The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-26
TO GET
| MONEY OUT Of
/ OCEAN HORROR
|Warconi' Acknowledges Au-
ttorizing Wireless Opera
n tors to Sell Their Stories
When They Arrived.
MESSAGES PICKED
UP BY BATTLESHlP
Great Italian Inventor Cuts
Poor Figure When Answer
ing Questions Put by the
Senate Committee.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-Gugliel-
no Msrconi, inventor of the wireless
nd chairman OF the Marconi company,
limited. TO-DAY told the senate commit
"a investigating the Titanic disaster
<hat he authorized the wireless oPe-
ra3ors of the Carpathia and lltdmc
"A sell the stories Of tie great catas"
tropbe for publication.
Mr. Marconi explained that IN CIV
M consent for the sale he had not at
+empted in any way to suppress gen
><sl information of the wreck.
He denied snr previous knowledge
Ia wireless messages 10 the Carpathla
ooerators telling them TO keep Your
Mouths snutn and ''nol6 out for four
Npures, (" These messages, one or
hem signed "Marconi, we're picked
bp by the United States battleshlp
,Florida the night thc Carpathia was
l&op,ing in and forwarded TO the secre-
'iary of the navy. Mr.. Marconi de.
r{IHfeQ He never duNhoi h''i '"SSo ''S'
ages bur did give consent that the
bperstors could receive money.
Pointed Question.
= Mr. Marcou told OF repeated at
i,fempts which he had made Sunday,
Monday and the days following the
kFngedy for information, Senator
Emith said to Mr.. Marconi:
Z 81 would ike to have your own best
r.Indement AS to whether the custom
Sestablisbed BY Operator Biuns in tho
lRepublic disaster Of selling his news
! and the privilege You gave to Cottam
I'm the Titanic disaster, had anything
10 do with your failure to get this in
: rormatiou and thus deprive the public
Z NJ the details OF this horror2''
4 Mt. Marcou said he did not think
81 and repeatedly insisted he had not
tfsmpted to suppress any details.
]. Before taking the stand Mr., Mar
mi frankly discussed the message sent
, /. rom New York to the wireless ope-
Vfnrs on the Carpathia before Chief
Eugineer Sammls of the Marconi com
4, my. asking them 20 hold out their
icwE when they reached poru for "four
\ lures, -
y ERessel Not at Sea.
81 Yes. that message was sent hy
.ts7mmls, y said Mr.. Narconi. "but
lsnew nothing about the message until
ihfferward. There is this about ii that
Il want to say: the message was not
n Hnf while tine Carpathia wes at sea.
was not sent until the Carpatbia had
Hssed Sandy Hook and was nearing
u When Senator Smith reached the
~ nmltfee room messages from Toronto
:; n altel him containing the informa
that dispositions of the officers
: Nq Grew of the steamer Mount Temple,
=, Ven sighted the Titanic would be
:" sen today by Canadian authorities
4, -, John. \, B.. aud would be for
I" >rdcd to Washington.
49, 6enstor Smith asked Mr.. Marconi
~ ne he had to do with wireless ap-
~ Fafns, ashore and sfloat, and whether
=, selected the operators.
]. Position Advisory.
j am consulted as TO the installa.
yirl U Of apparatus - he said-
n i do not dictate the style OF ap-
drts <atuS but | am on call to advise. [
vr fel around the world good bit on
\ - this work. -
ND What is your official connection
Il the British eovernment?'
: II have no official connection ex-
- for consultation. Our company
: = contract with the government for
il extension of wireless in the Brit
80 enpire. The work will take up at
:" ~ eighteen years.
- - hRve YOU the exclusive right to
fieh uSuf
: ~ Ne have that right so far as the
: ! protect our patents in Eng
-, said Marconi.
~ = Ns tave had dealings with the
nan government and Germany IS
o. q. and stations bow are controlled
~ COMPANY which works in harmony
o. op us. We pet percentage for our
91stor Smith sought to discover
:, tuer the witness had extensive con
W. Ss5 ~ With any other government or
\ ~ I have with Italy - said Mr.. Mar.
H'Iit is personal contract and the
HPany has nothing to DO with it'
- HS witness told of contracts with
~ thhadlau government and also an
spst6 Hpendent understanding with New
"a ~ Asw<I 2nlees An operator constantly has
etass} 20 .eceiver on his head be would not
~ q ~ sIgnalF' asked Senator Smith.
ssJs a That is correct replied Mr.. Mar
Isss Wages Paid,
sSy 1ked as to pay Of wireless oper.
psf y ~ Mr. Mareoni said that in England
~ pay ranged from 81 to $12 a week
~sus board and lodging.
4 ~ ~ ,s easy to get operators at those
es., he said, because the sea is
an tctive TO young men,
HoN ne wages in America. Mr. Marconi
:. evf}<,. were slightly higher
~ t1d you send wireless to the op.
= or the Carpathia telling him TO
&c you and Sammis at the Strand ho.
Ssp p9 to keep your mouth shutf' -
Ast }4id yon hear Of such messaeeq'
- ~ ss, ir9m the newspapers