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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDXT. FEBRUARY 31, -1903.
FISH DEFEATED
III LEGAL FIGHT
Harriman Rules Illinois Cen
tral Under Decision of
Judge Ball.
NEW SUIT TO BE BROUGHT
Control of One torKiratlon by Ah
ollirr Not Contrary lo Law Illi
nois .Central and Union racific
Are . Not Competitors.
I'MICAGO, i'eb. 20. JudRO Ball, of the
Superior Court; today dissolved the in
junction soured last October by Stuyve
sant Fish by virtue of which the Harri
man interests wers restrained from vot
ing: 2SK.S51 shares of the capital .stock of
tlie Illinois Central Railroad at the an
nual meeting of the company. The the
ory on which counsel for Mr. Fish baed
their arguments in support of the In
junction that It was contrary to the laws
and public policy of the State of Illinois
to allow foreign corporations to own and
vote the stock of donk'Stlc corporations
was denied by the court. Under the
ruling of the court tha previously en
joined stock, which is held by the tTnlon
Pacific Railroad and by the .Railroad, Se
curities Company, ftf New Jersey, can
be voted at the annual meeting of the
llllnpis Central on March 2:
There is no appeal from the decision
handed down today by Judge Ball, but
It is considered possible that Mr. Fish
will take further legal steps to regain
possession of the Illinois Central., Judge
K. B. Farrar, of New Orleans, who haa
acted as leading counsel for Mr. Fish
throughout, said today, after the ren
dering of the .decision, that the case will
now be tried on its merits, but declined
to say iiow any new proceedings will be
Instituted. -
" JIarahan Bubbles With Joy.
None of the principals In the case were
In court, both Mr. Fish and Mr. Harri
man being V New York. All the attor
neys on both sides and many other law
yers and business men were present and
tilled the courtroom. to overflowing. Presi
dent Harahan, of the Illinois Central,
came in while the decision was being
road and heard 'the latter portion of it.
AVhen the conclusion had been reached,
he said: . ' (
"My head .is too full of that decision
to allow me to say anything, but to say.
that I am highly pleased and more than
highly pleased Is putting It mildly."
judge Ball, who is of somewhat frail
physique, turned over to. his son the task
of reading the decision, which contained
almost 10,000 words. A soon as It was
concluded there was a veritable stam
pede In the courtroom, brokers, lawyers
and messengers making a rush for the
doors, in order to announce the result.
They ran into various rooms, seeking for
telenhnnes and manv tore headlong for
the. elevators, while others fled, wildly
down the stairway. Such excitement and
confusion has not been witnessed in the
county courthouse for many years,"
Fish Failed to Prove Injury.
The court declared th'at Mr. Fish" had
not been able to prove any of his con
tentions that the domination of the Illi
nois Central by Mr. Harrlman would be
to its detriment, and had also failed to
show that the interests of stockholders
would be .injured thereby. The Union
Pacific and the Illinois Central were not
competing, but connecting, and the one
could not be a commerclul rival of the
other in such a sense as to fall within
the scope of the legal decisions against
alliances between competing railroads.
The two roads, the court declared, Were
not so situated as to make It possible
tiiat they could combine to monopolize
traffic in arty section of the country.
The court further declared that, if the
name of Mr. Harriman was not a name
to conjure with, many of the allegations
made in the case would not be consid
ered seriously. He was compelled to act,
he said, on facts altered and proved, and
not supposed prophecies. The . record of
the case, lie declared, failed to substan
tiate many of the declarations made
against Mr. Harriman.
Should Ask Board to Sue.
The decision was In substance as 101
lows: It Is urged that the complainants under
the rules of equity practice should have re
quested the officers and directors of the
Illinois Central to Ming tnis eun inai uca
a request and refnsal by the corporation
are necessary prerequisites to their right to
hefCiu this action. This suit might have
been brought by the Illinois Central. Its
subject matter is one in which all the
stockholders of that corporation are equally
Interested Before a stockholder is entitled
in his own name to Institute and conduct a
litigation which usually belongs to the cor
poration he should show to the satisfaction
of the court that he called upon the direc
tors to bring the suit and their neglect or
refusal to comply with his request, or he
must show that an application to them
would have-been useless.
The bill as amended alleged that com
plainants made no application to the com
pany to bring suit, first, because they be
lieved they have the individual right as
stockholders to bring this action, and sec
ond, that it would have been idle to have
made such application, because eight of the
13 directors of the Illinois Central believe
that the t'nion Pacific and the Railroad Se
curities Company have the right to hold
and to vote the stock severally owned by
them, because three of these directors par
ticipated in the unlawful acts complained of
and five others would have been advised by
Harriman not to allow the bringing of such
a suit and would have followed such advice,
and because of the personal hostility of
eight of said 'directors to Fish they would
not have permitted- such a suit to - be
brought.
Mo Injury to Fish Probable.
The first reason given may be passed,' as
it Is & legal conclusion.- and the alleged
facts stated as the basis for the second rea
son are vigorously denied in affidavits tiled
by said elghS directors.
The only thing averred and proved in
this case as to the future actions of the
defendants Is that at .the coming election
the Union Pacific and tile Railroad Securi
ties Company will vote the stock they own
and control for the re-election of three of
the present directors, each of whom has
served the Illinois CeutrnI acceptably for
many years, and for a fourth director. In
place of Mr. Fissi. a competent man. who
is not In any way connected with the Union
pacific.
.'o act prejudicial to the Illinois Central
or to its stockholders Is shown to have been
done unless the mere fuet that the Union
Pacific and the Kailroad Securities Com
pany own 29 per cent of the slock of the
Illinois Central be considered to be so. Since
the retirement of Mr. Fish from the presi
dency the policy of the company has been
the same, and its executive officers, with
one exception, caused ' by death, have re
mained the same from that day to this. The
relations between the Union Pacific and the
Illinois Central are now what they were
when Mr. Fish was In power and assisted in
shaping and consented to such relations.
Nor is any change Intended, if the affidavits
of well-known and reputable men may be
considered as true.
Ierldes on Facts, Net Prophecy.
The bill, however, charges many things
which may happen to the detriment of the
Illinois Central and Its stockholders If the
t'nton Pacing and the Securities Company
be permitted to vote at such meeting, but
no facta are alleged or proved which even
tend to bring about such results. Courts of
equity act on facts alleged and proved, and
not on fears, or supposed prophesies. Uf it
wore not that the name of Harriman is a'
name to conjure with, these allegations
would not be taken so seriously. There are
many things stated in the bill as to the In
tention of the defendants which, if put in
force, or even attempted to be put In force,
would call. upon the court to Intervene, but
a diligent' search of the- record fails to
show that such things exist in any concrete
form. The complainants say that, if the
Union Pacific and the Securities Company
are permitted to vole at the coming elec
tion, the hold of Mr. Harriman upon and
hts domination over the Illinois Central will
be strengthened and that finally the Illinois
Central will be reduced to a subservient po
sition and will be given the lean end of
the carrying trade. But they fall to allege
and prove facts supporting these allegations.
While Mr. Fish may rightfully desire to
remain a director of the Illinois Central and
to that end may use every lawful means in
the power of himself and his friends, he has
no right to that office unless he is legally
elected thereto.- Hence his defeat. If it
comes from the lack of valid votes, is no
legal injury to the civil or property rights
of Ffsh or tbose of hia fellow complainants.
As private citizens the complainants are
not keepers of the public conscience, nor
are: they the conservators of the rights of
the public. To sustain this bill, it is not
sufficient for them to show merely that the
act complained, of is a public wrong, they
must also show that by the doing of such
act they will suffer a special injury to their
civil or property rights. This election of
directors at the coming meeting can work
no legal wrong to the complainants and no
special injury to any of them is proved
which caiia for the interposition of this
court.
Question of Public Policy.
The court then asserted that the find
ings and opinion of the Interstate Com
merce Commission are not evidence in
this . case., and declared that he had no
power to enforce the Sherman act. and
quoted numerous legal decisions in sup
port of his assertion. The decision then
continued:
There is but one ground upon which this
bill can be maintained. if the Union Pa-'
cilic has no right to buy. hold or own
either the Illinois Central or the Securities-Company,
or either of them is in
truding in this election wholly without
right, then I think bona fide stockholders,
without alleging irreparable Injury, may
ask the court to throw them or it out.
This brings us to the question. Is there
In the public policy .of this state prohibition
against the voting by a foreign corporation
of stock In a domestic corporation, which
stock it purchased and paid for and holds
under an express power granted to it by the
state of Its creation ?
The court declared that corporations per
se are not barred from using and holding
stock of other corporations, and said the
fact that the purchaser might be a for
eign corporation and the stock that of a
domestic corporation could not change
the rule of law. He said:
The reason why purchase of the stock of
the Illinois Central by the Unoion Pacific
and the Kailroad Securities are Invalid, if
they . are Invalid, must be found elsewhere
than in the fact that they are foreign
corporations. , f
Corporations May Own One Another
The court denied that there, is any rule
of the American common law prohibiting
one corporation from holding stock in
another corporation when the first cor
poration has in its charter specific power
to- do so. In this case, he said, it was
proved and not denied that the Union
Pacific and' the Railroad Securities Com
pany each - has express power granted to
it by the state of Its creation to buy,
own and hold stock in other . corpora
tions. The court then entered upon a long and
extensive discussion of various statutes
regarding tlie holding of stock by corpo
rations in other corporations, declaring
finally that such holdings are not pro
hibited by law nor opposed to the public
policy.. He then said:. - . .
The right of the' Railroad Securities Com
pany to vote fts Illinois Central stock is
unimpaired by the fact that the Union Pa
cific owns practically all of Its stock. So
long as the voting power of the Securities
Company is used in a lawful manner and
for lawful purposes, it Is Immaterial who
owns its stoclft
The decision further declared that the
Union Pacific and the Illinois Central are
not competing, but connecting lines, and
that the Union Pacific, under its charter,,
and the. laws of Utah, has a clear right
to own shares of stock of Illinois Central
which It purchased in 1906, and that it has
the essential right to vote that stock at
meetings of the stockholders of the Illi
nois Central, unless .the right is forbidden
by the laws or public policy of Illinois.
The court said in conclusion on this sub
ject: "Such prohibition does not exist un
less it affirmatively appears. It is not
established by the mere lack of legis
lation upon that subject."
Not Controlled by V. P.
In concluding his decision. Judge
Ball said:
The usual office of a preliminary Injunc
tion Is to continue the status quo until the
final hearing. To sustain this preliminary
injunction and thus to prevent the Union
Pacific and the Railroad Securities Com
pany from voting their stock at the coming
election will be to change the status quo
before the right of these corporations to
own and vote such stock haa been fully
and finally determined by the court. With
those conditions barred out. the meeting
might result in an entire change in the
.management of the Illinois Central. To dis
solve the Injunction and let the action ot
the court In regard to the ownership and
voting power of this stock await the final
bearing, means no more than the continu
ance of the present management with the
change of one director only -and he. eight
of the director defendants swear, will be
an able, competent man, neither controlled
nor connected by or with the Union Pa
cific. The balance of convenience and, in
convenience is clearly with the defendants.
I am of the opinion that the defendant
company and the Union Pacific have owner
ship of, the shares of stock they hold in
Illinois Central. Including the right to vote
that stock at the coming meeting of stock
holders, and that such right to . vote is
not forbidden by the statutes of this state
or by the decisions of our Supreme Court,
not by the public policy of Illinois.
The motion to dissolve the injunction is
allowed.
AVhat AH Fus9 Is About.
Mr. Fish," who wae formerly president
of the Illinois Central, filed a bill on Oc
tober 14, 1907, asked that 2S6.2S3 shares
of Illinois Central stock owned by the
Union Pacific Railroad i Company,' the
Railroad Securities Company and the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company of New
York, be enjoined from being voted at
the annual meeting of the railway com
pany set for October 16. Judge Ball is
sued a temporary restraining order.
Mr. Fish was joined in his suit by
ex-Senator George F. Edmunds, of Ver
mont, John A. Kasson, ex-Minister to
Austria, and by William H. Emrich.
The bill alleged that the defendants had
held a part of the outstanding stock of
the railroad company. Mr. Fish averred
that the board of directors was dom
inated by H H. Harriman. and said the
voting of this stock should not be al
lowed, as it would injure the interests of
himself and other stockholders.
, On -November 25 last the complainants
dismissed tlieir bill insofar as it related to
the 5000 shares of stock held toy the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company. The de
fendants then presented a motion to dis
solve the temporary injunction. The de
cision of Judge Ball today was on this
motion.
The bill originally filed by Mr. Fish
was based on the theory that the. pub
lic policy act of Illinois prohibits for
eign corporations from holding Und
voting stock in Illinois corporations
save in exceptions allowed by statute.
The complainants contended that the
fact that certain exceptions are allowed
by statute proved, that the public policy
act should hold good In this instance.
Fish Xot Ready to Talt.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20. At the office
of Stuyvesant Fish it was said that
Mr. Fish would" make no comment on
the Illinois Centra'l case until he had
seen the text of the decision.
ES
WILL HOT" BE CUT
Groundless Fear in Financial
Circles That Lines Contem
plate General Reduction..
RUMOR CAUSE OF STIR
While Old. Scale In Operating De
partments May Be Applied, the"
Roads Are Not Planning
Any Concerted Action.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. Industrial and
financial circles have been more or les
concerned today over what they regard
as a prospect that the railroads of the
country have in contemplation a general
reduction in the wages of their employes.
Such apprehension is practlcaly ground
less. Information which has reashed the
Interstate Commerce Commission par
ticularly, and other officials of the Gov
ernment who have a direct or indirect
interest in industrial and railway mat
ters Indicates clearly that there is no
concerted action on the part of Ameri
can railways to make general changes in
their wage scales at this time or in the
near future, - Instances of proposed re
adjustment of wage scales are cited in
the cases of three or four Southern sys
tems. Return to Former Scale.
The proposition in a general way will
be to return to the wage scales which
were in force about a year ago, at which
time general advances in the pay of men
In the operating departments of the rail
roads throughout the country were made.
What conclusions may be reached Jt is
not possible now definitely to foretell.
Assurances have been given by the rail
way officials that they have no disposi
tion to impose any hardship upon their
employes, and they will not do so.
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, who, by the op
eration of the so-called Erdman law, is
made one of the two members of a
board of mediation Professor Charles P.
Neill, Commissioner of Labor, being the
other In accordance with the suggestion
contained In President Roosevelt's letter
to the Commission, respecting the railroad
wage question, is holding hlrnself in readi
ness to act under the law whenever he
may be called upon by one or the other
of the parties to any wage controversy.
Xo Action Now Possible.
' Pending direct application by one party
or the other to any question in dispute.
Chairman Knapp' explained that practi
cally nothing could be done.
While some railroads have suffered
during the past few months from a fall
ing off of business, the Tecords shown
in the reports of operation received by
the Interstate Commerce Commission In
dicate no large or very general Teductlon
in revenues. On account of the financial
stringency during the Autumn and. early
weeks of Winter, some curtailment of
construction work wjas made, but that
work, which is in a "measure continuing,
will be resumed in a majority of in
stances at the opening of Spring.
COAST VESSEL'S ARE TIED UP
San Francisco Lumber Traffic Para
lyzed by Jjabor Troubles.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. The fight
between the Marine Engineers' Associa
tion and the steam schooner-owners, of
San Francisco, is now on in dead earnest,
the committee which controls 90 per cent
of the total number of steam vessels
carrying lumber to and from this port,
and other ports on the Pacific Coast
having today decided to lay up every one
of these vessels with the exception, of
the steam schooner Westport, which will
carry foodstuffs exclusively to Crescent
City.
The committee of the engineers pre
sented its communication to the com
mittee of owners this morning, refusing
to meet the terms of the ultimatum pre
sented by the owners. After being In ses
sion nearly all day in the office of the
Hammond Lumber Company, the owners
committee decided to lay oft the vessels.
Five steam schooners which were
scheduled to sail today were taken over
to Oakland Creek and tied up and the
crews discharged. As fast as the vessels
reach this port and their cargoes are
discharged they will be laid up.
Nearly 1000 men In all will be affected
by the action of the' owners and 1,500,000
feet of lumber a week will cease to be
handled through this port. The effect
will be. It is thought, to cause an increase
in the price of lumber In all points along
the Coast.
The Westport cleared tonight for
Crescent City, by agreement between the
contending parties, telegrams having been
received from there today to the effect
that serious results would follow if all
vessels are taken off as there are no
other means of getting In supplies.
Forced to Continue Strike.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. About
135 cigarmakers went on strike yester
day, owing to a grievance against NIc
olo Venezla, assistant foreman of the
factory. Venezla resigned and the
cigarmakers wanted to call the strike
off, but the employers, anticipating a
strike, ceased preparing material for
work, so as to avoid loss by damage to
the stock, and the men will remain out
for a couple of days before they can
resume their work.
Santa Fe Closes Topeka Shops.
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 20. The Santa Fe
railroad shops at this point will not open
tomorrow morning for work. The offi
cials say the closing down will only be
temporary, perhaps until Monday. This
means the throwing out of employment
or 2U0O men. Lade of work and the finan
cial stringency are given as the causes.
Limits Coal-Miners' Hours.
LONDON. Feb. 20. The government
bill limiting the working hours of coal
miners to eight hours was introduced
In the House of Commons today by
Herbert John Gladstone, Home Secre
tary. It at once passed its first read
ing. PRESSES WILFLEY CHARGE
House Committee to Act on Impeach
ment Petition.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.-In the House
today, Waldo, of New York, made a de
mand for the impeachment of Judge L. R.
Wilfley. of the United States Court for
China- at Shanghai. He presented and
read" articles of impeachment.
Following the reading of the charges,
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Waldo called up his resolution of Im
peachment introduced yesterday, which
accuses Judge Wilfley of malicious and
corrupt conduct in office and of high
crimes and misdemeanor.
The resolutions were referred to the
committee on Judiciary with Instructions
to report to the House 10 days hence, by
resolution or otherwise, what, if any,
further proceedings should be taken in
the matter.
Report Against Gardner Bill.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. The House
committee on labor is Bearing a report
on the Gardner bill to enforce observance
of an eight-hour day in all Government
work. It is believed a majority will re
port adversely.
Speyer Confers AVlth President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. James Speyer,
the New York banker, today had a long
cenferenoe with the President on business
conditions. He declined to discuss the de
tails of the interview.
Taft Busy at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Secretary
Taft returned this morning in time to ap
pear before the House committee on in
sular affairs. A canal conference engaged
the attention of the Secretary later in
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the day at the White House. The ac
cumulation of official matters was then
considered by Mr. Taft.
FIGHT INTIA?T IIQCOR SALE
Money Included In Bill Framed by
Committee.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. The Senate
committee on Indian affairs today con
tinued its consideration of the Indian ap
propriation bill but the report will not be
concluded before next week. Among
the amendments adopted were:
. increasing from $25,000 to $40,000 the ap
propriation for suppression of the traffic
in intoxicating liquors among the Indians;
making an appropriation for agricultural
experiments, to send a special agent to
negotiate with various tribes with a view
to the commutation of perpetual annui
ties; authorizing the Secretary of- the
Treasury to expend $30,000 for the pur
chase of agricultural lands and irrigation
of them for the use of Indians in Cali
fornia '
Fulton Confers With Bonaparte.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington,, Feb. 20. Senators Fulton and
Bourne and the 'Department of Justice of
ficials assert they know nothing of the
Oregon District Attorneyship status. Sen
ator Fulton was a caller on Attorney-
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General Bonaparte today, tout sas the
Attorneyship matter was not mentioned,
the interview referring only to Senator
Fulton's resolution authorizing suit to be
brought against land-grant railroads,
which he will attempt to have passed to
morrow. Way of Escape for Chittenden.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Feb. 20. The General Land Office
officials state they anticipate that the
suit brought against Major Hiram M.
Chittenden, of Seattle, for alleged fraud
in obtaining patent for coal lands will be
dnopped by the Department of Justice.
The records in the case show that Chlt
temden sold his Interest In the entry sub
sequent to making the original declara
tory statement, and if the decisions of
Judigie Lewis in the Colorado coal cases
and the Supreme Court in the-Williamson
case, are followed, Chittenden will not be
held ,to have committed a violation of the
law. ,
Make Alaska a Territory.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ' M.A bill was
today- introduced by Cale, delegate from
Alaska,, to establish a territorial govern
ment in Alaska.
May Bridge Two Itivers.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
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REMODELING AND REPAIRING OF FURS AT GREAT REDUCTIONS.
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ington, Feb. 20. Secretary Garfield has
drafted a bill for two bridges across the
Warm Springs Rjver on the reservation
and the Deschutes River, to cost JoOOO, the
tolls to be collected Iron users.
BECKER TO CONDUCT FIGHT
Will Prosecute Suit to Recover the
Southern Pacific Land Grant.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Feb. 20. The Attorney-General
has not yet fully decided how the land
grant suit against the Oregon & California
Railroad Company will be prosecuted, but
it is his present intention to place Tracey
C. Becker in charge, and It is quite prob
able that B. D. Townsend will be desig
nated as special representative of the Attorney-General
to collaborate with Mr.
Becker, though this plan has not been
Slaughter on United Railroads.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. Cash
fares collected by the United Railroads
during the years 1907 numbered 94,
695,079, and transfers collected 57.736,
066, according to a statement tiled with
the Board of Supervisors b.y General
Manager Black today. The report also
noted that 3131 persons were Injured
on the cars during the half year, and
80 deaths were caused by accidents.
TD ...
$27.50
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