The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-30
GRAVITY TEST BILL
ENEMY is REDUkED
Sergeant at Arms Warns For.
mer Member of House
to Desist

feat the Gandrud bill requiring gravity
test for kerosene oil in the place of the
present Anticipated fire test was evil
denced in the house yesterday. Ser
geant at Arms z. d. Claggett is known
to have publicly rebuked Henry Feig.
superintendent of country elevators for
the state grain and warehouse COM
mission, for his alleged activity in the
interest of Standard Oil. Mr.. Feig
denied the charge. Speaker Ckagpe
was told OF Claggett's advice to- Mr.
Feig to keep of the legislative grass.
ard Is said to have heartily commend
ed the sergeant. !.
The superintendent of country ele-
vators Is former members of the leg
islature from Kandiyohi county. AS
such he has the freedom of the house
chamber. A member of the commit
tee on Illuminating oils, which is max
Ing an investigation of OH inspection
for Minnesota and the probable effect
OF substituting gravity test for the
flash test, complained to CIaggett that
feig was attempting to influence his
vote on the committee. The same COM
mlttee has the Gandrud bill before Il.
Mr. Feig appeared before the commit
Tee when 1t had its meeting last Friday.
he seemed anxious to testify. The
hour was late. He was told to be sure
to be present Tuesday when the in
curry would be continued. Mr.. Feig
was present Tuesday to meet the COM
mittee. but there was no meeting. The
committee met again yesterday, but he
was not in evidence.
MeDermott Before Committee
j. A. McDermott, chief oil inspector
was before the committee Yesterday
He quoted from a letter from Emil
Brauch, oil inspector for South Da-
kota, in which he said that the gravity
test there had caused a rise of from
to cents a gallon in oil, but that
better oil was furnished. A recent
agreement between South Dakota and
the Standard Oil company was to the
erect that II the state would drop the
suits pending against the company and
admit Kansas oil, it would reduce the
price cents gallon. The South Da-
kota inspector said that the reduction
had not been made. The Kansas oil
only grades AZ degrees, whereas - the
gravity test makes minimum of A..
Mr.. McDermott denied that there
was double inspection of oil under
the present system in this state. He
did not believe that the number OF
deputies should be reduced. Any re-
auction would retard inspection, espe-
cially II gasoline was made subject to
inspection. He insisted that his dep
utles were competent men and had all
taken special instruction in their work
gravity inspection would take more
time and was somewhat more difficult
TO make, but he was strongly I'm favor
OF II being installed. He denied that
there would be an Improvement in the
service * the oil inspection were put
under the dairy and food department
He said that that department now had
more than il could do. He knew of no
state where the oil inspection was not
In separate department. Mr.. McDer-
mott spoke strongly in favor of the
gasoline inspection, owing, to the great
ly increased use of gasoline.
Oil Will Cost More
II oil is required of As degrees, would
1T not be great hardship to the people
to compel them to buy it if it is to cost
cents a gallon more than the ordi-
nary article now ?" asked Edward Fam
ming of olmsted of the committee.
The oil would probably cost from
to cents more Mr.. McDermott
said, but much better article of oil
will be furnished" The chief oil in
spector told the committee that Kan
sas oil could be admitted to the state
and sold under a different label than
the oil requiring the gravity test. Pur-
chasers would know then just what
they were buying and would get what
they paid for. They would thus be
given the choice of different varieties
OF Oil.
The committee, on motion OF j. b.
Rosenthal, has requested the chemist
Of the state dairy and food commission
TO make a comparative test of the illu-
minating qualities of oils of different
qualities and report the results to the
committee.
Bills Passed by the House
II. F. No. 679: BY Observation-Disclosures
ing the organization of park boards in
villages in counties OF $50. 900 and over.
II. F. No. $40: BY Notwithstanding
TO the transfer of unused funds in the
Hennepin county municipal court TO the
law library fund.
III. F. No. 775: BY Wyman-Authoriz-
ing cities TO incorporate state lands with
in their municipal limits.
H F. No. 656: By Hayes-Allowing
cities TO have police jurisdiction over lands
of adjoining counties adjacent to their
corporate limits.
S. F. No. so: BY Dunn-Relating to the
issuance of bonds for park purposes in
cities of so 600 and over.
3. +. No. 1873: BY Dunn-Providing for
the payment of land taken by condemna
ton for park purposes in cities of $4,000
and over.
New House Bills
II. F. No $50: BY Adams-Permitting
the legal publication of synopses of pro-
posed constitutional amendments in pa
pers other than those printed in the Eng
fish language. Printing.
BADGER LEGISLATORS