The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-21
'CAPITAL MOTORISTS
REGRET DEFEAT Of
NEW JERSEY BILL
Reciprocity Measure Reject
ed After Three Hours
Debate.
BY HARRY WARD.

Washington motorists today learned
with regret that the automobile reci-
procity bill was defeated yesterday by
the New Jersey senate by two votes
after a red-hot three-hour debate.
The bill, which provided that motorists
from other States could use the roads
of New Jersey for fifteen days in
year without the necessity of filing pow
er of attorney, had been amended in the
! senate to provide for 90 per cent in
crease in license fees, but the opponents
of the measure were still unsatished.
Senator Colgate, in a strong speech ia
! voring the reciprocity clause, asserted
the wall that had been built around
New Jersey to the exclusion OF nom
resident motorists should be removed
| at once.
| He ridiculed the suggestion that auto
mobile drivers destroyed the roads, and
argued that instead, they had made the
roads. He also pointed out that forty
four States had laws similar TO the pro-
visions of the measure under discussion.
| When Assemblyman Suckel, the
author of the BILL heard of its defeat,
he said he would introduce another bill
! along the lines of the District of Co.
lumbia act, which provides as follows:
| 'otor vhicles brought into the Dis
| triCt of Columbia by tourists or other
| non-residents, for their use during a
| transient sojourn only in said District,
and who, with respect to such vehicles
| have complied with the law requiring
J the registration of owners or operators
! of such motor vehicles in the State or
| Territory or foreign country of their
residence, and where the registration
number showing the identity of such
I state or Territory or foreign country is
! displayed on such vehicles, shall be eX-
|
| quiring the registration of and placing
| of numbers on motor vehicles to such
| extent as under the laws of such State,
| Territory or foreign country where
such an automobile is registered, like
| exemptions and privileges are granted
| to motor vehicles duly registered under
| the laws of the District of Columbia
| and owned or operated by residents
| thereof. Upon such vehicles not more
than three registration numbers, includ-
ing the registration number OF the
State. Territory or foreign country OF
| which the owner or operator is resi-
dent, shall be displayed.
A stiff fight is being made by dealers,
jobbers, and manufacturers of tires to
defeat bill now pending in the New
York Legislature providing that all
automobile tires sold in that State shall
be branded, tagged. or marked with the
date of their manufacture. The posi-
ton taken by the dealers Is that the
bill serves no valuable purpose to the
user and will embarrass the dealer.
G.. D. Fairgrteves, general sales man
ager, and G. r. Erkman, Eastern sales
manager of the Anderson Electric Car
riage Company, were in Washington
yesterday visiting Emerson & Orme,
agents for the Detroit electric.
| That there is such a thing as luck in
automobile racing is the admission OF
RAY Harroun. who covered himself with
glory last year by winning the 5O0-mils
International sweepstakes race at Indi-
Annapolis.
The man who drives 500 miles at an
average speed of practically seventy-fiv5
miles an hour to win the big race this
year will deserve every honor" said
/ Harroun. II am content to relinquish
the worlds records to the driver who
accomplishes this.
Harroun Is of the opinion that the
chances are about even that last year.
record will stand. However. luck alone
will not reduce the record of hours
AZ minutes and seconds for the 90
| miles.