The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-25

Washington, May pa scathine
arragnment OF J. Bruce Ismay ant
White Star line officials in New York
A stern denunciation of many mem
oers OF the pick up" crew of the
Titanic and sweeping charges of IN
competency in the management OF the
line, viii be made in the report OF the
special subcommittee appointed to in
Sestigate into the Titanic disaster By
the United States senate, which will
be biNen to the senate next Tuesday
morning. The report will be submit.
ted by Chairman William Alden Smith
of Michigan, who has labored al
most necessarily since the afternoon
he was rushed to New York to meet
the Carpathia and secure the facts
first hand.
From the instant of his arrival al
the dock up to the completion OF the
report and the speech he is to make
on IL, Senator Smith has worked UNI
remittently and actively. He exam
incI every witness here and in New
York exhaustively. He made many
trips to New York to find and examine
new witnesses and he got the facts.
Taken together as they will be pre-
scented in the report, they constitute
the most startling indictment of a
great passenger-carrylng corporation
that has ever been found by an In
vestigation body appointed by the
senate.
Senator Smith has completed his
speech which he will deliver with the
submission of the report and in which
he will make an earnest plea for the
enactment of legislation which will
lnake such another horror as that of
the Titanic impossible.
The report spares neither J. Bruce
lsmay nor his subordinates in New
York, whose juggling with the truth,
after receiving news from Montreal
that the Titanic had sunk, is savagely
criticized Emphasis is laid on the
cruelty Of sending out such dispatches
as that received by Representative
Hughes of West Virginia, whose
daughter was on the Titanic with her
husband and was told in a telegram,
signed White Star line, that the I'll.
tame was being towed into Halifax.
Direct responsibility for the catas.
trophe is laid on Captain Smith and
L. is pointed out that had he needed
the warnings of ice sent him by the
America and other vessels the lives OF
the 1885 would have been saved.
Pointing out that the speed of the
Titanic just before she struck the
iceberg was twenty.four and halt
miles an hour, and that it had been
steadily increased after receiving ice
warning by telegraph, the report as
gerts that the presence on board OF
lsmay, the managing director of the
line, and Andrews, the constructor for
Harlan & Wolf, the constructors, was
undoubtedly an incentive to making
this great speed.
II is stated that President Ismay,
who got away safely, was advised i'm.
mediately of the danger, while man ,
OF the passengers were not. The i'm.
pact, although equal in momentum 20
the impact of the combined broadsides
OF twenty great battleships, being
scarcely felt on the vessel, such was
her giant size and tremendous sta.
bility.
The report recites that the pickup
crew with which the White Star line
manned the vessel were unacquairtnd
with each other and their duties.
There was the utmost confusion when
the vessel struck
Much space is devoted to brief
and effective recital of the incidents
on the vessel after the iceberg had
slid along her side, leaving a great
gaping hole in the starboard pilge