Show RAILROAD PRESIDENT DISCUSSES QUESTION OF CORPORATE CONTROL Hartford rt ford Conn COn fl March M arch 30 Oharles I S Mellon Mellen lIcu president of the New N w York New Ne Hav n Hartford railroad ap imp appeared today tod before the th committee on railroads of th the Connecticut general ral as assembly assembly to advocate certain proposed amendments to the charter of or the Con Consolidated Railway company the hold holding holding ing lag corporation of or miles of trolley lines owned by the New York NewHaven NewHaven New Haven Havn Hartford Hurtford company During I the course cour e of ot his argument Mr 11 Mellon Mehlen n discussed the question of corporate control saying In pert part ort The UThe demand which has ha resulted for fora a strict of railroads in the Interest of or the public welfare is iR the th issue of the hour It is right it should 1 be bi had There have grown up great t abuses without doubt and it l h is time th they v WT wr laid harp hare and stopped I J A great Privileges 1 from front the public It performs a public service it imposes a tax which should hould be 1 alike to all who use Ufe It H and if it cannot handle han l itself It elf without discriminating mating between persons pf and places and an 1 treat all alike fairly it is time for the public which created r it to supervise it and control it when it has shown ft it cannot he be trusted to control itself But it is iK not a project t to to be entered upon hastily You do not want to make the cure ure worse than the disease Here is not a cose COHEe for fot the for tor the theorist theorist orist for crank rank hut but for the man of af nf affairs fairs the jurist of repute the man who puts Ills his citizenship above aboe other eon con considerations Give Ghe it into their hands and give theta them tim thin and do not make another blunder like the th interstate er c nj w m mpr ree law Jaw and amid establish a tribunal that will w ill hi bp be so o anxious for more mere power it will n ill All l to use what wha t it has lIas |