Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-26
TIE Inspection OF OILS
What 1t Costs the State Of Iowa
To Have Its Oils
Tested.
Yearly 100000 Paid Annually by
the People Work Of the
Inspectors.
One Barrel In Every 2e3 Rejected
Abrams and His Anti-Saloon
Crusade.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 26.-It costs the peo-
Pile of Iowa, indirectly, a good bit of
money every year to get their oils in
spected. Last year the inspectors re-
ljected one barrel in every 263 submitted
! to them for examination, and it cost
S39,SO5 to get it done. Fourteen inspect
ors of oils divided among themselves
Sl5,2S1.50 for performing this herculean
task in behalf of the safety of life and
4 property in Iowa and particularly for
the protection of the hired girls of the
state. They used, in addition to this,
s14,4o651 in paying expenses incident to
the performance of their task
The biennial report of the oil inspect
Tors is just made public. Under the old
law there was chief inspector, with a
number of deputies. The chiefs posi-
ton was worth a one time, it is said,
more money than any other position in
the state; more than the governorship
or place in congress-in fact, it is
Isaid to have been worth twice as much
as the salary of a congressman. That
may have been an exaggerato how
ever. At any rate 1T was SO good that
the fee system was abolished and the
law, after two or three changes, has
been made to do away with the system
of having a chief and deputies. Each
inspector is his own chief, having a dis
t,.,., t,t., ~
Estate board of health and the secretary
of state. They get nothing more than
they earn in fees. Their expenses are
paid. and after that they are paid up
to fixed amount, about 500 per month,
provided they earn it. The balance goes
! into the state treasury. The new plan
! has made the oil inspection more than
! Ipay it's way, the state getting nearly
$4,000 last year.
The inspectors examined 2S2. .S97 barrels
lof oil during the year and rejected 1,07l
They report also 1O9,5s2 barrels of gaso-
. line rejected for Illuminating pur-
poses'' This sounds as If the fourteen
inspectors must have been compelled
to sweat through the heated term and
almost break their backs in winter.
Iperhaps TO work overtime and Sundays,
70 SluSsie through With sucH lfe-
linehuous Jop OF rejecting, bue eney We're
not compeAed TO 90 anything OF the
kina. y general ORDER required tnat
sasoilre couio not pe ussa ior iiiufill-
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ihe oes MONIES news mas peen at
.facting gooa deal OF attention to
itseil ol iate oy us course IN senatorial
matters. ne News mas peen putting
the Gear side OF an senatorial matters
10 the front OF late. with a zeal that
/ Mouia DO efealt TO the Bnrilngton
Hawkeye or the creston Gazette. Its
so suodenly as TO cause deal OF Won
aefEleht. Ihere are ln'lmatlons that
eile NEWS WHose ptohlpitlon prociNlties
OF iofinsr uaSs are not yer forgotten.
mas oesh ifishteneti py the stories that
VT. VT. Suiilililtis usea 20 De an enlssary
oi the rum power. lhat story Wound
seem 70 oe pretty Wen Played out. but 4
serves t,ie PURPOSES OF etood Enough
MOI san lol cailY'iisl purposes.
1 Gen. Weaver is to dictate the demo-
! cratic policy this year in the conduct
of the campaign. Chairman Huffman.
OF the state committee, says the ques-
ton of Imperialism will be pushed for
ward and made the leading issue in the
campaign The trust question will be
good one says Mr. Huffman, but
that the republicans would insist that
they are as bitterly opposed to the
trusts as We are. and would point to
the plank In their platform as evidence.
nave been around the state great
where want to see the Imperialism
business discussed and made an issue.
am con1ident We will make great gains
on II.
But the best joke on the democratic
platform IS that its liquor plank has re-
ceived the enthusiastic endorsement of
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