Arizona republican., 1910-10-20
IA STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
Into Which an Attorney In
 truded Himself as Proxy Holder, Accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Suit Re lates to Car Repair Fraud.

Chicago, III, Oct 19.-The stock
 holders of the Illinois Central railroad
 company were given lively hour at
 the annal meeting today through the
 efforts of Attorney Maxwell Edgar.
 Holders representing 7S4,SS6 shares
 of stock were present. Edgar arrived. armed with the proxies of sixty shares, which enabled him to take part in
 the meeting. He was accompanied by
 deputy sheriffs who added to the con-
 fusion by serving subpoenas during
 every lull in the meeting on the vari-
 ous directors
 The subpoenas were in a suit for
 $1O000 900 which Edgar, constituting
 himself attorney for the road. start
 ed in the circuit court today The de-
 fendants in the suit are the directors hold responsible for the alleged finan-
 cial loss through the car repair
 graft" general mismanagement and
 alleged relating.
 While two deputies were making things interesting in the meeting a half dozen others guarded the exits from the Park Row building, Edgar fearing that some of the directors might attempt to evade service The precaution was superfluous.
 Three resolutions were introduced by the militant attorney. All were lost by overwhelming votes. He denounced the present management of the road, and made the charge that it's directors are incompetent and it's financial statements juggled. it's officials dis honest and violating the interstate commerce law.
 The first resolution was in support of these charges, and called for an in dependent investigation of the road by committee of prominent stock holders. He was voted down, 7S4.160 shares to 641. The second resolution demanded that all the directors who are not residents of Illinois be busted on the grounds that the constitution of the state prohibits the present proportion of outsiders on the board This resolution was voted down with out the formality of a roll call.
 OI llt ana ldSI dlltnlDl, fu- gar proposed a resolution asking that suit be brought against James Hara- han, president of the road, and the estate of the late Ira G. Rawn, who was vice president before the car repair scandal came to light, on charges of gross neglect. criminal lax ity and culpable negligence. This was buried under another avalanche 1 Of contrary vottes The actual business of the meeting was to re-elect as directors for four years J. T. Harahan of Chicago and | Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry De- l Forest of New York. In the course of | time the election was brought about. !
 With the exception of DeFOrrest, l Robert s. Lovett and Robert Goelet, | all the eastern directors were present ] and served with subpoenas. Governor Dineen, who is a director eX-officio l and attended the directors meeting, did not attend the stockholders meet ing. He is not named in the suit. The i directors were dumfounded when | Deputies Schultz and Erickson began | serving summons.
 John Jacob AstOr was seated on | one side of the room chatting with w. | l.. Parks. vice president of the road. | He looked at the paper quizzically, [ turned it over and over and read it | twice. He whispered with Parks and then accepted service Cornelius Van- | derbilt was in the center of the room when the summons was read to him. ! He stroked his VanDyke thoughtfully. | then hastened to Harahan for advice. | By that time another deputy was reading a summons to the president | of the road. Alexander Hackstaff, | Walter Luttgen and John Auchincloss ! were served in rapid succession. Og- den Armour and John Shedd of Chi | cago did not attend the meeting but | they will be served later.
 It is said that MT. Edgar has been | prominent in various reform move | n1ents. particularly in filing suits | against corporations for the collec- tion of back taxes, which he claims 1 are stirl due the state to the extent | of many millions. He asked the suit | be brought against Charles Peabody | and A. G. Hackstaff to recover bonds for s5O0O0 and s100.000, which he alleged belonged to the road. Harahan said he attached no weight to Edgar's suit.