Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-02-22
MOTORISTS
IN PENNA.
Jersey Will Have to Get
Pennsylvania Tags.
STRIKE BACK.
Pennsylvania Legislature Makes
Effort to Slap Back at New
jersey Motorists.

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 20.-State
Senator Buckman is the author of a
bill intended to place the same re-
strictions upon New Jersey motor
vehicles entering this State as the
New Jersey authorities recently de-
creed should apply to Pennsylvania
motor vehicles passing into New Jer-
sey.
State Commissioner Of Motor Vehi-
cles Dill, of New Jersey, recently is
sued a mandidate that Pennsylvania
motor vehicles could cross the bor-
ders of that State only on Is different
occasions in the course of a single
year unless they carried New Jersey
as well as a Pennsylvania license.
Commissioner Dills ruling, affect
ing as it does thousands of Pennsyl-
vania motorists who have been ac-
customed to indulge in favorite New
Jersey runs to points like Atlantic
City without having a New Jersey Ii
cense number tagged to their cars, is
held by Senator Buckman to be a vio-
lations Of the understanding which
has long existed between the Penn
sylvania and New jersey authorities
as to motor licenses.
The Senator frankly states that his
bill is intended as counter move
against the Commissioners decree
and that what is fish for one State in
the matter of motor regulation cannot
be fairly considered fowl for another.
until recently our construction of
the New Jersey law governing motor
vehicle licenses Senator Buckman
said, twas that Pennsylvania motor
vehicle could pass into New Jersey
and remain in that State for any part
of or all Of a period of fifteen days
without its owner being required to
take out New Jersey license.
According to the understanding we
thought we had with the New Jersey
authorities, Pennsylvania motor vehi-
clists not possessing a New Jersey Ii
cense could repeatedly re-enter New
Jersey for any part or all of such a
fifteen-day period at frequent inter-
walls during the year. Now we are in
formed that Commissioner Dill is of
| the opinion that the Pennsylvania mo-
torists who have not taken out a New
; Jersey license cannot enter New Jer-
sey on more than fifteen days or oc-
caslons in the course of a year and
that part of day shall constitute one
day or occasion.
1T can be readily understood what
hardship this would impose not on
ly upon Pennsylvania automobilists
but upon business concerns or profess
slonal men who have been accus-
toned to taking or sending motor We
hicles from this State into New Jer-
sey without them heretofore having
been required to take out a New Jer-
sey license.
We have never required New Jer-
sey motor vehiclists to take out a
State license on brief journeys. In
fact, our attitude has always been a
liberal Or reciprocal Que as we be-
lieved that the proximity of New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, with so many
motor vehicles crossing and recross-
ing from one State to another, justi-
fled the broadest construction of Ii
cense regulations.
1--WE have discovered that Commits
sioner Dill has had inspectors sta
toned at the approaches leading from
Pennsylvania into New Jersey in or
der to keep tabs on Pennsylvania mo-
tor vehicles with New Jersey license
tags and to see that this ruling is
enforced. My bill is intended-yes,
you may say, as reprisal measure
for if the New Jersey authorities in
tend to back up Commissioner Dill's
decree, then we shall adopt similar
regulations and meet him at his own
game"
Senator Buckman said another pro-
vision of his bill would be to author
lze the State police to act as automo-
bile inspectors to help see that the
State automobile regulations were
properly enforced.