Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-30
NEW YORK CONFERENCE
FOR AUTO PRIVILEGES
U. S. Government to Be Repre-
scented in Meeting as to
What States Will Do

A conference will be held within the
next month in New York city to dis
cuss the question of uniform non-resi-
dent provisions in the automobile laws
of all the eastern states. Governor
Horace White of New York has been
invited as the guest of honor. Secre-
tary of State Koenig, Attorney General
O'Malley and Assemblyman Callan
will be present to explain the recog-
milton in the new Callan automobile
law of reciprocal privileges granted
by other states to non-residents. From
all the New England states as we'll as
the Atlantic coast states south of New
York the executive officers having
jurisdiction in automobile matters as
well as the highway commissioners
will be invited. Logan Waller Page,
director of the office of public roads OF
the department of agriculture, has
promised to attend.
This conference is being arranged by
the Touring Club of America as the
result of a widespread sentiment
among eastern motorists that all the
states. whatever their individual motor
regulations may be, should adopt a
uniform system of interstate touring
privileges, including uniform methods
of identification.
Since the enactment of the Callan
automobile law and the discussion
aroused over the privileges granted to
motor tourists from other states this
entire question has assumed greater
prominence than ever before, and
many of the various state officials have
not hesitated to indorse the benefits
of uniform nonresident provision.
The new York law. in brief, under
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ley, grants to non-residents the same
privileges in lew York that other
states grant to New York motorists.
Frederick II. Elliott, secretary of
the Touring Club of America. who has
been a strong advocate of uniformity
as regards interstate touring, sums up
the situation as follows:
81 believe that there is only one
solution Of the interstate regulation
governing the operation of motor We
hicles, and that is to have each state
adopt a nonresident provision which
will be uniform. so that the motorist,
after complying with the law of his
own state. can tour in any state he
may choose without any restrictions
as to time or requiring further regis
tration or Identification of his car In
other words, each state to give alb
solute freedom to the motorists OF
other states, providing they have COM
piled with their state law"
So many opinions favorable to this
view have been received at the Tour
ing Club of America that the con-
ference of state and automobile Of
ficials, which will be called about the
middle Of November, has been decided
upon as the first step to inaugurate an
interstate campaign for uniform non
resident provisions Indeed, an as
sociation dealing not only with matters
of home regulation hut looking abroad
for official recognition from the great
foreign bodies of international touring
privileges.
Secretary of State N. Winslow Will
liams of Maryland, after expressing his
sympathy in the desire for non-resi-
dent provisions, said: ST wish to as
sure you that 1 shall do everything in
my power to introduce in the next
session of the legislature the amend
ments necessary to conform to the
Callan automobile law"
Secretary of State w. P. Smithers
of Delaware strongly urged the adop-
ton of a uniform nonresident pro-
vision in all the eastern states. Sec
rotary of State A. l. Brown If b-aine
in voicing his agreement pointed out
that such step would eliminate many
unpleasant conditions which now exist.
Favorable replies have also been re-
ceived by Secretary Elliott from the
officials of Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts.
Col. William D. Sohier of the Massa-
chusetts highway commission in a re-
cent letter on this subject stated that
he was sent to New York by Governor
Draper TO secure a further interpreta-
ton of the attorney generals opinion
regarding the entrance of non-residents
in New York state without registering
their cars for the same length Of time
al resident of New York are allowed
to tour in other states. you will find
in many instances" he says, that
people actually do stay two or three
months at Lenox, Pittsfield and Stock
bridge without registering, although
do not believe this should be all
lowed.
What we want are laws that will
work we'll in practice. Our ten-day pro-
vision practically allows free touring.
We rive non-residents half fees for
three months and half fees after Or
tober /. and this seems to me emil
nently fair, as it did to all the repre-
sentatives of the New England states. ;"