Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-14
FISH DELIVERS HOT
SHOT TO HARTMAN
lis Retirement Would BE- a We'll
come Sign Of Returning gep-
aItg Among Corporations.
SAYS THE WIZARD" IS OlsIuasEa
Docs Not Consider Best Interests OF
Corporation While He is Carrying
Gu, Plans to Crafty Personal Am.
blt'on-Nr. Fish Asserts Tina, He
Did Not Mismanaoe Property.

CHICAGO, ILL. Dec. i3-"lf !
obtain a majority o, nroxies, 10 hc
voted ut tho annual meeting OF the
Illinois Central railroad company. /
ahnli dcncac Edward II. Hartman
as director" declared Stuyvesan,
Fish. In tan AFFIDAVIT fllca today In the
Superior Court. He also dnclared In
the affidavit, TO everybody In tho
country tho removal OF such an in
divldrai as Hartman Is shown 10 b..
would be welcome sign OF return
Ing morality In tho management o,
great corporations OF tho country"
Mr. Fish, in his affidavit reiterated
Tho statement that Mr.. Hartman ia
seeking control OF tho Illinois Central
IN tho interest OF the Union Pacific.
AIR. Fish IN his affidavit declarca that
he has been a benefactor of J. r.
harahan. now president OF the Him
ola Central. He asserts that Sc SAY.
I'D tarahau from dismissal several
years ago when Hartman and Geo.
a Peabody declared that Ilarahau
had ouuived h!s usefulness TO tho
company.
Mr. Fish7sct; fourth that there was
perfect harmony In the railroad com.
pany until tho winter of i9O4-5. when
Hartman and Peabody soush. the
establishment of an executive coin.
mitee TO which discretionary powers
We're TO be dictated. He declares In
the affidavit tina; he incurred their
cnmity when he refused TO become
party to the report white wnsh.
ing" the officials of tho Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
Tho assertion Is also made that
Hartman and Peabody brot, faith
with Fish In 1906 when they agreed
mat man independent OF any fac
ton was 10 be elected TO the dIrec-
tora,e to iii tho vacancy caused by
III" death OF William Morton Grin
mel,
Fish Outlines Defense.
Hartman he says, ATTEMPTED 10
secure the election Of Henry w. De-
Forrest. an attorney OF Mr.. iIarrl-
mans, who was also director OF
the Southern Pacific. which is doml-
mated by the Union Pacific.
Mr.. Fish declares in his affidavit,
that since 1877 it has been Tho Gus
lom OF the railroad 10 loan it's idle
funds 10 officers or directors OF the
railroad or 70 firms OF which thcv
were members or to corporations OF
which they were officers.
Mr.. Fish insist, in his affidavit
tina. Hartman and Peabody were am
ong those who took advantage oil
the custom of the company IN loaning
these funds. He declares shat all o,
his loans We're recorded on the books
of the company and that The coliat-
eral was good and sufficient.
Referring 10 the loan of $57 900 TO
the Trust Company OF the Republic.
AIR. Fish asserts that 1t was COED,
but that in tho panic OF 1903, tho
collateral dotcrloratod.
or the total amount eos 900 has
been paid and that the company will
lose nothing.
Mr.. Fish charges that the accusa
lions OF mismanagcment made about
him are untrue. lie admits being n
director OF the Missouri Pacific. which
Is to some extent competitor OF
tho Illinois Central. but sayr tina,
the charges that he desires domino
hon over the affairs of tho Illinois
Central for the benefit of tho Mis-
souri, Pacific are false and SANDER
GUS.