The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-27
Fish Replies to President Hara-
nan OF Illinois Control.
Declares That Harriman Ia
Trying to Secure Central.
TELLS WHOLE STORY.
OF Dealings Between U. p. Di-
rectOrs and DepOsed President
Other Items of Interest In
Railway People.

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New York. Sept 27--Stuyvesaut Fish
has made public q reply TO the circular
sent out OF Tuesday last by President
Earahan Of the Illinois Central in
which he declares that the charges
made by Mr. Earahan were not new.
but had been published long ago and
each met BY me and disposed Of
But the one point at issue to be
decided by the stockholders Of the Il
Ifnofs Central at the coming annual
meeting. Is now mere touched upon"
says Mr. Fish
Shall Illinois Central become d Mere
feeder and fattener Of the Union Pa
c11c2 Can any such perversiou Of the
purposes and opportunities OF the Hi
notS Central be profra Die TO the stock
hoIders2 VIII Illinois General stock
holders submit 10 having all OF their
voica and power in the management
and control CT their property delegated
20 one man under the power or arEor-
uey plan which Mr. Hartman has so
adroitly used 70 his own profit
Mr. Fish than quotes from the by
laws Of the Union Pacific 70 show how
this could be done. and continues
Il certain interest does. however. at
tach to some Of the speciCus excuses
now put out by Mr. Hartman and his
oUsted- and there IS also interest at
rzching 10 the reasons why IL has been
necessary TO change and modify the
excuses so often
The circular OF September "a. which
Is fathered by Mr. Earahan- shows on
its face that II emanatss from Mr..
Harahan IN that is contains precisely
the same allegations that he had In
iecCed into his testimony before the IN
uersrare commerce commission last
February
Mr. Fish here quotes the reply TO
these charges which was widely pub
ushed al the time. and says
But the reason given last February
by Mr. Hartman for having turned
ME out of the presidency CT the Illinois
Central was by no means the only one
which he had given At the last meet
ing OF the stockholders OF the Illinois
Central Railroad company held On DC
tober l.. 1896. Mr. Hartman and his
attorney William Nelson Cron1 well
made their fight solely on the ground
that I would rot consent 10 election
into the Illinois General board OF an
other director Of the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific system
But when called 70 testify before
the interstate commerce commission
Mr.. hartman could not stand On eth
er the proposition that he had quar-
relied with NE because I would not add
70 The Union PaCifC-SOurheru Pacific
representation IN the Illinois Central
board. OF on the vague geusralities OF
the letter Of November :. 1906. which
he had caused the other directors to
join with him IN signing and handing
70 re at the opening OF the meeting OF /
the board OF directors held on that
zav NOT yet On the statement that he /
vas ard had been the principal owner /
Of Illinois Central stock because IL |
had Just then been proved in the hear |
ing before the interstate commerce I
commission that he had sold his I'LL I
ucis Central holdings 70 the Union Pa
II In ~ =
statement that the Illinois Central had I
not grown and progressed as that was |
emphaticaIIy coutradicred by the an
r71aI reports OF that company which ]
were in the possession Of the commission I
Hence the necessity for him to then in
vent yet another charge which he did /
By truEupfug Up accusation against !
me IN respect 10 matters which had I
hapueued four years before which were /
and had always been fully shown on /
the books OF the company and were 4
perfectly well known to the directors I
Of the Illinois Central Railroad CON- /
pany when they unanimously re-eieet- I
ed ne president in the autumn OF 1903 /
and again IN 1904 and for a third time
in 1905
Concerning the loan by him as presi- 4
dent OF the Illinois Central to Mr. +
Dresser Mr.. Fish says that IL was
made in collateral which at the tire I
was marketable and abundant Al
ter the failure OF the Dresser nrr1 the +
collateral vas sold at a loss, But
says Mr. Fish II my personal enc
mics can only claim that caused the
company a single small loss IN respect
TO the miIlions-I might say hundreds
Of u1fIHons-ioaned IN the meanwhile
Cunore OF IL 70 Mr. Hartman than any
other individually I am content to let
the matter rest there II Is needless
70 add that On no other loan made by
ne and Of course on none 20 me did
the Illinois Central Railroad company
ever lose a dollar
Nor need 7 refer TO the so-caIIed IN
vzsrueur in July 1906 by Mr. Har-i-
man and his associates Of about S130.
coo 600 OF the money OF the stockholders
CT the Union Pacific il the purchase
from him and them OF their securities
which have IN the meanwhile depreeI-
ated By some So 10000 more OF less
But as the Union Pacific party has
seen 1T 10 90 back into the ancient
history Of the Illinois Central. I may
as vel say now as at another time
that nv differences with Mr. Hartman
and Charles A Peabody who were then
as Tow also directors OF the Cnion Pa