The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-22
PRESIDENT WILL SON ORDERS GOVERNMENT SUIT FILED
 AGAINST RAILROADS.
REFUSED A DISSOLUTION
On Terms Offered by the Government and Indictments Will Be Asked Against Officials and Some of the Ex-Officials.

Washington, July 21-The long con
 tinued effort to untangle the New
 Haven railroad without litigation ! came to al end tonight when Presi- | dent Wilson, in a letter to Attorney | General McReynolds, directed the in sttution of a sherman law suit to 1 dissolve the system and ordered that
 the criminal aspects of the case" be
 laid before federal grand jury.
 The presidents approval of the course mapped out by the department | of justice means that the civil suit
 will be filed against the New Haven in the United States court at New | York at once. The attorney general 1 immediately will direct United States
 District Attorney Marshall at New | York to summon a grand jury and the task of getting evidence before | that body on which to ask for crimi- nal indictments against officers and directors of the New Haven under the Mellen management will be be- gun as s0Cn as possible.
 How many indictments will be sought was not divulged tonight, but it was plainly indicated in correspond ence made public that the attorney general expects to ask for bill against Char es s Mellen, former president of the New Haven. The most significant fact in connection with the proceedings was said to be statement which Mir. McReynolds gave out several months ago when the interstate commerce commission began it's New Haven inquiry Fl that statement the attorney general warned the commission to consider whether immunity might be givAh certain men if made to testify as to their actions as directors Of the road. The names he mentioned were: Charles s. Mellen, William Rocke- feller George Maculloch Mil CT, Charles F. B1Fol1er, Edwin Miner. Lewis Cass Ledyard, George F. Ba- ker and Edward D. Robbins.
 In addition to directing suit, the president in his letter to Mir Mickey holds declared that the decision of the New Haven directors not to keep their agreement to dissolve peace fully had caused him the deepest surprise and regret" And that their failure upon so slight a preteXt" was "inexplicable and entirely without Justification" The departments course, he said, was just, reasonable and efficient and should have result. ed in avoiding suit.
 Accompanying the presidents let ter the department made public COT, respondence between the attorney attorney genera and President Hus- tis of the New Haven
 One of the most interesting phases of the correspondence was contained in the attorney generals letter to President Wilson, in which there is decided rebuke for the interstate commerce commission for it's action in subjoe1aing Mellen and perhaps others flagrantly culpable' with the possible result of embarrassing tho department by a claim of immunity in return for their testimony. In this connection the attorney general makes the statement that criminal prosecutions have always been ia mind and that there never has been the slightest hope that parties guilty of criminal violations of the law would escape"
 The letter from the attorney gen eral to President Hustis made it clear that the department takes the position that the New Haven drec- tors did not live up to their agree ment of last March for a peaceful their Boston and Maine stock under conditions imposed by Massachusetts and put the blame fer what may fol- | low on the heads of these directors. This was discussed today at the cabinet meeting and the department s course approved.
 The presidents letter to the attor-
 ney general follows in part.
 l T have your letter of today en- closing a copy of your letter of July
 9 to MT ]. H. GIustis, president of
 the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad Company, which to-