The methods covered by the general phrases of the Minnesota Senate Committee were described in detail by a "commissioner" of the Omaha _Daily Bee_, which found the same things being done in Nebraska. The _Bee_ in 1891 made an elaborate investigation of the manner in which the oil inspection of Nebraska was executed. Its reporter passed incognito by the guardians of the portals of the warehouse of companies belonging to the oil trust in Omaha, and stood by while barrels were filled with uninspected oil and loaded on the cars for shipment to various points. That the people who bought the oil might know their lives were safe, each barrel bore the brand of approval provided by law, as follows: Approved. Flash Test 105° ........................... _State Inspector of Nebraska_. By ........................ _Deputy_. But there was no inspector present, and the barrels were all branded beforehand and while empty, in defiance of the law and public safety. The reporter stayed until the cars were loaded, the doors closed, and saw the trains pull out. It is from this warehouse that the greater part of the barrelled oil consumed in Nebraska is forwarded. At the warehouse of the same company in Nebraska City the reporter found the same thing going on, and there, too, he found the official stencil-plates of several of the State oil inspectors lying at hand on the tanks, waiting to be used at the pleasure of the employés of the company to brand the desired government guarantee on any oil, regardless of what it was. The Illinois _State Journal_ found the same practice permitted in Springfield by the oil inspector in February, 1894. The _Bee_ reporter describes how tanks, once branded, came and went, were filled and emptied and filled again for months, with no inspection of the oil in them. Often the tanks were not even branded.