Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1917 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From All Over Indiana. INSPECTION METHODS ARE HIT Representatives cf Companies Fight in Federal Court for the Extension of the Restraining Order Prohibit- - ing Enforcement of Law. Indianapolis, April 27. —Attacks were made* on the method of inspection of oil under the state oil inspection law by repfesentailves of oib companies testifying in the federal court in the suit for the oil companies for the exten of the restraining order prohibiting the enforcement of the law. Richard T. Cook, secretary-treasurer of the National Refining company, asserted that in 23 years none of the oil handled by him had been condemned and that most of the oil was not inspected. He. declared that at one time two saloonkeepers—were oil inspectors in Lafayette and that one of them conducted inspection of a sample of Oil behind a cooler in his saloon.