Show WAY Vt Y ClEAR fOR fORE E n HARRIMAN Union Pacific Can Vote Stock in the Illinois Central INJUNCTION IS REFUSED DIRECTORS RECTORS DI ADJOURNED RN ED TO AWAIT COMMITTEE REPORT Chicago March 2 No business was wasI I transacted at session of the an annual annual annual nual meeting of the Illinois Central railway stockholders Fifteen minutes after J T Harahan president preside t of the corporation had called the meeting to order It was adjourned until 2 tomorrow Inability of the proxy com corn committee committee to present a complete compete report caused this action Decision Left the Way Clear The meeting was convened at noon about two and a half hours after Judge Farlin Q Ball of the superior court of or Cook C ok county had refused to issue an in n restraining the voting of or shares of or stock at the meeting This stock which is held by the Union Pa Pacific Pacific cHIc Railway company compan and the Rail Ran Railroad Railroad road Securities company was recently freed from a similar injunction by the same court before which action was waa brought The suit was not instituted instituted instituted by Stuyvesant Fish but one of his attorneys Henry W Leman in whose name the new action was begun Mr Leman asserted when the second case was filed flied Saturday that he was not seeking to delay action at the stockholders meeting but wished merely to obtain a ruling on certain legal points from the highest court Following the decision of Judge Ball today steps were taken to prosecute an appeal The case was placed on the court calendar and probably will not come up p again for several months The contention in the bill of or complaint is that a foreign corporation has no right to own and vote stock In an Illinois railroad corporation Fish on Hand About stockholders and other in interested Interested Interested persons were present when the adjourned session was begun at t noon Immediately after the reading of the minutes J J M 31 Dickinson general coun counsel counsel counsel sel for the road asked for a recess of often often often ten minutes to await wait the arrival of E ES ES ES S one one of the members of the proxy committee The latter on ar arrival arrival rival rial said sald that the committee had not completed its work and suggested an adjournment until tomorrow when he said It would be able to report Mr Ir Fish attended the meeting but took no part in the short proceedings and refused after adjournment to dis die discuss discuss cuss any of the matters which may come up tomorrow E H Harriman was not present having haYing been detained in New York by the approaching mar marriage marriage marriage of or his daughter He was represented represented represented by William Nelson Cromwell Neither John Jacob Astor nor Cornel Cornelius i ius tue Vanderbilt Yand t was present resent I |