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Dividends. Despite Debts.

NJ. Fowler in his testimony said the
New haven had piled up a floating in
deD'edness Of sa3.375. 900 by June 80.
1919. although ten years before 1t had no
Indebtedness.
He said that in 1905. 1909. 1911 and
1872 the New Haven had not earned the
DIVIDENDS 1t paid. In 1908 alone. lie
said. the road ran behind s2,5l6.Ooo.
The total dividends paid in ten years
amounted TO SS9.0o0,00O. The bonded in
debtedness jumped during the decade
from SIS 1000. 900 to s2Oi,000,00o. but the
capital was Increased In the same period
from $1,000. 900 TO St3s, 100000.
Mr.. Fowler added that the books showed
tn, che loss 70 the New Haven on the
westchester road for the fiscal year which
ended June so, 1919 was Sl,i05,OOO.
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SEEKS LIGHT ON
PIER RIGHT DEAL
ronnsel Folk. In New Haven
Inquiry. Asks Regarding
$4,000 Expenditure.
WITNESS FORGETS DETAILS
Commissions Examiner Saws
Company Paid Dividends
While Indebtedness Grew.

wAsHiNGro.t. April 3o.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission. continuing its in
arry to-day into the financial affairs OF
the New Haven railroad under the for
mer management, sought In vain to learn
something Of the details of an expendi-
,ure Of $4,000 is connection with the OBJ
,sining Of a pier right In New York city
IN 1907.
This expenditure was charged on the
books OF the puirtard Iron Works as
repairs on a steamship. Tho only con-
nec,ion between the New Haven and the
ouin,ard Iron Works seems TO have been
hat Stevenson TAYLOR. then president OF
the latter. was a close friend of lrcsi-
dent Nellen of the y Nv Haven.
Mr.. TAYLOR testified to-day that John
u. Mckay general counsel TO- Mr. Mel
ien. had suggested that the item ne
charged by the iron works as repairs on "a
steamship.