The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
M REY NOLDS IS
 SUSPICIOUS OF ], LATEST ALARM
Scents Organized Attempt to Disrupt New Haven
 Dissolution.
TELLS OF ORGANIZED
 NEW ENGLAND CAMPAIGN
Personnel of Trustees is Be- fore Conferees at Today's
 Meeting.

New York. March zo-Iames c. McReyno1ds, Attorney General sus- poets that there is an organized cam paign in New England to disrupt the
 dissolution proceedings between the Department of Justice and the off cials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He asserted today that serious misrepresentation are being made in apparent effort
 to arouse sentiment against the gov
 ernment in the case.
 MT. McReyno1ds based his opinion on information received from various
 sections of the territory in which the stock of the New Haven Railroad and it's subsidiary steam, trolley and ship lines is held. He said the campaign is causing unwarranted alarm among the stockholders.
 He denied emphatically that the De- partment of Justice is seeking to work a hardship in any way on the railroad or it's Stockholders. He said the proceedings between the officials of the system and the department are progressing to the entire satisfaction of both parties, and that an early agreement along the lines of the ori- ginal draft may be expected.
 VITAL POINTS INVOLVED There are, he said. several vital points that will have to be cleared up before the dissolution can be work ed out as desired. The greatest of these is in regard to the disposition of the stock of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Additional legislation by the State of Massachusetts will be necessary to Iega1ize the sale.
 MT. McReynolds said that efforts are to be made immediately to obtain this legislation by which the inter woven ownership of the Boston and Maine stock may be untangied. The securities are now held by holding company, in turn financed by the New Haxen-a 4--szs4s-ss-s The dissuation problem Is proving to be exceedingly perplexing for the roads officials, according to MT. Me- Reynolds. due to the manipulation of 1 the. last twenty years in which the securities were transferred many times.
 OFFICERS DOING THEIR BESTvs He declared there is no evidence that the officials now taking part in the negotiations are responsible for 1 the "campaign of transformation as l they seem to be doing the best they can to conform to the demands of the l government.
 l One of the points Mr. McReynolds cited as evidence of the campaign was recently printed statements that the Department of Justice made a l new demand on the New Haven to l give up it's wharf properties This l he termed absurd, as the wharfs are essentially part of the ship line prop critics, which are to be passed upon by the Interstate Commerce Conmis- sion under the PanaInn Canal Act.
 DECIDE ON TRUSTEES.
 I The personnel of the boards of tr1,s tees for the Connecticut and Rhode l Island trolley lines owned by the New 1 Haven system was taken LID today by l attorneys for the department of jus tice and counsel for the railroad il
 the hope that settlement of that fea, ture of the dissolution plan will leaS to a speedy agreement on every poin involved.
 l Personal Investigation of a list O.
 men suggested for the boards by rep resentatives of the department led t,
 the understanding today that pros
 poets for an agreement were bright
 Both the department and the New Ha
 ven officials are known to be eager fo
 an early announcement of a comp1et
 agreement and it was the hope of of
 fcials that settlement would b.
 reached before tomorrow night With the trolley trusteeships ou of the way about only one other i'm portant point left is the length of tern of the-trustees who are to take owe the Boston 6 Maine Rai1road stool owned by the New Haven. It wa kpredicted at the department toda, that this feature will be settled by : compromise under which the trustee shall serve two and one-ha1f year with provision for an extension of tn term by federal court.
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