The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-14
Fish May Carry His Fight for
Control of /. G. to Courts.
Likely to Ask for Injunction to
Postpone Annual Meeting.
HARTMAN TO RESIST
Action Will Be Brought Under
an Illinois State Law.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

Chicago, Oct. 14.-1t is possible tina
the struggle for the control of the IL
linois Central railroad between Stuyve-
SAINT Fish and E. H. Hartman may be
taken into the courts.
The attorneys of Mr. Fish are en-
gagged in the preparation of a petition
asking the courts to enjoin any person
or corporation from voting any stock
in the annual meeting to be held We'd
nesday next which may be shown to
be owned or controlled by the Union
Pacific railroad.
The action, it is said, will be
brought under an Illinois statute
which prohibits one corporation from
owning stock in another. The attor-
neys for Mr.. Hartman have already
ings along this line that the Illinois
Central by reason of its special char
ter would be exempt from the opera
ton of this law even if it were not a.
fact that railroad corporations are by
implication, exempt from its opera
ton.
1t is understood that it is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Fish to obtain a tempor-
airy injunction by which the annual
meeting will be delayed until the court
can pass upon the important question
involved in the present dispute.
William Nelson Cromwell formerly
of the Panama Canal commission, is
said to be due in Chicago tomorrow in
order to take charge of the Hartman
interest If legal battle should be pre-
cipitated. Mr.. Fish was closeted yes
terday for several hours with his at
torneys but would neither affirm nor
deny the report that he was about to
instigate proceedings to restrain the
Illinois Central stockholders from
holding their annual meeting.
Heretofore Mr. Fish's trips from
New York to the Illinois Centrals an
nua1 meetings have been made in his
IL Il
trail and Michigan Central roads, with
E. H. Hartman, John Jacob Astor,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Goelet,
and other leaders of finance and So
ciety in the town by the big bridge as
his guests.
The trip finished Saturday night he
made as an ordinary passenger in an
ordinary Pullman car, over the West
Shore and wabash roads. Instead of
being greeted by scores of officials of
the Illinois Central as in days past
when he stepped from his private car,
last night he found only a crowd of
newspaper men awaiting him. His
travelling compa nionS. were his son,
Fish, jrgs Henry w. Le-
man, attorney, of Chicago and P. L.
Bormeister of New York, whom Mr.
Fish later described as "a gentleman
and stakeholder of the Illinois Cen
trail" using an emphasis which indi-
Gated that not every stakeholder is
in Mr.. Fish's opinion, but
he did not specify Mr.. Harahan, his
successor and late pugilistic combat
ant, or any of Mr.. Harriman's follow
ing.
Mr.. Leman has been a prominent
figure at the annual meetings of the
Illinois Central for many years and a
oyal supporter of Mr.. Fish. He has
been working strenuously in Chicago |
for some time past to induce local |
stockholders to give their proxies to |
Mr. Fish and went to New York to |
.eport the success of his efforts and to |
oin in the plan of campaign to be |
waged Wednesday against the Harri-
nan forces.