The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-10-19
FISH GETS OUT IvJUNc1lnr
AGAINST HARTMAN.
Combination in Violation .e
Both State and Federal Law.
Alleged by Former Pre.;d.,.
Of Illinois Central-Creat I.
gal Contest Promised.

fighting to overthrow Edward p u.s. .sn
riman and James T. Harahan in tha;.
control of the Illinois Central rai,ros of
yesterday afternoon enjoined the 20.
ing at Wednesdays annual meeting =.
288,761 shares of etock held by Ha,, "
man. Harahan voters. With this low.
amount Of stock, out of The outstans
ing $50. 900 shares, silenced by COM
dcree, Fish now hopes to te abla ~
control the railroad and to reinstoto
himslef as the prime factor in the no0;
ton wheDue he was hurled by Harri.
man.
The Hartman Harahan Interest.
met this action with the statement
that the move is q confession tbot
Fish is beaten and that he is in ths
attitude Of man who CHALLENGED
another to duel and then, arrivina
upon the ground calls policeman 10
protect him from his adversary. Il
is added in rebuttal that the sama
shares that Mr.. Fish now seeks tn
enjoin were in 1906 voted by Mr.. Fish
when they we're placed in his hands
to be voted for his benefit.
The new movement 1nsures tho
warmest railroad battle in the nations
history when the forces of the two
leaders get together at the main Offices
of the company to elect directors.
Conspiracy Alleged
In his legal document, Mr.. Fish
unfolds the most gigantic allegations
of conspiracy that have ever been
made respecting the manipulation Of
any corporation. He charges, in
effect, that E. FL. Hartman proceeded
to manufacture '1ist'' of stockhold.
ers, composed of lawyers in the EN-.
ploy of the road and personal friends,
clerks and agents, who have been
marshalled for the big meeting tomor.
row. Neither Mr.. Hartman nor. Mr..
Fish would last night claim a major
ity of the remaining votes that are to
come into play at the meeting.
FIsh's remarkable legal step came
yesterday afternoonn, when he pres
ented to Judge William M. Ball, in
the superior court, an application for
a restraining order estopping the d.
rectors of the road from permitting
the casting or counting of the sha res
owned by the Union Pacific, the Rail-
road Securities Company and the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, al
leging that under the laws of Illinois
one corporation may not own and
vote stock in another.
Federal Laws Violated
It is also charged that the Union
Pacific and Railroad Securities Com
pany are stockholders in a competing
line of road in violation of the federal
laws, and the court is asked to decree
that they sell their holdings within
a reasonable time.
This feature of the case opens up
line of federal action that is presumed
to be what Mr.. Fish placed before
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay
during the summer, and upon which
it was stated that the president de-
clined to act. It is certain to lead to
legal battle in, which it will be as
serted that the Union Pacific stands
in the same relation to the Illinois
Central that the roads composing the
Northern Securities Company did to
each other, or, in plain words, that
the ownership Of the one by the other
is a trust in violation Of the law.
Replying to this charge in general,
the Hartman Harahan interests say
that the Illinois law, while limiting
the powers of corporations to hold
stocks in other corporations makes
such limitation only with respect 70
industrial corporations and not TO
railroads.