The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-16
.MELLEN AS
M0RGAN'S MAN
He Is Expected to Tell Of
Work with Poll
ticians
WILL STIR UP SOME
LIVE SECRETS
Exposure Will Include
Many New Men, Repub-
leans and Democrats

Washington, May 16.--When Charles
3. Meilen, former president Of the New
Haven Railroad company, resumes the
stand at the interstate commerce com
mission investigation next Tuesday he
will relate, under the sympathetic guild
ance of Chief Counsel Folk of the com
mission, how he, acting in most instances
for the directors of the New Haven, util-
lied the political powers of the Massa-
chusetts Democratic and Republican ma
chimes and of Tammany hall in New
York to obtain for the New Haven many
things that it felt it needed--things like
the New York, Westchester & Boston
railway charter, satisfactorily amended
A thorough exposure of how Mellen,
as the late J. p. Morgan's man and act
ing in the main under Morgan's orders,
exercised his official power has been
staged for presentation to the public
next week.
The Mellen testimony, as already in
dicated in these dispatches, has been
carefully gone over in advance by Mr..
Folk and Mr.. Mellen The latter's trip
to New England over Sunday--he left
Washington yesterdays for the sole
purpose of procuring papers which win
bear out his statements, past and future,
and will enlarge, with a mass of human
interest detail, very important phases of
the hitherto unwritten and secret history
of the New Haven railroad system, its
financial and political affiliations
Pressed by the newspaper men yester-
day for specific indications as to Mr..
Mellen's testimony, Chief Counsel Folk,
while apparently willing to oblige, re-
fused to do more than hint at the above
as the outcome OF next weeks hearings
you may predict anything you like"
he said, "and it will probably be correct"
That the man behind it ALL and dom
mating II all, was J. P. Morgan, and
that Mellen, who accepted the presidency
of the New Haven road at Mr. Morgan's
request without even asking what his
salary was to be, these, in the view of
the commission, are the central facts in
the New Haven investigation, and will
be emphasized as such throughout the
hearings.
Below Mr.. Mellen, It will be shown,
were a host of contractors, promoters,
politicians, dummy directors, financial
men. both genuine and spurious; public
officials, and great corporations. The
testimony, which will undoubtedly &C.
cupy most of next week, will bristle
with personalities, and for the first time
will publicly bring into the New Haven
case the names of lot of men unknown
hitherto. That number of men are
on the anxious seat as a result is no Sc
eret here.
In short, Mr. Mellen, by and with the
consent and help of the interstate COM
merce commission. has prepared a full
and complete confession" of his own ac
tivities and of the activities about which
he has first hand information during the
period of his presidency of the New Ha-
ven railroad.
Mr.. Folk conferred yesterday with
President Miller of the New York, West
chester & Boston railroad, the electric
line acquired by the New Haven through
the methods detailed Thursday by Mr..
Mellen. It is the desire of the commits
sion to obtain a list of the stockholders
of the Westchester road at the time of
its acquisition by the New Haven, with
a view to obtaining testimony directly
from at least some of them concerning
their dealings with Mr.. Mellen and with
the late Thomas +. Byrnes. former head
of the New York police force.
The subpnnaed directors of the New
Rockefeller, Lewis Cass
Ledyard. George r. Baker, and George
Miller--have been directed TO
hold themselves in readiness next Tues
day to be examined. 1t is regarded as
unlikely that either Mr.. Rockefeller or
MIR. Miller, both of whom have presented
to the commission certificates of illness
through their physicians, viii appear.
No conclusion has been reached by the
as to whether dispositions
shall be taken from them at their pres
emit places of residence.
Mr.. Rockefeller is at Jekyl Island, Ga,
unable, according to the certificate of his
physician, to speak above whisper.
Mr.. Miller is confined to his home and
is said to be wholly unable to transact