The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-10
INJUNCTION
 NOT GRANTED RamSey'S Application is
 Denied. "A VICTORY FOR GOULD Fighting for Control of the
 Wabash. Principals in Contest Over Great Rail- way system stun Confident. Stockholders win Meet
 Today.

afrive0 in Ioleuo late tn1S aItethOou ready for the annual meeting of the Wabash Railroad, which is to be held tomorrow. Joseph Ramsey. Jr., ex- president of the road. the former friend and present antagonist of MT. Gould. Is also on the ground. prepar- ing to fight for the control of the Wabash system. With Mir. Gould came Wabash. and Mir. Gould's legal adviser; Edgar T. Willis and Col H. Blodgett. vice presidents of the system. and E. T. Jeffrey. president of the Denver and Rio Grande and Rio Grande West tenants. Other directors of the road are here and all of them seem friend- ly to MT. Gould and disposed to up- hold his interests. MT Ramsey, save for his legal advisers, seems to stand practically alone.
 clined to discuss the probable, outcome of the meeting. but his friends con- fidently predict that he will not only retain control of the Wabash system by an overwhelming majority of votes, but that when the smoke of battle has cleared away it will be found that not only has Mir Ramsey failed to gain control of the system. but that he has been removed from 1t entirely and that his names does not even ap- pear in the new board of directors.
 MT. Ramsey. like Mir. Gould. declines to make predictions. He Is, however, to all appearances, cheerful and con fident to a degree. Neither side will give figures as to the total number of proxies controlled, but the Gould party declared tonight that the decis- ion of Judge Taylor in St. Louis, which ~tf ffxx votes. meant nothing to him so far as ability to control the meeting is concerned. No matter how that case was decided. they claim, MT. Gould has so large an excess Of votes that he could not only have lost 140.0o0 to MT. Ramsey without altering the result. To statements such as these Mir. Ramsey says nothing. He simply laughs and says We will know all about it tomorrow"
 Stockholders Meet Today.
 The stockholders meeting will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. The probability is that the meeting of directors will not follow that of the stockholders. but will be held some weeks later in New York.
 The decision of Judge Taylor in st. Louis, which released for use against MT. Ramsey all the votes controlled by the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railroads, was mentioned in court this afternoon by Judge Doyle. Mir Ramsey's attorney. as this fmpor- tant decision, affecting fully one- thirtieth of all the votes" but MT. Ramsey himself did not, outwardly at least, invest it with as much impor- tance as did his lawyer. He refused to discuss it at length, saying
 There Is nothing l can say The decison speaks for itself. It IS not Id only trick in the game"
 However, at a conference at noon between MT Ramsey and his attorneys it was decided. In view of the decision of Judge Taylor. to abandon the fight started by MT. Ramsey for the removal sf the three men who have for several years acted as judges of election at the annual meetings of the Wabash Rail- road. Throughout the morning the at- torneys for MT. Ramsey and those act- ing for the Wabash Railroad argued upon the power of the court to remove the three inspectors. The counsel Tor Mr Ramsey submitted a long list of names. appended to an affidavit which set forth that the people whose names were submitted were actual owners Of Wabash stock of debenture bonds. The Gould lawyers insisted that there was no proof in court that the owners of the names were bona fde holders of either bonds or stocks. The Ramsey attor neys admitted this, but declared that they would not prove this positively without the stock book of the Wabash Railroad, which was in the possession of Mir. Gould and they asked that the court order that the stock book be brought into court
 Round the Legal Circle.
 Then they all swung around the legal circle again, the Wabash lawyers claim Ing that the court had not power to order the stockbook produced. because if had not been shown that 1t was asked for by any person having the right to ask for it. There was no proof, they said. that Ramsey represented any body but himself.
 The direct path out of the labyrinth. was revealed when the court met In the afternoon.
 fudge Kinkalde took his seat. the ottornevs for the Wabash road, ap- narently in high feather over the St. ouIs decision, laughed and whispering among themselves. Mir. Ramsey was renresented only by Judge Doyle After a long pause, Judge Doyle made the following statement to the court:
 "Your Honor, since the adjournment this morning we have seen the tele- erapbed decision of the federal court in e, T.o,is upon MT. Ramsey's applica ttor to restrain the voting of the stock | beld bv the Missouri Pacific and Iron | Mountain roads The decision says | tbat great illegalities have been com | fitted hut because MT. Ramsey last | wear voted the stock in the same man | ner in which he Is seeking to prevent | its heinz voted he is estopped from | askinr for relief. In view of this | innnortant decision. which affects fully | one -thirtieth of the vote. we now ask | onrraissIon onr to withdraw our applica- t,on for the removal of the three cleo tion inspectors. r,..,,. ...
 .odas,omed great surpries and for uearIv a minute nobody spoke. Judge | ..T heiIeye that ali attorney making an annilcation to the court for relief sns sn tSs light to withdraw such applica- tfon if he so desires"
 We are willing. Your Honor said
 aWsIl we makH the application to withdraw" said Judge Doyle;
 .sIt ts Sranted snd there Is nothing | in the tn n matter Def Ire the court" replied