The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-16
Lawyer Bailey Says Boston
Bar Considers Him
Untrustworthy
WINSLOW APPEARS
IN INVESTIGATION
Mellen Has No Facts That
Will Substantiate Bar
ron's Charges

| Washington, d. G., Feb, l6.-Louis ID
Brandeis of Boston, President Wilson,
nominee for the supreme court bench
was attacked yesterday before the Sen
ate subcommittee investigating the
qualifications, by Samuel W. Winslow
president OF the United Shoe Machinery
company, of which MIR. Brandeis was for
merly director and counsel and by Hol-
lis r. Bailey, Boston attorney with
whom Mr.. Brandeis had been associated
years ago in litigation over an estate.
Mr.. Winslow charged that Mr.. Bran
deis had been guilty of unprofessional
conduct in that, after leaving the shoe
machinery company, he had used knowl-
edge gained through his association with
it to attack as Illegal and criminal the
very acts and system OF business which
he assisted to create and which he adj
vsed was legal"
Mr. Bailey charged that Mr.. Brandeis,
representing at the same time the lessees
and lessons of the Warren Paper mills
and involving a S2l 100000 estate, had
been guilty of acts which favored one
of the interests against the other.
The possibility of extending the in
quiry into New Haven railroad affairs by
testimony Of Charles ). Mellen, former
president of the road, was virtually
passed over on receipt of a telegram from
Mr.. Mellen, saying he had no evidence on
Clarence W. Barrons charge that Mr..
Brandes had helped an attempt to
wreck the New Haven road The COM
mittee may consider whether to call Mr..
Mellen later and made some further in
quiries of him.
When the hearing on the nomination
was resumed yesterday Senator Walsh
read this telegram from Mr.. Mellen:
Il have no information OF any char
acter that would be OF value to the sub
committee on the Branedis nomination.
| have no papers that have any bear
ing on the case. Under these cireum
stances may ] not be excused from at
tending?"
Senator Walsh said that in the alb
senee of Chairman Chiffon he wired Mr..
Melen:
Mr. Barron, testifying before judi
ciarv committee Thursday, asserted you
could testify to facts establishing the
charge that Brandeis was employed to
wreck the New Haven road. Having in
mind your telegram Of to-day, please
wire whether YOU can give committee |
my information that will shed light on |
ruth or falsity of the charge.
To that Senator Walsh received an
,ther message from Mr.. Mellen reiterat-
NC that he had no information what
,ver on the subject.
After some discussion yesterday, the I
decided to leave open the ques-
ion whether Mr. Mellen should be sub
,oenaed.
Senator Clark said he had supposed 1
ir. Brandeis was quite familiar with af-
airs Of the New Haven road and also
hat he had read statements from Mr..
delen "assaling Mr.. Brandeis in mos,
,iolent terms, so violent that | did not
ee how they could be true"
S. W. Winslow. president OF the Unit
d States Shoe Machinery company was
allied as the first witness, but yielded
o Hollis r. Bailey Boston attorney, who
ave testimony relative to Mr.. Brandeis'
with the so-called Warren will
ase, alleging a breach Of trust.
Mr. Bailey thought that as counsel for
II parties interested in the Warren es
ate, Mr.. Brandeis had brought about an
arrangement, particularly in the manage