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Show 0 FHIENDLV SUIT FOB ILL5-FK0 Salt Lake, Dec 3 Overtures le been made by Wells Fargo & Co , express ex-press for a "friendly suit" to test tho constitutionality of Utah's corporation cor-poration license tax law. These overtures were made by local lo-cal representatives of the express company to the secretary of state, who collects the tax. Tho secretary of state referred the matter to Attorney Attor-ney General A R. Barnes, who replied. re-plied. In the language of the poet, "nothing doing." Wells Fargo & Co., and the Western West-ern Union Telegraph company have declined thus far to pay the $250 license li-cense tax. raised from 550 by the last legislature, and protest that the T7fni InTV ic 11 nnnnatit 11 f Inno 1 Ac announced In The Tribune yesterday, the attorney general gave It as his opinion that the law was constitutional constitution-al and so informed the two protesting protest-ing corporations. Firm In the conviction that the law is constitutional, the attorney general does not take kindly to the new proposal pro-posal of a "friendly" suit to have that constitutionality determined In the courts. "The courts are open to corporations corpora-tions which want to test the constitutionality constitu-tionality of the law," he said yesterday. yester-day. "The state, however, will engage en-gage in no "friendly" suits. The etate believes that the, corporation license li-cense tax Is in no wise unconstitutional unconstitu-tional and proposes to collect the tax from all corporations doing business here. If the corporation refuse to pay. we w-ill go to court about it, but hardly in a 'friendly way. Wc will not admit a question about the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the law." The corporations did not balk at paying the tax until it was increased by the state legislature this year, tho maximum being raised from S50 to $250. |