Show t congress ess has its eye on automobiles nit nil previous records nr for W WITH road building smashed by tile the laying of alinosi 1 miles of new nev highways during the fiscal year 1022 1922 there are ar 1 ft I numbed of t movements afi affecting I tile the automobile owners in the united stater having small beginnings in congress the impetus given the work by the enactment of tile the federal aid bill Is batke backfiring on the capitol in the tit e form of schemes chemes fc which jarige all tile the way from regulating interstate use of au to federal intervention in tile the settlement of accident trials one of the measures measured now pending before congress which ls 19 of great in teresito teres terest tto lo automobile owners la Is a bill at present slumbering in the frouge house ways and means committee providing a special tax on automobiles which engage in interstate representative senta tive appleby of new jersey Is the author of the bill it also would provid provider pr ovidea dd fe fed leral erali licen sefor far the convenience veni en tence ence of the so called tin can tourist who chugs along aloag over the high waya was A from maine to florida artil and from coast to coast the price would be 40 cents per horsepower with a minimum of 5 on any ye vehicle hicle ninety per cen cent i t of this would come into the tha fet lerat treasury there ire are three almost identical bills pending in the afie denato tend and house inter interstate stafe commerce com merco committees commit acea ao to the interstate use of automa automo 1 bales s another senate bev would amend the national motor vehicle theft act by bro providing providing viding a tine ov i and Im imvris pris for give five years for any one on trani transporting porting it a stolen machine across it a state line allne f |