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Show PROMPT ACTION IS IMPERATIVE t New Haven Conferees "Fiddl- " ing Away While Rome Is Burning," Says Weeks. URGES WILSON TO ACT i ! - I Serious Aspect of Situation I Pointed Out by Senator From Massachusetts. Washington, March 16. "They are fiddling away while Rome is burning," burn-ing," said Senator Weeks, Republican, of Massachusetts, today after a con- ! ference with President Wilson, in , which he declared the New Haven 1 j . railroad conferees with the depart- ment of justice were wasting time , and that executive influence w.as required re-quired to bring them together prompt- i, ! 8 It was understood that the senator ; j 1 suggested to the president that he i j , S call- in Attorney General IcReynolds, J tfill Governor Walsh of Massachusetts, j J , Ha Chairman Howard Elliott of the New ' lily Haven and T. W. Gregory, special j . . Wt : counsel for the department of jus- ' H tice, to bring about an agreement. i i jH The president had a conference ar- Wk ranged with the Attorney-general la- fl ter today and it was not supposed , 'S that he would determine on his rf course until then. Senator Weeks '. pointed out what he believed to be ;t , j fJfj serious aspect of the situation. jafj Serious Situation. Mm "The New Haven" he said, "must , urn raise about $100,000,000 in the next , flPj four months to meet maturing obliga- E ; mn tions and under present conditions Wft It cannot. There is one man who ; Kjf can bring all the various elements to- i Ir; , sether.-.He. is- tho -president-of the - ' J If United States." ' J Senator Weeks Indicated he had mf not discussed the merits of the de- ml mauds of the New Haven and the t flfi department of justice, but emphasized ? , r i the necessity for prompt action. I The attorney-general's view is that i 1 m the property should be disposed of f within the next two and a half or JTj three years before the close of the f ju present administration, because he ?Jjj thinks the responsibility for the dis- V jB solution of the New Haven should not ajl be left to any future administration- 1 j Ijj |