New-York tribune., 1907-12-14
GUST HARTMAN
r,.,,,,esant Fish Anszcers Attack IN
Illinois Central Fight.

nac 1s-'If / obtain a majority Of
ChoAe e. he voted at the annual meeting of the
F:e.. central Railroad Company / shall depose
lh"s n Hartman as a director, declared
SoW+ Fish in an affidavit fled to-day in the
s'us Court He also declared in the affidavit
sus a+o everybody in the country the removal Of
tn1s ., individual Hartman is shown to be
f'e he a welcome sign of returning morality in
". ansgernent Of great corporations OF the coun-
IT," ,..u .ca.,,;. rvb,c, &c r.n,v 70
M std Yesterday in the name Of Mr. Hartman
ths ,ns- directors OF the Illinois Central declares
tA 81, he has been benefactor of J. I. Harahan.
N N ,-esident Of the Illinois Central He asserts
Nv. ~ he saved Harahan from dismissal several
a-s H ago when Hartman and George A. Peabody
6eclared tlal fa<-iA1iSa 4-"A o'-'0 ms
.o .he company.
= t1sb sets forth that there was perfect har-
- IN the railroad company until the winter OF
"a. ;a5 when Hartman and Peabody sought the
.sblishuent OF executive committee to which
s-,-e-.ouary powers were to be delegated lie
S,a-es in the affidavit that he incurred additional
,i+v when he refused to become a party to the
o-t .'yhittwashing'' the officials Of the Mutual
I,sa Insurance Company The assertion is also
.5e that Hartman and Peabody broke faith with
rssh IN 1906 when they agreed that man indie
,e,5eut Of any faction was to be elected to The
s,er-orgte TO all the vacancy caused by the death
:. william Morton Grinnell. Hartman, he says,
,,e,pted to procure the election of Henry De
Fp-est an attorney Of Mr.. Hartman. who was
.,,o a director OF the Southern Pacific which is
hon,inated by the Union Pacific.
Mr. Fish declares that since 1877 it has been the
custom Of railroad to lend its idle funds to off,
GERS or directors OF the road, to firms of which
they were members, or to corporations OF which
they were officers He insists that Hartman and
peabody were among those who took advantage of
this custom and declares that all OF his loans
,.corsea on the books Of the company and that the
,,IlsteraI was good and sufficient Referring to
.be loan Of So 900 to the Trust Company of the Re
,rhlic MI Fish asserts that It was good, but that
:, the panic OF 1903 the collateral deprecated OF
the total amount SIS, 600 has been paid, and the
o,,,nany will lose nothing.
Nv Fish charges that the accusations of mis-
arrangement made against him untrue. He ad
ns being a director Of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
mad which is to extent a competitor OF the
Illinois Central, but says that the charges that he
Desires domination the affairs of the Illinois
Central for the benefit Of the missouri Paclhc are
false and slanderous-
The affidavit continues:
II is true that if 1 obtain majority of the
n-oxes l propose to put Hartman off the board OF
.aIf 70 do this and I deem il my duty TO do so.
both in the interests Of myself as the holder of
patrons OF road. of the people Of Illinois and of
The Unuted Sf91eS 10 TGh Tsprnan ane is SHOWN to
Re bv the Interstate Commerce Commission re-
port No s would be wele3e on i sign ea ea eoInora
tons Of the country
After the reading of the Fish affidavit the formal
arguments against the injunction obtained last Oc-
,oher by Mr. Fish, restraining the voting of stock
held by the Union Pacific road and the Railroad
Securities Company were begun, John j. Herrick
opening for Mr.. Hartman.
He declared that the statutes Of Illinois do not
rrohifit the requirement or exchange of stock by
connecting railroads, and that the holding of I'LL
nois Central stock by the Union Pacific is not Il