The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-10
Control of the Great Gould
 System at Stake
RAMSEY LOSES FIRST ROUND
Decision of Judge Taylor Allows Gould to Vote Wabash Holdings of Mis- sour Pacific and Iron
 Mountain Today.

Toledo, O.. October e.-George J. Gould arrived in Toleda late this afternoon ready for the annual meeting of the Wa bash railroad which is to be held to- morrow. Joseph Ramsey, Jr., ex-presi- dent of the road. the former friend and present antagonist of Mir Gould, Is also on the ground prepared to fight for the
 control of the Wabash system. With Mir Gould came Wnslow S. Pierce. a di-
 rector of the Wabash, and MT. Gould's legal adviser; Edgar T. Wiles and Col. T. H. Blodgett, vice president of the sys- tenn. and E. T. Jeffrey. president of the Denver and Rio Grande, and Rio Grande Western, and one of MT. Goulds chief lieutenants. Other directors of the road are here and all of them seem friendly
 to MT Gould and disposed to uphold his interests. Mir Ramsey, save for his legal advisers seems to stand practically alone. Gould Declines to Talk. MT. Gould himself this afternoon de- clined to discuss the probable outcome or
 the meeting, but his friends confidently
 predict that he will not only retain con
 trol of the Wabash system bs an over
 whelming majority of votes, but that
 when the smoke of battle has cleared away 1t will be found that not only MT. Ramsey failed to gain control or the
 system, but that he has been removed from it entirely, and that his name does
 not even appear in the new board of d.-
 rectors.
 MT. Ramsey, like MT. Gould, declines to make predictions. He is. however. to | I,I confident
 to a degree. Neither side will give fig ures as to the total number of proxies
 controlled, but the Gould party declared tonight that the decision of Judge Taylor
 in St. Louis which gave to 4lr. Gould
 practically 0o0o votes, meant nothing to
 him SO far as ability to control the meet
 ing is concerned No matter how that
 case was decided, they claim Mr. Gould
 has so large an excess of votes that he could not only have lost the 14O,ooo, but
 could even have transferred them to MT.
 Ramsey without altering the result. To statements such as these MT. Ramsey says nothing. He simply says: | "We will know all about it tomorrow" | The stockhoders' meeting will be held
 at o'clock tomorrow morning The prob ability is that the meeting of directors | will not follow that of the stockholders
 but will be held some weeks later in New York.
 Decision Mentioned In Court | 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 rail- l roads, was mentioned in court this after
 noon by Judge Doyle, Mir. Ramsey's att torney, as this important decision af- l fertinp fullV onp-t -thirtipth all the votes' but MT. Ramsey himself did not, | outwardly at least, invest it with as much importance is did his lawyer. He
 refused to discuss 1t at length saying:
 There Is nothing I can say. The de-
 cislon speaks for itself. It is not decisive.
 however, and is only one trick in tho
 game"
 However. at conference held at noon
 between MT. Ramsey and his attorneys. 1t
 was decided in view of the decision of Judge Taylor to abandon the fight started
 byMr Ramsey for the removal of the three
 men who have for several years acted
 as judges of election at the annual meet ings of the Wabash railroad Through
 out the morning the attorneys for MT.
 Ramsey. and those acting for the Wabash railroad. argued upon the power of tho
 court to remove the three inspectors. The
 counsel for Mir. Ramsey submitted long list of names appended to an affidavit Wnicn set IOTtn that lne WHOSe
 names were submitted were actual own
 CTS of the Wabash stock of debenture
 bonds. The Gould lawyers insisted that there was no proof in court that tho
 overs of the names were bona flde
 holders of either bonds or stocks. The
 Ramsey attorneys admitted this but de- clared that they could not prove this positively without the stock book of the Wabash railroad which was in the pos session of MT. Gould, and they asked that the court order the stock book brought into court
 Swing Around Legal Circle.
 Then they all swung around the legal circle again, the Wabash lawyers claim
 ing that the court had no power to order
 the stock book produced. because it 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 anybody but himself.
 The direct path out of the labyrinth
 was revealed when the court met in the afternoon.
 Judge Kinkald took his seat, the at-
 torneys for the Wabash road apparently
 in high feather over the St. Louis decis-
 ion laughing and whispering among them selves. MT. Ramsey was represented
 only by Judge Doyle. After a long pause
 Judge Doyle made the following state ment to the court:
 Your honor. since the adjournment of the hearing this morning. we have seen the telegraphed decision of the federal court in St. Louis upon MT. Ramsey's 1 application to restrain the voting of the stock held by the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railroads The decision says that great illegalities have been com mtted. and because Mir. Ramsey last year held the stock in the same man. ner in which he Is seeking to prevent he Is stopped from asking for relief Tn view of this important decision which aqected fully one-thirtieth of the vote we now ask permission to withdraw our application for the removal of the three election inspectors
 The move of MT. Ramsev's attorneos | occasioned great surprise and for nearly a minute nobody spoke. Judge Kinkaid then said:
 'T believe that an attorney making an application to the court for relief has