Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-17
URGES A RESPITE
PLEA OF HARTMAN
Gets Confidential With the
Newspaper Men.
TIRED OF COURT ATTACKS
Wants Them to Stop Printing Rail.
road Inquisitions.
CENTRAL MEETING
Still Standoff Between the oppos-
ing Factions-A Recess TIL
This Afternoon.
TIRED OF COURT ATTACKS
ILLINOIS CENTRAL MEETING

CHICAGO, October 1.-THE meeting Of
the stockholders of the Illinois Central
railroad adjourned until o'clock. No
vote was taken on the election of direct
ors.
When the annual meeting of the Illinois
Central stockholders reconvened today II
was evident that the prospect of a vote
on the election Of directors was small.
The proxy committee which worked for
the greater part of the night had, by
the time the meeting opened, gone only
through the letters "a and "B" and had
gotten little way into &C. At the rate
Of progress thus far made by the COM
mittee vote can hardly be reached be-
fore tomorrow. The Hartman faction
was anxious for Showdown" when IL
was evident that the vote could not be
taken Immediately. Mr.. Cromwell pro-
posed that all the proxies be submitted
to the meeting as they stood and that
test of strength be had in this way.
Rival Watchmen.
Attorney Farrar, for Mr.. Fish, objected
to this as useless, saying that II was
known that many revocations Of proxies
had been given. and that the show
down. would not be an actual test OF
strength. He contended that the method
of checking the proxies, as the commit
tee is now doing it, was the only safe and
proper way to manage the affair.
A touching expression of the mutual
confidence entertained by the warning
factions was shown last night when both
the Hartman and Fish proxies were
Central Offices Both sides promptly
placed watchmen outside the vault, and
they remained on duty until the proxy
committee called for the papers today.
Hartman Talks.
During the debate between the attorneys
that preceded the calling to order of the
meeting Mr.. Cromwell proposed again
that showdown should be had. He
asked that all the proxies of both sides
be thrown on the table In the stockhold-
ers meeting, and that the conflicting
proxies should be ruled out This would
kill off all the revocations. and the propo-
sit1on was emphatically refused by the
attorneys for Mr.. Fish.
An hour after the scheduled time the
meeting was called to order by President
Harahan, who said:
The proxy committee is not ready to
report, and We will wait few minutes
to see If it can give US anything definite
before we adjourn"
The meeting then settled down to
another period of waiting. and during
this time Mr.. Hartman pulled his chair
up to the press table and declared he
believed 1t would be an excellent thing
for the country II cooperation could
be secured between conflicting inter-
ests. without recourse to such exami-
nations as are conducted by the inter.
state commerce commission, and SINH.
lar inquisitorial bodies.
Attacks on Capital.
THE attacks on capital that have been
going on throughout the country for SO
long" he said. ARE enough to make q
man sick. The country is tired Of IL,
and the newspapers must get something
else to print, or they will not sell any
longer The thing for the parties to do is
to hold conference, with representa-
tives of the press present, and In that
manner avoid all this food OF exparts
statements. Both sides can then have
a fair hearing.
Sometimes a railroad may be techni.
cally guilty Of violation of the law when
pie of this is the over1owing of the Colo
RADIO river along the line of the Southern
Pacific railway. The government was not
inclined to take up the problem of forc-
ing the river back into its banks, and
turned the job over to US, and we paid
for 1t all.
When we came to ship material out
there, the Colorado Improvement Com
pany asked for rate on the stuff which
was to be used in damming the river.
We quoted them the same rate that the
railroad would charge against itself for
the transportation of its own material.
Technically this was a violation Of the
law. because it was a lower rate than
would be given ordinarily to other people
in the same business as the Colorado
Company. Practically, how.
ever, as we paid for everything. we were
making only the usual rate that We make
to ou selves.
Now, on a partisan statement of the
facts. that affair could be twisted into a
violation Of the law, If no exp anation was
afforded. 1t is to avoid such misconstruc-
tons as would be possible under similar
that I deplore these con-
slant Investigations. and / believe that IL
Is the newspapers of the country which
can best create healthier condition OF
public opinion
Takes q Recess.
James A. Patten of Chicago then made
a motion for an adjournment until
o'clock tomorrow morning. saying that he
understood that only 8 per cent OF the
proxies had been examined
Attorney William Nelson Cromwell, for
Mr.. Hartman. moved as N amendment
that the adjournment be taken until
D clock this. afternoon. Mr.. Cromwell's
motion prevailed.
The attendance at the meeting today
was much smaller than at the opening
session yesterday, not more than half
as many stockholders being present.
Fish Again Demonstrates.
Probably the most interesting incident
Of yesterdays meeting of Illinois Central
directors, which preceded the annual
meeting Of the stockholders, was a tilt
c. A. Peabody, pres dent of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and
Stuyvesant Fish. Mr.. Peabody is regard
ed as one of the most dignifled men in