The new South-news., 1906-11-17
REMOVAL HELD
TO BIZ ILLEGAL
COURTS WILL PASS ON GUST.
mo OF FISH.
COY. DENEEN SEEK ADVICE
On Law Which says Elections Shall
Be Held in Illinois-This is First
Election Of Presiden. Ever Held
Outside of the State.

peared at the National Park Bank. /
Mr.. Fish win have a desk IN the bank. /
where he was former vice presi- {
dent and is now a director
al regard the Illinois Central mat
ter as closed Incident he said
when seen by a reporter He refused /
to discuss any matters pertaining %
the cause Of his defeat at the meeting
of the Illinois Central board. He re-
ceived a stream of friends who called
at the bank to congratulate him upon
the position he has taken.
The ousted head of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad will for the present give
his mental activities to personal mat
ters. among which is the admins
tration of the estate of the late Ham
ilton Fish.
AT IL Broadway. where. in the Of
fees of the railroad. Mr.. Fish is fair
ly idolized, it was stated that the first
act of the former president of the
railroad, after the directors under the
direction of F.. ii. Hartman had re-
moved him, was to stretch out his
arm with unaffected heartiness con-
gratulate Mr. Harahan with the re-
mark:
81 am glad it is you, Jim. ! wish
you every success
After the meeting James b. Dill, Of
counsel for Mr.. Fish, said that he, in
behalf of certain stockholders, living
in Illinois, would bring an action
against the present controlling inter-
ests of the road ON the ground that
Mr.. Fish's removal was illegal.
Should it be established that the
election was invalid. another annual
meeting in place of the one held in
Chicago last month will be called
This will mean a fight for proxies
between Mr.. Fish and the Hartman
forces. II is believed Mr.. Fish would
get heavy majority of the proxies.
He would then be in a position IA.
reorganize the board.
New York.-Gov. Deneen Of Ill1
nois, who refused to vote at the mee1
ing of Illinois Central directors n
which Stuyvesant Fish was oust Id
from the presidency, is on his W h
home. and Wall stree expects somlt-
thing to drop within few DAYS
The Governor. who is supposed "a
be opposed to Hartman control of
the Illinois Central, refused to vote
because of the following provision of
the Illinois State Constitution:
A majority of the directors of any
railroad corporation. now incorporat-
ed or hereafter to be incorporated by
the laws of this State. shall be citi-
zens and residents Of this State.''
II was pointed ont by Gov. Den
cen that a majority of the Central :
board are not residents of Illinois.
The Governor also declared that I'M
der another law railroad companies
chartered by Illinois have no right t,
elect officers at meetings held outside
of the State.
The election of J. T. Harahan is
the first instance Of the election Of
an Illinois Central president being
held oustide the Prairie State.
Gov. Deneen stated that on his re-
turn home he would ask for a specific
opinion from his Attorney General
regarding the Illinois Central.
Hartman control of the Illinois
Central has given new life to the
movement for a deep waterway from
the lakes to the Gulf The Panama
Canal has become the key of the trans
portation problem in America, and +.
II. Hartman is the first of the great,
railroad magnates TO realize it and
to act upon it, according to his friends
in Chicago.
The control of the Illinois Central
together with control of the Chicago
and Alton. now practically recog-
nlzed as Hartman property. gives to
him as wide control Of the North
and South traffic as his rransconti-
mental lines now give him sway over
the East and West business.
Railroad men who have been watch
ing his maneuvers declare that with
his rail connections he will also estab-
ilsh steamship connection with Pan
anna and the canal. and that he will
also openly espouse the cause of the
Deep Waterway Commission, and ulti-
mately establish a line of steamers
plying between Chicago and Missis-
sIppi valley points and the isthmus.
French troops fought a irht en-