| Show STATUS OF STEBL TRUST Proposed Investigation Under j bhio State AntlTnust LaWs Columbus 0 Aug Jl Attorney General Sheets has sent for 1 transcript Stccts cript of the telsllhioW r PreSldcnE Schwab ohd ttnftW istates SleclVor c 1 uoratlon before Ihe Industrial 1 l commission = commis-sion at WaBhJngtoiVfdrUbelnirVrb pOKQd Investigation into thAt xoncerrfs status under theSt < bteantitrust 0 Jaw lie declined to slate his plans further than thls Attorneys here think the United States Steel corporation can defy the State olllcials for the reason that It I has simply bought a majority of the stock of the constituent companies in I this State not the full properties For this reason the United States Steel corporation cor-poration Is neither n trust undor tho I Ohio laws nor 1 foreign corporation doIng do-Ing business in this State The Secretary of State will tomorrow forward to the president of the United States Steel corporation blanks similar to those sent to other foreign corporations corpora-tions doing business In the State noti fying the corporations that the State Is ready to receive the tax due It under un-der the law applying to foreign corporations cor-porations Ie the company refuses to pay trje tax suit will at once bp brought to collect I I the corpora tion consents to pay the tx It will have qualified It Is claimed merely to don legal business In the State The Secretary of State and Attorney General say they are convinced that constituent companies are doing an Illegal business In the State In that they are connected with a trust and whether the United States Steel corporation cor-poration pays the tax or not proceedIngs proceed-Ings Avlll be brought against the Ohio companies under the antitrust laws The State of Ohio has no jurisdiction over the United Stale Steel corporation corpora-tion as n whole and if the corporations corpora-tions return to the Secretary of State satisfies him that it cannot qualify to do business In Ohio it is possible that tho AttorneyGeneral of the United States and the Attorneysgeneral oral or-al States In whicli the steel l trust operates may be aakcd to bring proceedings pro-ceedings against I AttorneyGeneral Sheets admitted that such n course Is within the range of possibilities but declined to make a statement a to his I probable action |
