Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-27
NO TROUBLE EXPECTED
AT TRENTON IN SERVING
STEEL SUIT SUBPOENAS.

TRENTON, Oct. 27.-The
which have heretofore beset process
servers seeking John D.. Rockefeller
and other ~millionaires named as de-
PENDANTS in the dissolution suit filed
against the United States Steel Cor
poration, were not expected to develop
today in the service of subpoenas Is
sued in the suit. The opinion prevailed
at the United States marshais office
here hat the corporations lawyers
probably would accept service in New
York of the entire batch of ~subpoenas.
The drafting of subposnas was the
first task of Henry Oliphant, clerk of
the United States Circuit Court. upon
opening his office at 10 o'clock today.
Deputy marshals took h documents
as fast as they were prepared. They
require the defendants to appear In
person or by counsel at Trenton on
December 4 in answer to the petition.
Actual presentation and prosecution
OF the suit probably will be the work
of Attorney-General Wickersham and
his assistants at Washington,
1t is known that a copy of the petit
ton was served on Judge Gary at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York
last night. This service is not part
of the necessary legal procedure in the
suit, but is really a matter of courtesy
to the defendants. 1t is the subpoenas
that the will bring the defendants into
court. Following the return day, De-
cember 4, when the defendants must
put in an appearance by counsel, they
have until the first Monday in anuar
to put in their swe to the charges
set forth in the government petition.
The government probably will make
q reply, and then, IL the procedure of
trust prosecutions is followed, the court
will appoint an examiner to take tes-
timony. The examiner may sit in any
city convenient to the governments at
torneys n the defendants witnesses.
In view of the fact that most of the
defendants live in New York, n most
of the papers and documents of the cor
porations are in vaults there, most of
the hearings may take place in that
city.
After all testimony is in, argument
will be heard by the full Circuit Court
bench probably in Philadelphia, where
the full bench of the third judicial cir
cult usually sits.
Numerous Concerns Affected.
After enuTnerating the individual and
-ScSSffDorate defendants against whom the
action is directed the petition of the
Attorney General described conditions
In the Steel business prior to the on
s%olidation which took place from 1898
to 1900.
The petition then describes In detail
the consultations affected by the va
rious groups of plants going to max
up the larger subsidiary companies
finally absorbed by the United States
Steel Corporation. These included the
Federal Steel Company. the Carnegie
Company, of New Jersey; American
Steel and Wire Company, of New Jer-
sey; National Tube Company. National
Steel Company. American Tin Plate
Company, American Steel Hoop Com
pany and American Sheet Steel Com
IA
After the incorporation of the United
States Steel Corporation on April l.
1901, the petition shows that 1t acquired
practically all of the capital stock of
twenty other large corporations, all of
which are named as defendants. These
corporations had a capitalization of
s1,4O2, $780, 17. The Steel Corporation
was formed with an authorized capital
of 81, 900, 900, 900, divided equally between
common and preferred stock.
The government alleges the existence
of the numerous pools and agreements
by which it is charged that the de-
PENDANTS sought to suppress competi-
ton. maintain prices and restrain COM
merce and trade among the States and
with foreign countries. 1t then de-
scribes the system of "interlocking di-
rectorates," by which, it is charged,
the control of the corporation over
the business of the country was ex-