The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-11-26
FISH 4. .OSEE:S
ONE POINT
Ex-PREslDENT OF ILLINOIS CEN
TRIAL AGREES TO VOTING
Il MUTUAL STOCK.
is NOT IMPORTANT
Still Fighting With Hartman inter
ests in an Effort TO Secure Perma~
nent Injunction Restraining Voting
Of 2s1,1s1 Shares Of stock in the
illinois Central Meeting.

Chicago, Nov. 25.-The Mutual Life
Insurance company's interests in the
Illinois Central railroad were freed
from the operation Of the injunction
recently secured by Stuyvesant Fish
on motion of the latter's attorneys
this afternoon. The insurance COM
pany owns $500 shares OF Illinois Cen
trail stock, and with these released the
injunction now affects 26l, ,131 shares.
In making the motion to dismiss, the
attorneys for the former president OF
the railroad said: There is fair
ground under the statutes Of illinois
to hold that Life, fire and other insur-
ance companies can hold stock in such
companies for investment purposes
only, and they therefore did not care
to question any such right
Eve take this STEP" said Judge
Farrar, one of the attorneys, sin or
der to relieve the case of what we.
believe to be the only discussable
proposition in 1t, and in order to re-
duce the case to the fundamentally
different questions which arise as to
the Union Pacific Railroad company
and the Railroad Securities company"
Judge Ball granted the motion with
out prejudice to the orders issued as
to the other defendants, who include
2. Fl. Hartman, J. H. Harahan, John
Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
John W. Auchincloss, Robert w. Goe-
let, A. G. Hackstaff, Charles A. Pea
body and many others. III i
The case was called early in the
day, but Attorney Lehman informed
the court of Mr.. Fish's arrival and
asked for a postponement until after
noon in order that he might have time
to discuss the matter with his client.
Mr.. Fish and his attorneys were dis
posed to treat the matter lightly to-
night, claiming that the votes affected
by the dismissal are comparatively in
significant and that the issue as to
the other defendants will have diff
ferent outcome.
On the contrary, President Harahan
of the Illinois Central saw in the ac-
ton a confession of weakness, and
predicted that the rest of the cases
will fall in a similar manner.
Fish Makes Statement.
Mr.. Fish took advantage of his pres
ence in Chicago to give out a state
ment in answer to the demurrers,
answers and bills Of exception filed by
the defendants to the suit Saturday,
and containing charges against his
course as president of the Illinois Cen
tral.
s'These charges are vague, stale and
false, and set up to affect proxy get
ting and not to operate as a defense
in the Injunction suit" he said. .
have repeatedly answered these same
accusations, showing that Harahan,
Astor, Hackstaff, Auchincloss and
Vanderbilt, following Hartman, have
invented at least four reasons for de-
posing me from the presidency of the
road, although at that time they wrote
me letter giving me as their only
ground my refusal to elect Mr.. De
Forest director. After the loan to
which they refer had been made and
paid by me, these same men elected
me president Of the company and in
creased my salary. Their charge that
/ am trying to use my dictatorship in
the Missouri Pacific to control the ILL
nois Central is childish.