Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-25
SUMMON THREE
DIRECTORS FOR
RAILROAD PROBE
Warner, Minot and Elton Will
Be Asked to Corroborate
Mellen.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Three
directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, in adj
ditlon to those already summoned,
have bees served with notices to
testify before the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which resumes its
invest gations into affairs Of the New
/ Haven Tomorrow tTheir Ianles, as
announced today, are Revere Warner,
Lawrence Minot and J. $ Elton
Mr.. Warner and Mr.. Minot served
on the board during part of the time
that Charles S. Mellen was president
of the New Haven, and Mr.. Elton is
still a director of the road.
\ representative of the commission
has been making an investigation in
New York for several days, with a
view to determining the physical con-
dition of William Rockefeller who,
the commission had been informed
was unable to appear at the hearing
H. NJ. Koehersperger, former vice
president of the New Haven, also is
reported to be i'll, and Samuel G..
Morehouse, whom the commission de-
sires to hear regarding transactions
between the Billiard Company and the
New Haven, is said to be still con-
fined to his bed at his home in Con-
necticut.
Some Directors Are Ready.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, George F..
Baker and George McCulloch Miller,
New Haven directors, and E. d. Rob-
bins, former counsel of the road 1t
Is stated, are ready to testify and 1t
is probable that when the inquiry is
continued Tuesday morning one of
these four will go on the stand.
Mr.. Folk, when asked what recon-
mendations We're likely to be made to
the Senate in the commissions report
at the conclusion of the investigation,
in the way of laws, said that would
be matter for the commission to de-
termine and that he could not dis
cuss possible suggestions.
1.-THE most important question be-
fore the people today" Mr.. Folk
added, sis to secure common honesty
! in the financial transactions of the
great railway systems of the nation.
Reforms always come through ex-
| posture of abuse The corruption and
| reckless profiigaey in the manage
ment of the New Haven have been
made plain, and. in the light of the
revelations, legislative remedies may
| be devised to prevent in the future
such plundering of the public under
the guise of corporate charters"
Morse Wants to Testify.
Charles w Morse expressed himself
last night at his summer home at Bay
Shore, N Y, as eager to take the
stand before the commission and re-
ply to the evidence of Mellen involv-
| ing Morses steamship dealings with
| the New Haven railroad and the part
played by President Roosevelt.
Morse wants to tell on the witness
stand all his transactions with the
New Haven Railway. He says II the
commission puts him on the stand he
will tell a somewhat different story
| from that of Mellen
! 'Mr. Mellen only told about half
J the truth" said Morse; what he con-
/ cealed would make stirring reading.
and / will tell it to the Interstate
Commerce Commission if it desires
me to.
"Mr. Mellen says President Roose-
Welt sided with him in the matter of
the New Haven holding TO its steam
ship property because Mr. Roosevelt
| did not want him to get control or
the stock. Now, I'll tell what Mr.
Mellen said to me about that II the
| commission wants me to-"