The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-05-02
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
Breezy News Notes From Our
Washington City Pencil
Pusher
Special To The News

One of the things that the Unit
ed States senate usually avoids, is
hasty or precipltate action, no
matter how urgent the case may
be. But for once this greatest
deliberative body of the world
got a hustle on" and the way
the senators promptly busted them
selves in investigating the Titanic
disaster, has won the applause of
people everywhere. There has
been no such intensity of feeling
known in Washington since the
day of the assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley, rs that produced
by the great horror of the sea.
The correspondent of the News
sat close to the great Marconi, in
ventor of wireless telegraphy, met
and conversed with members of
the Titanic crew, and had ample
opportunity to observe j. Bruce
lsmay, who has become the cen
tral figure of attention throug hout
the world since the announcement
of the hearings at the Senate Office
Building, and inasmuch as it has
not been published before, it may
be told to the readers of this paper
that the palm of the hand of this
British plutocrat appears to verify
his claim that he pulled an oar of
the life boat in which he escaped.
lsmay is not tyicalIy English. His
complexion is so dark as to be al
most swarthy, and his features and
black curly hair, causes him to
resemble more the Hebrew, from
which race he is said to come, than
the English, and in the early per-
iod of his arrival in this country,
he wore the look of a nerve-wreck-
ed man making supreme effort
to put up a bold front. On board
the Carpathia he occupied one of
the choicest staterooms, while
women slept upon the floors of the
ship. In New York and Washing
ton. Ismay has commanded the
highest price attention, and his
money has bought the best accom-
modations in the most expensive
hotels. While the feeling of pref
udice against the man as indicated
by the daily press has not been
overstated, yet to the credit of the
American people it can be truth
fully said that nowhere was any
discourtesy shown Ismay and the
White Star officials, and judgment
in every quarter was held in obey
ance pending the outcome of the
great investigation which the SEN
ate has so effectively carried on.
The wreck of the Titanic has
brought it's sorrows and grief
strongly home to the people of
Washington and the entire eastern
portion of the country, where
friends and families of the unfor-
tunate ones who perished have
been bowed down with grief.
, Memorial exercises have been held
, everywhere and the nation has
, passively waited the relating o1
the story as it has been brOugh,
I, out by the senator's. And while
little has or can be done to allevi
ate the condition produced by the
+ tremendous catastrophe that has
r shocked the world, yet it is ap
p parent that every effort is being
, made to arrive at the facts and tt
] utilize them in framing Legislation
q that will prevent a recurrence @
, such thing again upon the higf
seas.
There is no attempt to concea
the fact that the situation in regart
: to Mexico is extremely serious
and the American authorities ar,
: using every strategy to avoid in
tervention. The problem of main
tanning national honor" is some