The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-27

LEGISLATION IS
PLEASING HERE
Work Done at Trenton So Far
Is Well Liked by Local
Motorists.

The prospects for q change for the
better in automobile legislation is now
very bright indeed, and motorists are
congratulating one another that the
main points contained in their pro-
posed amendments to the present
harsh automobile act will in all prob
ability be enacted into law during the
coming week.
The three main questions at issue,
namely. compelling all vehicles to carry
lights at night, the admission of motor
ing tourists from other States into
New Jersey without subjecting them
TO the Injustice of first obtaining a full
years license, and a speed regulation
that would permit of honest enforce
ment and eliminate the traps That have
fiourished SO extensively on our high
ways, are all in a fair way of being de-
cided in favor of the driver of the mo-
tor vehicle, and those who are In a po-
sition to know say that it is now but
a question of days before New Jersey
win turn from the ne~ar-sighted policy
heretofore pursued in automobile mat
tiers and place upon the statute books
more enlightened and just motor We
hicle laws.
Assemblyman Austen Colgate's bill
requiring all vehicles to carry lights at
night. which the New Jersey Automo-
mobile and Motor Club and other in
fiuential organizations have been work
ing for so long, passed the Assembly
this week and will be brought up In
the Senate by Senator Frelinghuysen
early next week with every prospect of
its passing that body. III this impor-
tant safeguard to users of the public
highways does become a law, New
Jersey will enjoy tho distinction of be-
ing the first State to adopt this neces-
sary and much sought-after reform.
AT the same time a bill allowing out
of-State motorists to drive their cars
in New Jersey for a limited period of
time for the nominal sum of 81 will
also. it Is expected, be favorably acted
upon.
The Bradley bill has been reported
from committee with some minor ad-
ditions and amendments and there Is
every prospect thai this measure will
also become a law. As his bill in
creases the speed limit in the open
country to twenty-five miles per hour
and practically eliminates the opera
liCh vi SIttu traps ny TtuuClilE the
fees of Justices of the peace to a small
sum, its enactment into law would be 4
long step in the right direction.
The granting of a three weeks be-
ginners' permit under the supervision
of a licensed driver. which was mad
vertently left out of the 1903 revision of
the FreliDghuysen law, has been added
to the Bradley bill. as we'll as the re-
quirement that cars should have the
exhaust pipes directed parallel to the
ground or turned slightly upward,
which was borrowed from Assembly
bill 1t9.
A prominent motorist in touch with
the situation said yesterday that If
the present plans are followed out by
the Legislature the drivers of automo-
biles will have less cause for complaint
this summer than ever before and that
under the proposed changes in the law
most of the petty an%noyances to which
motorists were heretofore subjected will
almost entirely disappear, while the
cause of irritation In reference to Wis
iting automobilists being removed, all
talk of a manufacturing boycott or re-
taliatory measures to be taken by other
states will subside and the cordial re-
lations previously existing will be re-
sumed.