Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-29
One Thousand Dollars is Ap-
propriated for Properly In
scribed Gold Medal in Token
of Appreciation.
LAWS ADVOCATED TO
MAKE TRAVEL SAFE
Ocean Going Vessels Must Pro-
vide Themselves with Water
Tight Compartments and Suf-
ficient Life Boats.

BY Morning Journal Special Lensed Wlre.I
Washington, May 2S.-The formal
thanks of congress to the steamer Car
pathia's officers and crew for the res
cue of the Titanics survivors were ex-
pressed in a joint resolution passed
today by the senate. The house will
take prompt action.
The resolution is the first of three
measures introduced by Senator Smith,
of Michigan, following his speech in
the senate and the presentation of his
report for the commerce committee
investigation of the Titanic disaster.
The resolution read:
"The thanks of congress are hereby
presented to Captain Arthur Henry
Rostron and through him to the Off
GERS and crew of the steamship Car
pathia of the Cunard line for prompt
ly going to the relief of the steamship
Titanic and heroically saving the lives
of 704 persons who had been ship
wrecked in the North Atlantic ocean.
THE president of the United States
is hereby authorized and requested to
cause to be made and presented to
Captain Rostron a suitable gold medal
appropriately inscribed, which shall
express the high estimation in which
congress holds the service of this Off
Ger to whose promptness and vigilance
was due the rescue of STA women and
children and $50 men.
THE sum of $1,000, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary for the
purchase and manufacture of said
medal, is hereby appropriated out of
any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated"
The two measures were introduced
and referred to the commerce COM
mittee. One was a bill requiring that
every steel ocean or coastwise sea-
going steam vessel and every
steel steam vessel navigating the
great lakes carrying 100 or more pas
seneers must have "a water tight skin
inboard from the forward collision
bulkhead of not less than two thirds
of the length of the vessel and the
bulkheads so spaced that any two ad-
jacent compartments may be flooded
without destroying the floatability or
of the vessel"
Every ocean going or coast wise
steam vessel navigating between diff
ici iSit idrC poit stiiOWCu 10 carry
more than fifty passengers must have
on board lifeboats of an aggregate
carrying capacity computed in cubic
feet equal TO ten times the total num-
Der of her crew plus the total num-
Der of passengers. There are minute
details of technical requirements as
to the efficiency of the lifeboats.
Every vessel. except river craft.
would have To carry one life preserver
for each person allowed to be carried
on that vessel including the crew.
Every steamer must have lfeboats,
floats, RATS life preservers, line car
rying projectiles and drags to secure
the safety of all aboard in case of dis
aster. At least four members OF the
crew must be assigned to each life
boat and drill at stated intervals.
A resolution introduced would pro-
vide for the creation of a commission
under a $4,000 appropriation for ex-
penses, to investigate the laws and
regulations relating to construction.
equipment and navigation OF vessels
and to report to congress through the
president, its findings and recommel-
dations together with a draft of legis-
lation and regulation it shall propose
by January 1. 1919.