The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-15
MAY PUT UP BARS
TO MOTORISTS
District Commissioners Consider.
ing Question OF Rigid Rules
for Visitors.
TAGS MAY BE REQUIRED
Virginia and Maryland Ignore
Desire for Reciprocal Ar
rangement.

,,t..,,re4on d. c.. July 14.-Al.
,ho,,ph the District Commissioners 90
NOT want to put up the pars aSaiis'
MARYLAND and Virginia autolHo JUL, ~.
IL is possible that unless the
nf tbnse two states enter into the re-
cinrocal arrangement with the Dis DIS
az columbia proposed by CoHm Us,
Rudolph for the board, there WI ne 49,
var. strict Interpretation OF tne Jaws
which govern visiting aul'itios'
the District -. ,,xiou,
10 have any visiting automopilists ar
rested for running into the Dlstrict ioi
n Few hours without Incense, ~
owing to the lack OF answers 10 two
4 letters to each Governor asking tila'
the automobile reciprocity arfahs s,
men. be put into effect between lllo
two states and the District 1t may nap.
pen that the subject VIII De pious.,
4sbone to the authorities OF Mar!laho
ana Virginia by protesting motor car
people who have been arrested mere.
REQUIRED Merely to REGISTER.
Al present the District allows Mary
land and Virginia automobiles TO come
to Washington practically at Will. Inc
owners go to the District building
give notice that they will be in town
for a few days, leave their temper
airy address and receive permission to
travel the streets of the capital. The
disposition is to invite automobile peo-
pie here. The way Commissioner Ru-
dolph expresses It, 1T is that people
with motor cars usually have money
to spend, and it is good thing for
3 community to welcome them. For
this reason the Commissioners have
encouraged visitors.
The police regulations requiring the
placing of number tags on motor
vehicles brought into the District by
tourists and other nonresidents foy
use during transient period do not
apply to those owners who have com.
piled with their own State laws and
whose cars show the State number
tag. The visitor must leave his name
and address at the District Buildinr
in the office of the secretary Of tbs
Automobile Board. the day he come,
TO town. This allows him ten DAYS
stay. AT present the stay is practi
cany stretched out to any length.
Inc visitor can run back into Mary
!and or Virginia and return to Wash
lnston and renew his registratio,
within an hour If he wants. That /,
the kind of ruling the District Com
missloners want to get from the tw,
states mentioned
Governors Ignore Letters.
Early in June Commissioner Rudoln1
was authorized by the board TO asl
Governor Crothers, of Maryland. an,
Governor Mann, OF Virginia TO alloy
District of Columbia automobiles th
same privileges in the states as tn
state automobiles are allowed here
AT present Washingtonians are no
even allowed the two exempt periods
year OF seven days each, granted b,
MARYLAND and Virginia to motorist
or other States" Beyond those the,
have 10 take out licenses in the tw,
states. The commissioners knew thu
the Legislatures OF the States had an
thorized the Governors to make recjp
rocal arrangements with other States
NO answer was received and IN,
commissioners wrote again Still n,
answer From an outside source IN,
suggestion was made to the commits
sioners that the Governors were ,r
thorized to make Arrangements viii
states, and that the District is no
considered a State.
It is probable that no more letter
VIII be written, but that strict en-
1orcement of the visiting license law
VIII be enforced In the very. near III
ture.