Show FISH COMES OUT OUTON OUTON ON TOP OF HEAP HP Deposed President of the Illi Illinois illinois nois Central Has More Votes Than E H Harriman I LEGAL FIGHT NOW CERTAIN STOCKHOLDERS MEETING POST POSTPONED POSTPONED POSTPONED TO DEC 18 Chicago Oct 21 Stuyvesant Fish early today secured a postponement of ot the Illi 1111 Illinois Illinois nois Central stockholders meeting until December The Harriman people agreed to the adjournment although they had previously been anxious to push matters matt rs as rapidly as possible The decision to adjourn the meeting was the result of ot a conference held at 3 this morning between Nelson Cromwell for Mr Harriman and Judge E II H Farrar for Cor Mr Fish The over overtures overtures overtures tures came from Mr 11 Cromwell who sought out the Wish Fish people and declared that he wished to come 10 io 0 some sort of an agreement He was Informed by hy Judge Farrar Farar that the only agreement that could be reached was to accept the terms of Mr 11 Fish which would be the adjourn adjournment adjournment adjournment ment until December 18 IS and a decision of ot court If the HarrIman people so de decided decIded decided to determine the right to vote yote the shares of ot stock against which a temporary Injunction was issued by Ju Judge Hall one week ago After an ed conference Mr 11 Cromwell assented Text of The following agreement was signed by Mr Cromwell and Judge Farrar We Ve recognize that the numerous and complicated legal questions at issue will Inevitably prolong the meeting for a con considerable considerable considerable period and that no official de determination determination determination termination by the inspectors or tellers as us to the shares of stock represented In person and by proxy at said meeting m has yet been reached In the Interest of the company compan and its stockholders at large we consider it best to postpone the meeting to December IS and we agree In behalf of the interests we respectively represent that they ther shall vote yote for tor such adjournment when the meet meetIng mEetIng meeting Ing convenes on the InsL without any an reports being received or other business being transacted or any an determination of the Inspectors Fish Has Most Votes The proxy committee has nearly fin finished finIshed finIshed its work It Is believed that the total number of ot votes to reported be will willbe willbe willbe be not far from Of Ot these Mr Ir Fish according to excellent authority controls about and Mr 11 Harriman and it was evident that Mr Ir Har Harriman Harriman Harriman riman Is beaten unless he lie can call ui bring Into the contest some portion of the shares now temporarily enjoined from voting Mr Fish sat upon a table in his rooms at the Auditorium Annex swinging his feet like a 1 boy bo and evidently In the highest good humor He declined to talk for tor publication but said fald he lie had secured everything lie wanted Neither he nor his attorneys would make any statement as to the original ori nal propositions advanced by Mr Cromwell II although they the declared that they the were different from the agree agreement agreement agreement ment finally signed Judge Farrar said Up to Harriman The Tho situation Is now entirely ut tiTi to Mr lIt Harriman and his attorneys Whether hether they the will fight the temporary temporal Injunction in the courts is for tor them thorn to decide I have not the most remote Idea regarding their intentions However if it they the do not take action and fight the thing out in the courts before December 18 the injunction will stand and no portion of ot the shares can be voted Statement of Mr Fish Mr Ir Fish gave out a statement tonight In which he claims to have hae had a ma majority majority majority of from thirty to fifty thousand when the count of proxies was abandoned The statement says sas Our victory Is most gratifying and andreal andreal andreal real The best we could have hoped for lor under Judge Balls Bairs modification of his or order order order der was to prevent an election of ot directors at this time This has not only been ac accomplished accomplished but we have also secured a definite adjournment until December 18 IS When hen on Saturday It became apparent to the Union Pacific party that our ma majority majority was so large that they the could not win even if they secured every remain remaining remainIng ing proxy their tactics for prolonging the session of ot the stockholders meeting from I Ida day da to da day became apparent Late Sat Saturday Saturday I night realizing that the best inter interests Interests interests ests of oC the Illinois Central demanded that the present session should be closed 1 1 authorized the making of an agreement between which speaks for Itself The agreement to adjourn gives me all that 1 could have hae gained by b using the preponderance of o my m votes otos and constitutes constitutes constitutes an acknowledgment by the Harri Harriman Harriman Harriman man party part of their failure to now elect directors for tor It If they held more proxies than I they would not have av agreed ee u to an out utu nave elected their directors tomorrow and end ended ended ended ed the struggle Has Clear Cl ar Majority During the process of at the official tally I f consistently refrained from giving out outI I figures through fear tear of ot misleading the public The official count having been completed and being now closed until December 18 1 I can say with regard to it that my m information justifies the statement that so far as made it leaves me ipe e with a clear and certain major majority majority ity It of somewhere between and votes which In view of ot the Union Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific party having hunted for proxies for two months before I mailed my m circular of ot September 21 Is most satisfactory From now on I shall pursue my m quest for proxies with greater vigor and for better Information than ever before betor feel Ceel feeling feeling ing sure of the support of the tue Investing public who s pre are re Interested preserving In the independence of at the tue Illinois Central Centra |