Arizona republican., 1912-04-30
REPORT WILL SOON BE MADE BY SENATORS Committee Investigating Iii tanic Disaster Almost
 Through With
 Work. WIRELESS MEN
 WERE DERELICT Evidence Seems to Indicate That News of Dis
 aster Was Held
 Back
WIRELESS MEN
 WERE DERELICT
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 WASHINGTON, April 29--After a day of discussion intended to discover needed reform in the use of wireless telegraphy at sea, the senate com mittee Investigating the Titanic dis aster reached the final stage in the inquiry today. Tomorrow the off cers and crew of the sunken ship will be released and will be free to return to their homes. At the same time J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine will be quizzed to his ideas of regu- lations to make d repetition of the disaster impossible.
 It was clear early in the hearing that the committee had made up its mind to advocate legislation prevent ing wireless operators on shipboard from holding back details of disasters. Marconi and Sammis both acknowl- edged mistake had been made in sending messages to operators Bride and Cottam on board the Carpathia not to give out anything until they had seen Marconi and Sammis ashore. Frederick NJ. Sammis, chief engineer of the American Marconi company. took the stand when MarcOni was eX- cuseJ He resented bitterly the i'm putatiOn that lie had been caught sup pressing news from the Carpathia be cause of which. he said. ais neighbors are pointing the finger of scorn at him. He said he told the Carpa- thias wireless operators to hold their personal stories for sale, in order to furnish reward for them. T did not send the messages directly" said Sammis T telephones MT Davidson, in charge Of the wireless and instruct ] ed him to tell the boys arrangements were made to care for them. thought it would brace them up.' Sammis said arrangements to ''care l for the operators were made by Marconi and Bottomly. the general manager and that he merely carried out the plan as described. The wit ness acknowledged probably a 'mis- l take" has been made in the manner | in which the stories were placed. T think it would have been much bet | ter to place them with the ''Associat- 1 ed Press" he said They then I would have had general circulation and there would have been no sore
 
 toes
 Sammis said the international tele I graph code users have already gone on record as putting news dispatch es last in the list of wireless as to ] precedence. Sammis declared BrTle and Cottam, operators on the Carpa- 1 thia, should not have been blamed { for not sending news from the ship l If there was any blame,' said Sam nis. it should be on the captain ot 1 the Carpathia. The captain of the ship censors all wireless messages l sent from his ship. Operators are there to send and receive. They senJ
 nothing the captain does not pass on,' Sammis said American wireless opera
 tors on board ship receive $45 . month. English operators get fou' i pounds a month
 P A. S Franklin, after consulta- tions with Ismay, addressed the com l mittee. He said: T want to say or
 behalf of MT. Ismay for the Inter
 national Mercantile Marine, for the
 White star Line and for myself tha-
 personally that We absolve all tele- l graph, wireless and cable companies l from withholding from the committee any message sent or received Tn con
 nectfon with the disaster.
 Harold Bride, surviving operator on the Titanic, was recalled He was 1 first asked how much he receive,
 for selling the story of his experience | on the wreck to d New York paper He said he got $1,00O.