The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04
DEALERS OBJECT
 TO REGISTRATION
Hot Meeting Over Proposed
 Auto Bills
Public Records of Garage Patronage a Hardship Definition of Auto Dealer Wanted.

Tuesday Is automobile day at the state capitol and the autoists are get ting ready for it. The Hartford Auto mobile Dealers Association had an animated meeting last night. The cause of all the excitement is long list of bills concerning automobiles hich will be considered by the com mittee on roads. rivers and bridges, at a hearing at o'clock Tuesday after noon.
 On Tuesday, at II o'clock in the morning, there will be a meeting of the directors of the Connecticut Au- tomobile Association.
 The session last night was a meet ing of dealers, only. It was lively one from start to finish. One of the difficulties being met with in draw ing up an automobile bill is good definitioi- of a dealer. The various draft what he thinks is a good de- finition.
 A custom has grown up in the state of a person procuring a dealers .i- cense for personal reasons only, with no idea of becoming a bona fide deal- er He makes a few sales to his friends, but has no permanent place of business. It is this kind of dealer that the bona fide dealers do not like and they also are apt to be trans gressors of the law. What the deal- CTS will try to do is to have pro- vision drafted which will satisfactorily block this loophole.
 The project which got the dealers especially aroused was one which compels a registry system to be main tafned in each garage. In one of the lengthy bills for consideration appear ed the following section, and it Is what the dealers last night protested against:
 Every registered manufactures, dealer or liveryman shall keep in a book proper record of every auto mobile which leaves or enters his ness, other than those owned or con- trolled by him and taken by an en- ploye. Every person except as herein provided, before taking motor vehicle from the garage, stable or place of business of a manufacturer. dealer or liveryman, for the purpose of operating it in any public highwaS or private way laid out under author ity of law, or leaving it in the garage, stable, shop or place of busir ess, of sl all enter in said book, in the columns under the proper headings, the registered number and letter of the motor vehicles he is about to use or has used. the number of his H. cense to operate, the date and time
 
 fix his signature thereto. The person who returns the motor vehicle to said garage, stable, shop or place of busi- ness skaIl enter the date and time of it's return in said book under the proper headings, and sign his name in the blank provided. Any entries in said book shall be made legibly, in ink. The book shall be kept in some convenient place, and shall be kept at all times open to the inspection of the secretary of the state and his agents and any police officer or con- stabie." o;
 As the dealers understand this sec ton, it will entail hardships upon both the dealers and the patrons of the 2 lrages. According to the inter- pretation that they place upon it a patron who comes to the garage to get five gallons of gasoline who drives his car into the garage will have t0 register before coming in and before going out. The injustice lies also in compelling the dealer to maintain g clerical force to be on guard to see that the law is enforced.
 Fred W. Dart said that the addi .. tion If a bookkeeping force which the section would necessitate would mean an increased expense and that the rates would have to be put up by the dealers to make business pay. President R. D. Britton of the as- sociation spoke strongly along the same lines