The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-07
AGREE ON AUTOMOBILE BILL
CALLAN REGULATION MEASURE
To M REPORTED.

Fiat PeaAIty for speedang Not 20 Exeeea
RlOO -Flrva CIAss CITIES % FIN Thelr
Own Rate sG sp~eti-NO intoxicated
Ghauieurs PrOalt1es TOF NlOlatIaR.
ALBANY. April s-Ths Assembly Com
mitts'e on Internal Affairs tonight agreed
90 meet to-morrow and report the Callan
automobile hill a. amended after a confer
ence last night which lasted until ; O'Clock
this morning and after arguments were
heard at a nesting q the committee this
afternoon. While the Legislature will not
grant all that the automobi. interests s.sex
IL 10 practically admitted that the new
bill IL the best that can be- occurred az this
session
The ball Was introduced siriy in the
session. There have been half dozen
hearings on Il. and un@ 81 the complaints
~ the automobile representatives at
tending the hearing to-day vas that the
measure had undergone too many radical
changes.
A. II. Andrews 81 the New York State
Automobil" Association. Alfred Ely Of the
Automobile Club - America. Charles
T. Terry and others appeared IN opposition
"a one or more ~ the proposed amend
ments "a tho hill They objected par
ticularly 20 tn" provision in IN. PROPOSED
Law granting the three cities ~ the first
class the right tn enact their own or
dinAnces for the regulation Of the sped
limit tn" amendments provide that
only cities ~ the SECOND class shall have a
uniform rat" II speed not exceeding
fifteen miles m hour
All - the opponents ~ this particular
claus. insisted that the Legislature should
provide a general speed limit They ar
Rusd that nobody coult tell Just what
kind Il AN ordinance the New York c,,y
Board ~ Aldermen would enact.
why. u wAs only th" other day- said
Mr.. Terry. that I defended a man in one
- the courts m IN. city ~ New York
for having a giarng light on ms auto
mobile. Asa matter ~ fact the automobile
owner in this instance had turned down
his biR acesyl-ne lights To- one-third
their normal strength a. soon a. he
reached the city limits 10 New York
But q policeman arrested him for violating
an ordinance which Was in direct conflict
With the Law Of the state, compelling the
Use 81 lights on automobiles When I
made this plain To the Judge he dis
charged the prisoner immediately
All the advocates Of the hill uRed a
reduction in the registration fe~- Mr.
Terry thought 10 should be- o.. Is and SO
instead Of the five dollar fee for cars under
IS horse power. SO for those above IS
and under a5 horSe-p power and SIS for
tho~- above n and under - horsepower
Mr. Andrews insisted that the registra-
ton f-,-s as proposed hy tho Callan hill
would brng money INTO 'he state Treas
urv faster than - could n. appropriated
for highway mAIn'enan". aud improve
ment Mr. Flv rem nd~d the committs-a
that the gutoT ohll-tS wanted all the ,
ssnzible legislation that they could get I
Lab" Others h. did not f--.i that autogno- ?
htNSfs ought - -. pat 80 the merry of III. +.
New York ROaF,I q Aldermen 20 provid..
urriIn' nr.-- he Iu=sfed that 'he tdssg II
having uniform zp.-st limit from
New OrS - Buffalo WIS th.. most logiC.l ;
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rsf1tfrust 'h- Orp'n'.u'z = the hill thar
ne - stature wa- #uslpUs 10 give the I
gfOWu. .,. pVuer- tUd Users q lIii that
- oIid 10 ~l''<f. tory 10 the largest num-
Ter and most pract ICsble lie Thought a
suggest on - Mr. NV that the critics of the.
'rs' Dls-- -. compelled 10 file with rh..
~ -starv II state CorHss q their Ortii-
p nr.- regulating sped - thai tbs. auto
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