Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1927, Page 5

ONPULSIRY AUTD INSURANGEFLAYE Foes of Proposal Meet Before D. C. Chamber to Ex- press Views. . Vigorous objections o nd in written briefs were raised agamst en ectment of a compulsor liability insurai o law for trict of Columbiu last night when op ponents of the proposal had their in ning before the special committes of the Washington Chamber of Com merce which is studying advisability the Principal arguments delivered the proposed law, which would pro vide a means for the indemnification of persons injured in traffic mishaps, were that the cost of compulsory in surance would prove excessive, that it would cause the courts to be ged with lawsuits of persons s @amages, that it wouid iner : rather than evrh wmification of injurcd p would not he nssured. Foes Attend. of the Doze \ dozen opponent attended the he thése presenting spokes: or the I hoard of th cciation Ahout posed law were st Columbia ady n Automobii nth Street Heights Citizen. ciation. A letter from the United Etates Chamber of Commerce opposi and another from Nation- seiation of Finance Companies also were entered in the record 4 @ A final hearing | the insurance measure is to be held then the testimony given at the is to be compiled and report- mmittee of the chamber on police and fire protection and pub- Jie safety, which plans to draft a pro- posed law for consideration of pro; and proponents of be forwarded to the Distriet Commis- sioners and to Congress. Charles J. Stockman presidgd over the hearing last night in the absence of Jerome Fanciulli, chairman of the committee in charge. Compulsory ~ automobile insur: was Branded a “dubious remed tragedies that arise f ing under—the Jetter from the United States Cham- | ber of Comme gned by A. von! Thaden of the insurance department of the orzanization. Cites Parley A semind- | Opening his statement by ing the 1 1 chamber that the na-| tional chamber does not ~interfere with activities of its_ member organi- zations, or seek to persuade them by arguments to agree with the national group, but rather to* co-operate by | seeking to extend education, Mr. von Thaden cited the action of the four-| teenth annual meeting of the l‘r\iw-l; States Chamber, which went on record opposing the insurance measure. Mr. Thaden quoted the. resolution adopt- | ed by the national chamber, which | said, in part: | & “To reduce traffic accidents, compul- | yme quarters | ach | gory insurance has in s been advocated for the owner of automobile; . A carefyl study fails to disclose reason to helieve that, if adopted, it will reduce accidents. For that reason, d for other reasons, we oppose the, principles’ of compulsory putomobile insurance and advocate efforts which are caléulated to in- crease the mafety of ovr. streefs.” The letter from Mz’ von Thaden also cited results of a atudy of actions growing but of all deaths-from auto- mobjle aceidents occuiTing in th triet uring the period Juiy 1, | August 31, 1925, to determine number of heirs of persons killed who wers fmable to collect dapages. Out of a total of 53 claims for in- demnification which grew out of the total of 176 deaths, the statement L showed, 24 -were disposed of in favor of the clalmants, aithough the mo- torist was shown to be clearly liahle in but 23 of the eases; that of thé 34 claims, the full amount of damages was collected in 30 instances and part of the damages in iwo other cases, and that there were but two cases in which no damages could be collected. Loomis in’ Address. Speaking for the local gdvisory board of the: American Automobile Association, A. M. Loomis, member of the hoard, presented a'long list of ob- jections .46 the insurance propasal. chief of whigh were the cost that would be placed on all ‘automobile owners, that it would not curb reck- Jessness and that it would not pro- A, ¥ide insuranc. for all injured. s Quoting figures which he said were published |by the Workmen's Compen- sation Publicity Bureau, Mr. Loomis said that the total annual cost of au- tomobile insurance in the State of Texas amounted to $24,000,000, while the amount of uncollected judgments ©4n accident cases over a two-year period had been computed at $68,000. Deglaring that the psychological . effect of | compulsory insurance law would be to increase reckless driving. Mr. Loomis sail that in Massachu- ! metts, where a similar law has been in operation for about nine months. the number of persons killed in traffic sccidents during the first six months of this year were 35 more than during the preceding Young Delays Verdict. Henry C. Young, speaking as a mem- ® .+ of the Insurance Exchange of the District of Columbia, which he said had not acted formally on the pro- posal, pleaded for delay in decision on the proposed compulsory insurance in order that it be given first a fair trial In other sections befare its application her: He declared, howeves, that the Jaw would tend to increase litigation over damages and doubted that it would prove to be a misure for the good of the majority, placing a con- siderable cost on all automobile own- ers for the benefit of a few. C. H. Warrington, a member of the | Association, | Washington Automotive termed the proposal m 2 excuse” r: jured persons, a of the arguments made by Mr. Loomis. H. M. Phillips reported that the Six- teenth Street Heights Citizens' Asso- ciation had opposed the insurance measure, PORTS SEEK ADJUSTMENT. Portland and Boston Shippers to Come Here Wednesday. Representatives of Boston and Port- land, Me., shipping interests will ap- pear before the Shipping Board next Wednesday to protest against alleged discriminatory freight rates ring the ports of Baltimore and Philadel- phia. Shipping operators from the two New England ports and members of the Maritime Association of the Boston Chamber of Commerce will at- tend the hearing. The Interstate Commerce Commis- gion has heard arguments of the pro testing operators, who asked for the same differential freight rates as ap- plied to Philadelphia and Baltimore, | but E. C. Plummer, vice chairman of the Shipping Board, said the commis. _«dston had not assented. Tanker Sends S 0 S Call. SAN PEDRO, Calif., October 13 ®).—An 8 O S from the California Petroleum Co. tanker Winfred O'Don- nell, repovting that she had gone ashore near Point Arguello, 140 miles north of here, was received by the Federal Telegraph Co. late last night. utomobile | Dis- | clog the | chamber and which, if approved, will |ang special | lawlessness | in the national delegates favo 'POPULAR “REVOLT" IS FORESEEN ‘BY BUTLER IF DR | Columbia President Recalls | ; Pregz-'-1t in Free- E Sher Issue. | | Says Americans 'to Demand Specific Declarations on Question. BY ROBERT BARRY. It the “professional political mana gers"” seek to ade or i; in the g . the American peop c the campaig heir hands, D | Nicholas Murray of New York has concluded after his study of the | potential issues |7 “The people will shape the campaizn fto suit themselves,” he added, refer vin srtive attempt by the i le the free silver in 189, only 1o bave the tariflv dropped and forgotten - Ay 1 ¢ does not often find him v went with William Gibhs MeAdoo. They are at tremes on most questions of political philosophy | and practice, They at opposite poles on the prohibition issue, Demand Specifie Declarations, ent of Columbia U for the militant fc the ment, agre | with the pion of the | ary act that i the, | professional politicians may do in 192" | to compromise the prohibition is | specific declarations. Both vinced that if evasion be in the name of politics,” | Amevican people ide otherwise and override the politi No candidate for the y permitted to he evasive on the issue, Dr. Butler, Republ dectare. Mr. McAdoo, atic dry echoes “ave. “To de ment. the [ Dr. Butler | be Dema re merely for law enforee are,” e for | \d for a continuous and 1 assault, under official pro the’ foundations of our | Three Held Vital, Tn response to the d rogarding the likelihood of an over whelming majority of the Repub’ decla- on for enforcement of all laws, Butler declared such was the pur > of the “profe; al political gers,” but that, irrespective of | them_ the American peaple would de- | mand something more specific from | he party nominees, “either before ot after the conventions “The three matters uppermost in the public mind,” Dr. Butler “and whose prompt and wise settl ment is demanded by the public in- terest, are (he eighteenth ment and the problems it raises, s cultural relief.and development and | international co-operation for the | establishment of international peac# “Since all three of these matters cut directly across the two existing political parties and divide them | sharply, the professional politi cal managers and the professional | office-holding class are determined | that no one of them sha!l be frank dealt with by the platform dec tions to be made in June next, that can possibly be avoided. “Their interest is to elect candi- dates to office without raising any important public issue if that be pos sible. The public interest deman the contrary course. So does politic courage and political capacity. Liquor Question Uppermost. - “So far as the elghteenth amend® | ment is concerned, it ix uppermosf | in the minds of the voting masses in a'most every State, and no matter | what part it is permitted to play in | the: national conventions it will play @& very lafge part in the campaign.” Meaning?” “No candidate for the presidency | will. be permitted to get very far, either hefore or afler the conven tions, without being called upon to | answer the question I put in my de- bate with Senator Borah at Boston last April, namely, ‘Are vou for the Federal Union established by th Constitution or against it? Are you for the forbidden eighteenth amend- ment, which has been forced into | that Constitution, or against it? Are| you for the declarations of the bill of rights or against them? " | Dr. Butler was asked what he | though?. of a platform declaration | merely for law enforcement. § 24 “No party and no candidate will be | permitted to hide behind a pusillani- | mous declaration for law enforce- ment,” he said. “If by law enforce- ment is meant the just and equal en: | forcement of all laws, then the eight- | eenth amendment and the legislation built upon it are unenforceable, since | they conflict with the fundamental | principles of the Constitution and of | the bill of rights at every point. Such | a declaration is, therefore, a frayd and a conscious fraud. “Not Permit Evasion.” | “If, on the other hand, by law en- | forcement is meant the enforcement | of the eighteenth amendment and the | legislation built upon it regardless of | the fundamental principles of the Con- stitution and all other laws, then a declaration for law enforcement is a | declaration for lawlessness and for a | continuous and organized assault, un- | der official protection, upon the founda- tions of our Government. Let any | eandidate or any party try to content | question if | Y FIGHT EVADED NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. them=elves with a general and plausi «declaration for kaw e weement nd they will have to 1ac it dilem- and either answer these questions them.” “Who might raise v Republican that is, A very large body of American citi ‘nest on this funda will not per neralities, or snp Butler replied foundations sens are dead in e mental subject they mit pression of dahate,” D Indaed, they helieve the th vernment to be at stake, nd they will not he denied the ex pression of their earnest and profound iction “Te “Ave not the wets in a min the Republican party?” Fortunately everything that has happened and is happening makes for the early and just setilement of this reat question. Evidence multiplies hat total abstainers hy the thousand, ho had thought national prohibition 1 amendment was the Al with the evils of the saloon and of the private liquor traffic, have seen what a terrible mis take was made, and are now amonz - most earnest in the demand that h amendment be repealed | interest of the vement itself, is perfectly po: loon without bri: istence the speak-eas: fectly possible effectively to rezulate, or indeed, to make impossible, private traflic in intoxicating liquors. The experience of the Quebee and of the Scandinavian coun- tries proves these facts conclusively Neither of these ends can be reach- ed, however, hy the eighteenth amend- ment, or without its repeal.” Overwhelmed in Advance. “Yet declarations for law enforce- ment have heen acceptable to Repub- n previous presidential cam- temperance paigns? n the campaign of 1920 the facts having to do with this matter had not developed sufficiently to make the prohibition issue important,” Dr. Big ler, contended. “In the campaign | 1934, while the facts were developing rapidly, public opinion had not yet en hold of them with sufficient vigor and interest to make the pro- hibition issue dominant “As a matter of fac Harding deeply resented the eight- eenth amendment and _frequently spoke of it with emphatic disapproval. Svery principle of government for which President Coolidge has so ef- fectively stood, and every political doctrine which he has supported in President the | ] |ciple and true political courage could Province of | the Democratic party—no man has yet been seriously mentioned as a candidate for the nomination in 1928 who is not opposed in principle to the eighteenth amendment and all that it represents. They only differ in the | amount of publicity given their views Any candidate who should offer him self on an Anti-Saloon League plat- form would be everwhelmed in ad vance. } Views of Candidate. These of themselves are hopeful signs, but in order to get effective ac- tion in the public interest much more is needed. We shall be told, for ex- ample, that no matter what may be | the personal views of the presidential | candidate he not the pteenth amendment, modify the Volstead act. Th of those truths which records a false hood. “Of course, nd President can repeal the eighteenth amendment, or even | modify the Volstead act, but the per sonality and the political opinion of | the candidate for President have long since become symbolic in the public | mind and thereby profoundly influ- | ential with a newly elected Congress ind with State Legislatures having « majority helonging to the party of ] which the President himself is a member. “The excuse given by the profes zional political managers and the of ding class for trying to elim the prohibition question from the nest « what happened cor B standard in the campaign of 1896, So Strong was the free silver movement, | md so largely was it represented in the, ranks of the Republican party that the most desperate efforts were i the party managers, first at the St. Louis convention, and after ward during tHe opening weeks of the | | campaign, to keep it in the back | ground.” The tariff was put by the Republicans as the be pushed and debated. Force of Public Opinion. “Publ he denied opmion, however, would not | By the first of A st the it question had practically | eiiminated from the campaign, and nothing was talked of or thought of except the gold standard versus the free coinage of silver. The people ihmk the campaign out of the hands |of the political managers and shaped it to snit themselves and their own sonvietions. They will do precisely the same thing in 1928, “This is not the time nor the place to enlarge upon the other great is- sues, agricultural development and relief and international co-operation to promote international peace, but, believe me, these two, together with | ohibition, occupy the minds of an whelming majority of the Ameri- | hecause nobody is opposed to No ixsue can be made out of. gov. | ernmental economy, because every body is in favor of it. 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