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Show Uniform Road Rules Are Being Urged by Railways Arguments for a federal rules of the road act to secure uniformity and reduce re-duce automobile accidents all over the country were advanced before the committee com-mittee on commerce, trade and commercial com-mercial law of the American Bar association as-sociation by Herbert E. Itowe, chairman chair-man of the committee on the prevention preven-tion of highway crossing accidents of the American Railway association, and D. E. Minnrd, general attorney of the Erie railroad. The committee met at the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, 65 Liberty street. Doubt as to the legal practicability of the plan was expressed by some members of the Bar association committee. com-mittee. Mr. Rowe will file n brief and the recommendations of the committee com-mittee will be announced at the forthcoming forth-coming annual meeting of the Bar association. as-sociation. W. II. H. Piatt of Kansas City, chairman of the committee, said that the differences in the rules of the road in various states were a decided detriment, det-riment, now that country-wide automobile au-tomobile travel had become common. |