The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-22
FISH AGAIN WINS
 GREAT ADVANTAGE
Meeting of Illinois Central Is
 Again Postponed
PROXIES IN FAVOR OF FISH
Counting of Proxies Is Abandoned When Meeting Is Postponed to Dec. 18, and Fish Forces Lead
 by 10000 or More Votes.

Chicago. October 21.-Stuyvesant Fish early today secured a postponement of the Illinois Central stockholders meeting un- til December 1S The Hartman people agreed to the adjournment. although they had previously been anxious to push mat ters as rapidly as possible.
 The decision to adjourn the meeting was the result of conference held at o o'clock this morning between William Nelson Cromwell for MT. Hartman and Judge E. II. Farrar for MT. Fish. The overtures came from MT. Cromwell. who sought out the Fish people and declared that he wished to come to some sort of an agreement. He was informed by Judge Farrar that the only agreement that could be reached was to accept the terms of MT. Fish, which would be the adjourn ment until December IS, and decision of court, if the Hartman people so de- sired, to determine the right to vote the 2S6,73l shares of stock against which a temporary injunction was issued by Judge Bell one week ago.
 After an extended conference MT. Crom- well assented and the following agree ment was signed by him and Judge Farrar:
 ''We recognize that the numerous and complicated legal questions at issue will inevitably prolong the meeting for a con- siderable period, and that no official de- termination by the inspectors or tellers as to the shares of stock represented in person and by proxy at said meeting has yet been reached one way or the other"
 'In the interest of the company, and its stockholders at large, we consider it best to postpone the meeting to December IS at 12 o'clock, noon, and we agree in behalf of the interests we respectively represent that they shall vote for such adjournment when the meeting convenes on the 22d inst at Il o'clock, a. m., without any re- ports being received or other business be- ing transacted or determination of the in- spection.'
 The proxy committee late last night had worked down to the letter or" The proxies under the letter "W'' had pre- viously been considered leaving only five letters still to be passed upon.
 Although none of those directly inter- ested would give specific figures, it was understood that the total number of votes represented was not far from 46o,- 000 Of this amount Mir. Fish, accord ing to excellent authority, controlled about 250 GOO and MT. Hartman 21o,000. There was not sufficient votes in the remaining letters upon which the committee still had to pass to overcome this lead of MT. Fish, and it was evident that MT. Harri- man was beaten unless he could bring into the contest some portion of the 2S6.7 73l shares against which Judge Ball issued the injunction.
 Mr. Fish gave out statement tonight in which he claims to have had a ma jority of from 3O.000 to 50,oo0 when the count of proxies was abandoned. The statement says
 "Our victory is most gratifying and real. The best we could have hoped for under Judge Balls modified order was to pre- vent an election of directors at this time. This has not only been accomplished, but we have also secured a definite adjourn ment until December IS. When on Sat urday it became apparent to the Union Pacific party that our majority was so large that they could not-wn even if they secured every remaining proxy, their tae- tics for prolonging the session Of the stockholders meeting from day to day became apparent Late Saturday night, realizing that the best interests of the Illinois Central demanded that the pres ent sessions should be closed I authorized the making of an agreement between counsel which speaks for itself. The agreement to adjourn gives me all that I could have gained by using the pre- ponderance of my votes and constituents and acknowledgment by the Hartman party of their failure to now elect diree- tors, for if they held more proxies than I they would not have agreed to such an adjournment but would have selected their directors tomorrow and ended the struggle"