Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-21
DISCUSS GIL INSPEC TION.
Professor ladd BabcOck and Sheppard Confer With Gov.
eInOf Burke IN Relation to the New Oil Bill
Which He Has Not Yet Signed

There was a discussion Of the new
oil inspection bill before Governor
Burke this morning by Prof. p. r.
Ladd Of the agricultural college,
Prof. Babcock Of South Dakota, with
respect to the tests provided for in
the new law and the kind of oil it
would admit to the state. The new
oil bill reduces the test for specific
gravity for the purpose OF permitting
the Introduction Of Kansas and
western oils into the state The
question raised by the governor was
whether this lowering Of the test
inferior oils, and 1t was to obtain
facts in this regard that the persons
named were summoned.
The three officials who appeared
before the governor agreed that the
change in the test would not permit
the Introduction of inferior oils, and
that the Kansas oils, which would
be permitted to come under the new
law, were equal to and even superior
to eastern oils for Illuminating pur-
poses. Plates of photometrfc test
Of the Kansas oils and Of other oils
were presented to. the governor,
showing a better test for the Kansas
oils than for any other oil inspected.
1t was the opinion Of the three Of
ficials who appeared that. the gravity
test was not SO important as other
tests and that where the Kansas
oils came up to the other tests re-
quired, the lowering Of the gravity
Test was not dangerous to the quality
of oils to be intro duced.
A plate Of the photometric test
presented showed that a Kansas oil,
numbered 213, burned with a candle
power of II for period Of eight
hours without decrease in brilliancy
until the oil was entirely consumed.
/ "a second oil, Perfection Standard
Oil, No. 203,. burned with candle
power Of IL for about four and a
1 half hours and then gradually de
creased in brilliancy until at the
end of six hours the candle power
was little more than 10, and al
the end of eight hours was only
burned at II candle power for three
i hours and then gradually decreased
IN brilliancy until at the end Of eigh,
hours 1t burned with a candle power
Of only eight. Other tests were made
with oils Of lower grade and the
best record throughout the test N
The governor expressed himself as
Satisfied at the end Of the interview
that the Kansas oils coull be adj
mitted without danger to the quail
ity Of oils sold in the state and that
the tests provided for in the new
law were sufficient. He objects to
! the provision Of the law with refer
1 ence to gasoline. There is one pro
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vision of the law that states that ali
gasoline testing 6S BAUM, shall be
colored red and another provision
admitting Kansas gasoline testing
So Baum, that makes no require
ment for the red coloring The
governor stated today that he feared
the impression would prevail that
all gasoline shrould be colored red
and that the white gasoline would
be a source Of continual danger thro
care lessness Of persons handling the
explosive, This is the particular
feature Of the bill to which the gov
enor objects and he stated this after
| noon that he had not decided as to
his final action on the OIL bill.