RIDICULING A LAW.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8865, 16 July 1907, Page 1

RIDICULING A LAW.

A bill for the restriction of motoring in the State of Illinois which was passed recently by the |State Legislature at Springfield has been attacked bitterly by motorists and their friends. The measure has been covered with ridicule by the introduction of a series of burlesque amendments by Mr John R. Robinson, a farmer, who is considered the humourist of the legislature. They include the following:— 1. In case a farmer’s horse will not pass a motor-car, the chauffeur will take the car apart and conceal .the parts in the nearest field. 2. In approaching curves a man must go ahead, sounding a horn at intervals of fifteen seconds.

3. Speed on country roads to be limited to ten miles an hour unless the chauffeur encounters a disguised policeman who does not appear to have had a drink for thirty days. 4. When a farmerr s cart is sighted coming in the opposite direction the chauffeur will stop tire car half a mile distant,?and approach with cigars, a bottle of spirits, and a white flag. In case the driver of the cart will not permit the motor-car to pass, the chauffeur is to come forward with presents for the farmer’s wife and children. If this does not avail, the chauffeur is to have the right to wreck the cart and kill the driver.

o. All touring cars must change colour with vegetation, according to the season, in order to be rendered as inconspicuous as possible. Cars to be green in the spring, the colour of the golden wheat in June, dust colour in July and August, red in October, yellow in November, and white in December.

The amendments were actually carried, amid roars of laughter, but were afterwards cancelled.