The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-26
INTERESTS FREED
 FROM INJUNCTION Fish's Attorneys Take Action in
 Stock Shares HARAHAN MUCH PLEASED  President of Illinois Central Thinks Fish Is Weakening and That He
 Will Lose His Fight For
 Vindication.
HARAHAN MUCH PLEASED

Chicago, November 25.-The Mutual Life Insurance company's interest in the Illinois Central railroad were freed from the operations of the injunction recently secured by Stuyvesant Fish on motion of the latter's attorneys this afternoon.
 The insurance company owns $500 shares of Illinois Central stock and with these released the injunction now affects 2sl, ,2S1 shares. In making the motion to dismiss, the attorneys for the former president of the railroad said, that there is a fair ground un- der the statutes of Illinois to hold that life, fire and other insurance com panies can hold stock in such com panies for investment purposes only" and they therefore did mot care to question any such right
 We take this step" said Judge Far rar. one of the attorneys "in order to relieve the case of what we believe the only discussable proposition in it. and in order to reduce the case to the Fundamentally different questions. which arise as to the Union Pacific Railroad company and the Railroad Securities company.
 Motion Granted.
 Jude Ball granted the motion without prejudice to the orders issued as to the defendants. who include F. IT, liar riman. I. T. Harahan, John Jacob As tor, Cornelius Vanderbilt John w. Auchincloss Robert W. Goelet, A. G. Hackstaff Charles A. Peabody and many others. Todays action followed q day conference between MT. Fish. who arrived from New York this morning. and his attorneys. Mir Fish and his attorneys were disposed to treat the matter lightly tonight claim ing that the interests affected by the dismissal are comparatively insignifi- cant and that the issue as to the other defendants will have a different out come. On the contrary. President Harahan of the Illinois Central rail- road saw in the action and confession. weakness and predicted that the other cases will fall in similar manner.
 MT. Fish could not maintain the in- tegrity of the affidavit which he made when he swore to the bill and there fore quits" said Mir. Harahan. "He was a trustee of the Mutual Life h. surance company when it acquired the stock and voted 1t for years. When he ceased to be a trustee of the in surance company he discredited his own record by attacking investments which he assisted ii- making. We have got all we asked for at this time and the rest of the cases will be taken care of just as effectively"
 Fish's Statement.
 Mir. Fish took advantage of his pres ence in Chicago to give out state ment in answer to the demurrers, an swers and bills of exceptions filed by inc defendants to the suit Saturday and making charges against his course as president of the Illinois Central
 "1hese charges. vague, false or stale, are set up to affect proxy getting and not to operate as a defense of the in function suit" he said. "I have re- neatedly answered these same accua- tions. showing that Harahan, Astor, Hackstaff, Auchincloss and Vanderbilt following Hartman have invented at lea st four reasons for deposing me from the presidency of the road, although at that time they wrote me letter giving as their only ground my refusal to elect Mr. DeForest a director. After the loan to which they refer had been made and paid by me. the same men elected me president and increased my salary. The charge that I am trying to use my directorship in the Missouri psci6c to control the Illinois Central