The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-05-02
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Senate Investigation of Titanic
Disaster May Continne for
Two Weeks More.

4uiTeu 10 HnlSn the senate 1nVoStlga-
ton of the Titanic disaster.
The hearings have been replete
with dramatic testimony, including the
simple stories of some of the seamen.
They told of music, gay dinner par
ties, happiness and laughter on that
peaceful Sabbath night aboard the I'll
tanic, and then shifted to tales of
death and suffering on the frozen mid
might sea.
Amid the preeminent facts the COM
mittee has been told tales of heroism
unsurpassed in marine annals.
Little incidents of the last moments
of Major Archibald Butt, Isidor Straus,
other notables who lost their lives on
the Inflated ship made deep impress
sion.
Captain Moore, of the steamer
Mount Temple related the wireless
record of the last words flashed by the
Titanic to many ships, and told how,
only 40 miles away, he approached to
within IA miles, only to find himself
barricaded behind mountains of ice.
Titanic Commander "Most UnWise."
Captain Moore denounced as most
unwise" the action of the Titanic's
commander in rushing at 81 knots
through the night, when he had been
dvyic Of hn a n 1Cn nYO.
phatic in his assertion that the posi-
ton sent out by the Titanic was
wrong. He said the ship was eight
miles further eastward than it's oper-
ators reported.
= Ablaze with light from her salon
and cabins, the Titanic dashed full
speed to her destruction, according to
Ernest Gill; donkey engineman on
the steamship Californian. He said
that Captain Stanley Lord, of the Cal
ifornian, refused later to go to the aid
could be plainly seen.
Captain Lord entered a sweeping de-
NAL of Gill's accusations and read ex-
tracts from the Californian's log that
support his contention. Captain Lord
said that If the ships wireless oper-
ator had been on duty he would have
caught the Titanic's signals, and that
it would have taken about two hours
to reach the Titanics position.
Was Makinq % Knots.
The committee has developed that
the Titanic rushed at a 23-knot gait
through a vast field of ice, apparently
needless of warnings. Other testi-
mony indicates many vessels were
within few miles of the sinking liner,
but their wireless operators were
asleep. Her rockets were seen but ig-
nored. Vice-President Franklin has
united he heard the rumor of the
disaster over 16 hours and received
positive confirmation from the steam
er Olympic over six hours before he
felt the news sufficiently authentic"
to disclose it to the relatives of the Tt
tanic's passengers and the public.
Eu opeans Send Warships to Mexico.
AS a direct result of a decision
reached by President Taft at cabinet
meeting, not to send warship to pro-
tect American and other foreign citi-
zens in Mexico, but to send a trans
port instead, the British, French and
German governments are rushing
cruisers across the Atlantic. Japan
will also send warships to protect her
citizens.
1t has been pointed out by President
Taft that any form Of intervention
would be followed by slaughter OF
LIE American and Other foreign citi-
Zens.
Banks Are Inquired Into.
AS the first step in the money trust
investigation, the committee on bank
ing and currency announced that 1t
had sent to more than 10000 banks a
request for detailed information on all
phases of their business and their re-
lations with other institutions.
The committee has embraced M
tional, state, private and savings
banks in it's inquiry, as we'll as loan
and trust companies. Reports are
asked for showing conditions at the
close of business April go.
National Capital Brevities
There are in the United States, &C
cording to the census report, 1851, 502
farms, containing total of S78,798,0OO
acres, of which 47S,452,OO0 acres are
improved
The senate bill appropriating ST.
sec, 900 to repair the crevasses in the
broken levess of the Mississippi river
and it's tributaries was passed by the
house.
No more copper pennies will be
coined if the Buckley bill, providing
three-cent pieces, becomes a law In
stead there will be one-cent pieces
which will be composed of an alloy