As more cyclists across the city took to the roads, conflicts with horse-and-buggy drivers became increasingly common. In June 1890 local wheelmen united to lobby the state legislature to pass house bill 81, also known as the “Liberty Bill,” which gave cyclists the same rights upon public roadways as carriages drawn by horses. A year later, though, conflicts still persisted. The Times-Picayune reported in July 1891 that “the bicycling population is up in arms against two very disagreeable forms of men who ought to be put down with all possible speed. The first and worst is known as the ‘road hog,’ a class of drivers who are unwilling to give a wheelman sufficient room to pass on a public thoroughfare,” and the second were men who harassed cyclists by letting their dogs loose to chase them.