The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-18
FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF
 THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL
FISH AND HARRIMAN AGENT CLASH OPENLY BEFORE 25O
 STOCKHOLDERS.

Former Believed to Remain in Control
 as Result of the TroubIe--InsInuation,
 However, That Victory is Not Final--
 Hartman Interest Claims That oa
 Thirteen Directors Seven Are Placed
 on Record in Opposition to Fish.
 Chicago. Oct. 1z-The fight for the control of the Illinois Central Railroad company waxed hot to-day. stuyves- ant Fish, president of the road, and William Nelson Cromwell, representing E. H. Hartman, president of the Southern Pacific, clashed openly before 25O stockholders who had come from various parts of the country to attend the meeting. On the face of the record MT. Fish appears to have been the vic- tor, but that the victory is not a final one is insinuated by Mir. Cromwell The representative of MT. Hartman said to The Associated Press:
 "Of directory of thirteen people there are still seven members who have placed themselves on record in opposi- tion to MT. Fish in this contest. There will be a meeting of the board, prob ably in November. This board will elect the officers of the railroad. You can draw your own conclusions"
 The clash between Messrs Hartman and Fish was waged over an agreement dated July 27, 1906, and signed by Stuy- vesant Fish, Charles A. Peabody and E. H. Hartman. Tn June MT. Fish had begun the collection of proxies for use at the meeting held to-day. He says that an effort was also made by Har- riman also to get proxies through Kuhn, Loeb & Go. On July IS, Mr. Peabody introduced a resolution at a meeting of the board of directors that a committee of the directory be ap- pointed to collect proxies However, on July 27, Messrs. Fish, Peabody and Hartman entered into an agreement as follows:
 Three outgoing directors to be re- elected; MT. Grinnell's successor to ba selected by majority of the several directors acting; MT. Peabodys resolu- tion of July IS to be withdrawn and not to be revived this year; MT. Hartman will ask that the Harriman-Kuhn Loeb 1 proxies be given to MT. Fish,
 l w. Morton Grinnell, member of the beard of directors, had died during the year. MT. Fish claims that the Hartman faction agreed that MT Grinnell's successor should be a man whose presence on the directory will not be inimical to the independence of the Illinois Central and would be ac- ceptable to Mr. Fish. Henry DeForest, a director of the Southern Pacific, of which MT. Hartman is president, and one of the counsel for MT. Hartman, was named in petition signed by MT. Hartman and six other directors to succeed MT. Grinnell. By reason of his Southern Pacific affiliations, Mir De- Forest was not acceptable to Mr. Fish MT. Cromwell declares that under the agreement Mr Fish was bound to ac- cept MT. DeForest and to cast both his own and the Hartman proxies for him. At to-days meeting MT Fish after formally being called upon by MT. Cromwell to cast the proxies in favor of Mir. DeForest, arose and declared with great emphasis:
 q will never under any conditions Vote for MT. DeForest."
 MT. Fish thereupon placed James Dewitt Cutting of New York in nonli-
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