Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
FISH LAYS
BLAME ON
HARTMAN
SAYS He WILL GUST MAGNATE
FROM DIRECTORATE
Former Head Of the Illinois Central
Scores Opponents and Accuses
Them Of Breaking
Faith

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. 1s.-"lf l obtain ma
iority Of the rroxies to be voted at the
annual ueeting of the Illinois Centra
railroad l shall depose Edward II. Har'
riman as Director declared Stuyvesan'
Fish in an affidavit filed today before
the superior court.
He also declared in the affidavit: "Tc
evervhodv the country the removal oi
srch an Individual as Hartman is shown
to be would be welcome sign OF return
inx morality in the management of great
corporations of the country
Mr. Fish reiterated the statement tnat
Mr. Hartman is seeking to control the
Illinois Central in the interest OF the
Union Pacific.
Mr. Fish, in his affidavit, which Is a
reply to one filed yesterday in the name
Of Mr.. Hartman and other directors OF
the Illinois Central, declares that he has
been beneeactor of j. T. Harahan, now
president of tho Illinois Central He as
serts that he saved Harahan from dis
nlissal several years ago when Hartman
and George A. Peabody declared that
lIarahan had outlived his usefulness to
the company.
5Ianes Hartman
Mr.. Fish sets forth that there was per-
feet harmony in the company until the
winter of 1s04-5, when Hartman and
Peabody sought the establishment of an
executive committee to which discretion
ary powers were to be delegated He de-
clares in the affidavit that he incurred
additional enmity when he refused to be-
come parts- to a report whitewasning
the officials of the Mutual Life lnsur-
ance company.
The assertion is also made that Harri-
man and Peabody broke faith with Fish
in 1905, when they agreed that man in
dependent OF aIy faction was to be elected
to the directorate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of William Grinnell
Hartman, he says, attempted to secure
the election of Henry w. De Forest, an
attorney of Mr. Hartman, who was also
a director of the Southern Pacific, which
is dominated by the Union Pacific.
Mr.. Fish declared that since 1877 it had
been the custom of the railroad to loan
its idle funds to officers of the railroads
or to firms in which they were members,
or to corporations of which they were
officers Mr.. Fish insists that Hartman
and Peabody were among those who took
advantage of the custom of the country
He declares that all of his loans were
recorded on the books of the company
and that the collateral was good and
sufficient.
Says Charges Are Untrue
Mr.. Fish charges that the accusations
of mismanagement made against him are
untrue
After the reading of the Fish affidavit,
the formal arguments against making
permanent the injunction obtained last
October by Mr.. Fish. restraining the vot-
ing of stock held by the Union Pacific
and by the Railroad Securities company,
were commenced.
Attorney John r. Herrick opened for
Mr.. Hartman He declared the statutes
OF Illinois do not prohibit the acquire
ment or exchange of stock by connecting
railroads, and that the holding of Illinois
Central stock by the Union Pacific is
not Illegal.
He also asserted that Mr.. Fish had pro-
duced no facts to substantiate his alle-
cations that his removal from the presi-
dency of the Illinois Central had ensued
because he opposed the election of De
Forest as a director.
Attofnev Herrick continued his argu-
ment against the injunction throughout
the afternoon.