Show SEEKS TO CHANGE OIL regulations according to the daily papers local oil men are displaying considerable interest in senate bill no introduced by senator smoot to checkmate the ruling of the depart jentof the interior providing that where commercial oil is discovered on land embraced in a prospecting permit granted under the oil leasing act other applications which have haire been filed for prospecting permits on lands on the same structure and not granted prior to the discovery of oil shall be immediately rejected senator smoots bill an amendment to an act of february 25 1920 entitled an act to promote the mining of coal phosphate oil oil shale gas and sodium on the public domain provides that where commercial oil is proven in a structure unapproved applications for prospecting permits on the same dome shall not in any way be affected since the recent ruling of the department of the interior regarding the amount of territory which should be regarded as proven when oil was struck in a structure local oil men have been much perturbed the substance of senator smoots bill is as follows be it by the senate and house of representatives of the united states of america in coh congress gress assembled that the designation of any lands of the united states or deposits of oil or gas owned by the united states as being within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field shall not defeat or require the rejection of any for a prospecting permit under section 13 of the act of congress approved february 25 1920 filed in the proper united states land office prior to such designation and prior to discovery of oil or gas on the structure but such applications may it if otherwise required be approve approved d notwithstanding th f standing A ithe e desiena designation tion |