Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — Oil Bill Meets With Reversal In the Senate. [ARTICLE]

Oil Bill Meets With Reversal In the Senate.

Senator Nedjl, of Lake county, with twenty-five other democrats, voted and killed the Goodrich hill to abolish the state oil inspection department Friday amid one of the wildest scenes ever enacted in the senate. Immediately afterward, Lieut. Gov. Bush handed the Lake county criminal court bill for passage.