Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — OIL INSPECTION IS AN ASSET [ARTICLE]

OIL INSPECTION IS AN ASSET

Declares Supervisor Beheyifier in His Report for Year 1916. Indianapolis Star: “I am at a loss to understand how the present oil inspection law is costing the state $125.000 a year, as charged by Republican politicians,” declared J. O. Beheymer, state supervisor of the oil inspection department, to a representative of the Star yesterday. “As a matter of fact, the operation o of the oil inspection law in Indiana during 1916 enriched the state treasury by exactly $105,865.85. I will submit such a report to Governor Goodrich tomorrow.” The report shows that $211,731.70 was collected last year by the fifty-nine oil inspectors of the state. One-half of that amount soes to the inspectors and the other half goes to the general fund of the state, according to tfie law. The supervisor draws a salary of $3,500 a year. He has one assistant at a salary 0f.5900 a year. The office expense last year was $455 50 and Mr. Beheymer’s traveling expense ■or the year was $5. The salaries and expenses were paid out of the .♦-neral fund. The $105,865.85 turned over to the state represents an advance of $14153.20 over the amount turned over in 1915. The report shows also that 1,27 <625 barrels of gasoline and 693.4 73 barrels of kerosene were inserted last, year, as compared with 988,040 barrels of gasoline and 685,841 barrels of kerosene inspected in 1915, It was said by attaches of the office that most of the revenue comes from sixteen oil companies of the state and that one company pays approximately 60 per cent of the revenue.