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Show ii SKIPS FOB EUiT 10 AVOID SUMMONS Commerce Commission Unable Un-able to Obtain Testimony From Mellen's Counsel. WASHINGTON", May 3. Now Inter-i Inter-i est was added to the investigation by tho interstate commerce commission into in-to financial relations or the Now York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and tlio BilJard company by Ibo unsuccessful unsuccess-ful efforts of the commission to summon Johu Hall McKay, who has boon mentioned men-tioned as private counsel for former President Mellen, ami who in the opinion opin-ion of Chief Counsel Folk is an essential essen-tial witness. It was learned by the commission that Mr.. McKay wa.s at Ins of rice in New York yesterday and that ' I some timo during tho dny he sailed for I "Kurone. Mr. Folk is now trying to j lind out whether his departure was be fore or after his name was brought into the proceedings. Samuel Hemingway, president of the Second National bank of Now Haven, one of the recalcitrant, witnesses of pril 10, testified at length today, but disclosed little. Mr. Hemingway, who was one time treasurer of tho much-discussed much-discussed Billard company, said ho un-1 un-1 derstood tho concern was a holding company, com-pany, first capitalized at $50,000. Sub-sequentlv Sub-sequentlv the capital was increased to $2.000,0u0. Ho said he did not know where the capital came from; that ho know nothing of the company's opora-jious. opora-jious. Political contributions paid in 100! by President Mellen i.o tho Republican national committee and to various st.'ito ' committees, amountiug to $102,000, lig- ! ' urcd in tho day's testimony as an on-livening on-livening incident. These payments, it k was shown, did not appear on the New ! Haven's books, having been authorized by the New Haven directors out of i '"'expected profits ' from Mr. Mellen s i sale of treasury stock of tho company. I Julian M. Tomlinson. auditor ot the ; New Haven, testified about the contri-( contri-( buttons which, lie said, President Mel-, Mel-, ; len told him he had made out of his ; ! own funds, afterwards being reim-I reim-I ' bursed by the road. The witness said i i he recalled Feeing a vouchor of the Con-' Con-' ?olidated Railroad company, another r ! New Haven subsidiarv, showing a pay-; pay-; mcnt of $100,000 to Mr. Robbins, then I general counsel for the New' Haven, i Mr. Tomlinson also said he thought the books show a payment of $23,000 to John Hall McKay from tho New England Navigation "company. |