The Daily Missoulian., 1914-07-21

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liam G. Rockefeller Bottom. Theo i.
dore NJ. Vail, George f, Baker, and
Howard Elliott, present head Of the
New Haven.
Washington, July 2o.-Civl suit to
separate the New York, New Haven A.
hartford Railroad company from It's
subsidiary rail, trolley and Steamship
| lines will be brought by ATTORNEY Cen
| eral McReynoIds in the Unified States
ulstrlct court at New York within the
next few days. A final effort TODAY
to settle the problem without litipa
ton ended in failure, although the at
torney general, Il. w. Gregory, special
assistant in charge of the case, and a
committee of New Haven directors
We're III conference many hours The
committee came to discuss the sale OF
the Boston & Main stock owned bv
the New Haven. 1t desired this sale
10 be made free Of conditions imposed
by the state of Massachusetts and
| said to have declared that an uncon-
dltlonal sale of the Boston q Maine
stock would insure q price $10,0oo,0o0
above what the New Haven might
otherwise hope to get.
The New Haven case will be laid
before President Wilson and tho cab
met tomorrow. Both civil and Grim
inal actions will be taken under tho
Sherman law and the whole case is
regarded by the department as the
most important undertaking in this
administration.
In the governments bill the New
Haven will be charged with being a
monopoly in control of New Englands -
transportation, and with being Ii com
bination in restraint of trade and in
violation of the Sherman law The de-
partment is expected to ask for more
than 1t hoped to get through its; agree
mont for the peaceful dissolution of
the system made with Chairman Ell
lott and New Haven attorneys last
March
1t was said tonight there will be at
least two features in the bill not in
eluded in the agreement. One will be
a request that the court separate the
New Haven from the old New England
railroad acquired many years ago,
which runs from Boston through
Willimantic, Hartford and Danbtry,
Conn., to IA point on the New York
Central about 80 miles from New
York.
The court also will be asked To di-
vorce the New Haven from It's So
called Sound steamship lines, which
ply Long Island sound, and run from
New York to most of the ports along
the lower New England coast. In the
ao ba ~,
tion of these lines was left to the in
terstate commerce commission. Fea-
lures of tho agreement which the bill
is expected to follow are:
That the New Haven be required
to divest itself of control of the Bos-
ton Il Maine railroad: that it give up
its holdings In the Connecticut, Rhode
Island trolley lines and the Berkshire
trolley lines and its minority interest
i'll the eastern steamship corporation
A request will be made probably that
until this minority interest is sold the
New Haven be restrained from exer-
cising any voting power on this east
ern steamship stock.
The agreement with the department
provided for the sale of New Haven's
stock of the Merchants & Miners
Transportation company. but the re-
cent sale to Baltimore trust com
pany removes this demand from the
governments bill There will be the
customary plea for an order requiring
the New Haven to dissolve and for u
mandate to prevent future combina-
ton of similar character
The stumbling block in the nego-
tiatianc has
of the Boston & Maine stock con-
trolled by the New Haven. It was
agreed by both parties months ago
that it should be sold Massachu-
sctts always possessed of the right to