The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-16
FISH AFTER PROXIES
DEPosED PRnsrDENr or ILLINOIS
 CENTRAL ISSUES A STATEMENT.
He Says His Present Proxies Expire In December And The Harrisnan Tn- terests Are Trying To Defer
 Election.

New York, Nov. 15.--Steuvesant Fish has addressed a letter to the stockhold- CTS of the Illinois Central Railway Com pany regarding the adjourned meeting of the company set for December IS. After reviewing the contest at the last meeting, MT. Fish says in part:
 Tt is significant that up to this date no effort has been made by the Union Pacific to dissolve the injunction as to its holding or that the Railroad Securi- ties Company; alth ough the Mutual Life Insurance Company with a relatively unimportant holding of $500 shares, has asked to be relieved of the re- straint. This motion turns upon fun damentaliy different questions of law and of fact from those involved in the cases of the Union Pacific and the Rail- road Securities Company. The contest now being waged is for the purpose of busting me from the board of di- rectors, of which have been a mem Der for thirty years and for electing four directors dominated by E. H. Har- riman, thus giving to him, with the Un- ion Pacific directors and their adher- ents already in the board. the absolute and permanent control, not only of the polocies of the Illinois Central, but also of his physical and hnancial assets and possib ilities. for all time.
 "My colleagues, Mir. Beach and Mir !. Cutting, stand with me for the integ- rity anH independence of the Illinois CentraP Railroad Company. untram- meIled by any affiliations with or con- troi of other railroads. Mr. Hartman stands for the engulfing of our com- pany in the idle control by him of the transportation in this country, through the instrumentality of the Union Pa cific Company. To this end, he caused the company to buy from himself and his associates. nearly thirty per cent (29.5sn) of the stock of the Illinois Central. an amount sufficient accord ing to the sworn testimony of MT. Otto Kuhn. of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, the fiscal agents of the Union Pacific, to enable the holder to exercise domi- hating influence' in the anairs or a railroad company, whose stock Is as widely scattered as that of the Illinois Central. What MT. Harrimansi pur- poses and practices are is shown in the report of the Interstate Commerce Com g4s. a copy of which Is enclosed, and which every stockholder should read before giving his proxy.
 aSince the adjournment Of the stockholders' meeting, A. G. Hackstan, as secretary of the Illinois Central Rail- road, has sent out an official circular to the stockholders soliciting thelr proxies TOT nlmSeiL anu AoF Ss As AAAt ahan. These gentlemen are known ad- herents and followers of Mfr. Harrf- man. A proxy to them is in effect proxy to him which through the power of substitution inserted in their form of proxy, may by them be made in fact a proxy to MT. Hartman.
 "As 1t may be claimed that the proxies heretofore given to Mir. Beach, Mir. Cutting and myself, in. terms ex- pire on December R1. 1907. and an at tempt made to prolong the annual meeting of stockholders for the years 1907 and 1908 and thereby defer the election of the directors, the enclosed proxy has been drawn to cover all pos- sible adjournments of that meeting.
 "My colleagues and will continue our efforts to maintain the Integrity and independence of the Illinois Gen. tral Railroad to prevent it's absorption by interests alien to those of its stock holders and patrons; to prevent Its rel- egatiof to the position of a subsidiary and sergiie feeder and fattener to- other railroads dominating it. and to preserve for it's proprietors the benefits of it's present prosperity and future boundlesa possibilities" f