LIFEBOAT QUESTION.
INDIGNATION IN AMERICA, BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE. (Rec. April IS, 11.5 p.m.) New York, April 18. The Senate lias adopted a resolution demanding a comprehensive investigation into the disaster. Some of the survivors will be immediately summoned to Washington to give evidence regarding the inability of the officers to savo the lives of all aboard. A Bill has been introduced in the Senate prohibiting liners from entering or clearing United States ports without sufficient life-saving apparatus to accommodate all passengers. The Bill has been referred to the Merchant llariuo Committee. The chairman of the committee stated that evidently lifeboats took up too much room, and tho companies were chasing the Almighty Dollar. The yellow press hotly attacks tho White Star management, and criticises the regulations of the English authorities. » Tho steamship owners bitterly rosent the. comments, and cast blame upon those demanding luxuries encroaching upon tho life-boats' spaoe.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1418, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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