The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-21
Senate Inquiry Moved to Washington and
Fifty Survivors of the Titanic Are
Ordered to Appear.
THE D|sP|sED |sMAY WOULD BACK OUT
Will Keep at it a Month if Necessary to Find
Out the Whole Truth About the
Catastrophe.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ] /
NEW YORK, April 2o.--Leaving
New York stunned and aghast at dis.
closures in bare, surface investiga
ton of the tragedy of the III
tanfc, the senate inquiry committee
tonight shifted operations to Wash.
ington.
Monday the powerful hand of the
government will resume, thrusting
aside the veil yet shrouding with mys
terry the real cause of the disaster.
"The surface has barely been
scratched; the real investigation is
yet to come,' said Senator William
Alden Smith, of Michigan, chairman
of the preliminary inquiry, as he
stepped aboard his train for the cap
! ital tonight.
Calm, Judicial inquiry at Washing
ton, Monday morning, will proceed the
dramatically hasty, almost frenzied
and sensational hearings here which
Senator Smith says have impeded the
work
Before leaving tonight. the ponder
/ Gus but snplaoabie force OF Uncle
Sam was set in motion for a search
ing, thorough, If lengthy, inquest-for
/ an inquest it is-that of nation
over the hundreds of bodies lying two
miles below the waves.
Fifty witnesses, all snatched from
/ death by the rescue ship Carpathiai
we're tonight summoned to appear
Monday before the entire senate COM
mittee selected to probe the catas-
trophe.
The Desplsed lsmay.
From ]. Bruce Ismay, managing
director, of the White Star line, to
the lowliest stoker of the ill-fated T.:
4 tanic, the government will seek the
htruth of the marine mystery. Ismay,
the object of such scorn and vitupera,
ton as has seldom scorched any pub
lie man, must re-tell his story From
reluctant lips-whose owner sought
I refuge aboard will again be drawn
4 1l5 part III tnS iilluiliSili lhldHtoc.
Ten passengers possibly including
Mrs. John Jacob Astor the four sur
viving officers and twenty-nine mem.
bers of the Titanics crew, tonight
were ordered to Washington Monday
Vice President P A. 5. Franklin, oil
the White Star line, also received a
blue slip''-the federal subpoena
Harold Bride. the wireless hero Of
; the wrecked Titanic, and Harold T
Cottam. who on the Carpathia an
answered Brides &C. @. D." calls, are
also ordered to the capital
Among the passengers. Colone
Archibald Oracle. of Washington
and Mr.. and Mrs. D. Bishop were
, first to be summoned
Tonight clash of authority be
.. tween Uncle Sam and Johnny Bul
over the investigation seemed i'm
minent. Jurisdiction over the Brit
sh officers and crew of the vesse
ish government were threatened.
Subjects of Britain
r "The committee has no power t.
, detain Operator Cottam and | am pre-
a raring an appeal to the British con
$ sui, said Engineer Sammis of TIL
). Marconi Wireless company. Cotton
8 is British subject on British soil
, a British ship
}. Ismay, also a Briton, objected f
: going to Washington. He begged Ser
|. ator Smith for permission to retur
Immediately to Europe. The senate
was obdurate, however.
1t was learned tonight that tn
U British consul at New York made
h flying trip to Washington today. 1t
a reported his visit was to Ambassado
i Bryce with representations in behal
n of the British passengers and crew {
II the Titanic.
a Tonight Senator Smith also mappe
4 out further details of the federal il
, quhy next week. He conferred Sc
r. eral hours with Senator'S Newland
and Reed at the Waldorf before tai
n ing the midnight train for Washington
al Aid of the governments experts wi
Il be given the committee. Senate
Smith said the photographic offic
navy officers and governments wir