The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-14
NEW HAVEN PROBE RESUMES TODAY
 WITHOUT CHANGE
Commission Unanimously Decides to Make No AL teratiOns in Orig
 inal Plans

Washington, May 13.--"The hearing tn the, New Haven trouble will be re- sumed tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock without any change In our original plan. This decision is caneurred in unanimously by the commissions"
 This statement, authorized late to- 1 day by Commissioner McChord. closed a days spirited exchanges anu con- ferences between the department of justice and the interstate commerce commission concerning the status with Congress of Charles c. Mellen, former of the New Haven, in the commissions s investigation of the financial operations and relations of the New Haven and the Billiard company. It is expected that MT. Mellen will be called a wit ness tomorrow, and that he may be un- der examination for several days While he has testified heretofore, both before the commission in the Prouty investigation of the New England rail- road situation and before the Massa- chusetts public utilities commission, it is expected that Mir. Mellen may throw considerable additional light on the transactions now under inquiry In. Irivate letters. already produced in the pending investigations, MT. Mellen has said that he was tired of bearing the brunt of criticism in connection with the New Haven's transactions anu in dicated his desire to place the r@spon- sibility where 1t may belong.
 Witnesses Excused
 At a brief session of the hearing to- day. all witnesses except MT. Mellen. including Directors Lewis Cass Ledyard, William Rockefeller. George r. Baker and George Mcculloch Miller. were excused until Monday.
 Late today Chief Counsel Folk of the commission received certificates from physicians that MT. Rockefeller and MT. Miller were too i'll to appear at all as wit nesses. Mir. Rockefeller Is at Jekyl Island, Ga. The other directors have sig nified their willingness to appear when ever they may be wanted.
 The department of justice, through Att torney General McReynolds. entered an emphatic protest to the commission against the calling of MT. Mellen and directors of the New Haven as witnesses ir the pending inquiry The Attorney General pointed out that their testimony might render them immune from prose-
 
 wolud justify criminal proceedings, and 1t might also embarrass the department of justice in its efforts to effect a dis solution of the New Haven and the Bos- ton and Maine railroads, which is in pro- cess of consumination.
 At conference between officials of the company and the Attorney General today, it was said the latter did not indicate that he had In view any prosecution of officials of the New Haven
 It is understood the conference between Mir. McReynolds and the commission of ficials, together with Senator Norris of Nebraska, author of the resolution under which the commission is conducting it's investigation, was heated. Commissioner McChord and Senator Norris could see no reason for discontinuing the inquiry. which was being carried on to elicit in- formation on which ble legislation by Congress might be based.
 Later the subject was considered by the commission, and 1t was unanimously de- 'cided. as announced by Commissioner McChord t0 proceed with the investiga- tion along the original lines. The view expressed by the commission is that it ia far more important that all of the facts in the New Haven Billiard company should be developed with their probable value in framing leglslAtion to prevent a recurrence of such a situation than to make defendants in a possible court pro- ceeding of Mellen and those associated with him in the transactions under in- vestigation. <